When is it going to be? I’m going to the Norman Parathyroid Center for an operation sometime, dunno when, but I really don’t want to run into those idiots whenever I’m down there.
The convention starts August 27, 2012.
So you know the whole area will be a mess for weeks around that date.
They are expecting thousands and thousands of protesters.
Planning for Republicans' Tampa party well under wayTAMPA — Think of hosting an event as big as the Super Bowl. Now multiply that by four or five.
That's pretty much what we're looking at with the 2012 Republican National Convention. It will be the biggest event ever held in Tampa Bay.
Fifty thousand guests, delegates and dignitaries packing every major hotel within 35 minutes of downtown Tampa over four days. Fifteen thousand journalists from around the world and potentially more than 10,000 protesters. More than 1,000 breakfasts, lunches, receptions and blowout bashes at venues from Ybor City to downtown St. Petersburg. A security zone like the area has never seen.
"We're talking about a Super Bowl on steroids," said Santiago Corrada, who is coordinating convention planing for the city of Tampa. "We're talking about five Super Bowls on four to five consecutive days."
Sixteen months before the big week — the one starting Aug. 27, 2012 — plenty of people are getting ready.