Posted on 12/15/2003 12:05:27 PM PST by Jhensy
THE Republicans will announce plans for their convention Tuesday, when they give a tour of the Farley Post Office, the stately New York building where 15,000 journalists will be ensconced early next September. It will be connected to the convention at Madison Square Garden by a temporary bridge spanning Eighth Avenue, to be built at a cost of $1 million.
Without seeing the plans, it is safe to make one prediction: the Republican planners cannot possibly be in worse shape than the Democrats.
Democrats have always been known for chaotic conventions, but this year they are outdoing themselves. Officials in the host city, Boston, have been feuding with national party officials over who makes which decisions and who comes up with what money.
The resulting disorganization and lack of money became embarrassingly clear this month when the Democrats held what was billed as a "walk-through" of the convention facilities. Some 200 television, radio and print journalists journeyed to the Fleet Center hoping to plan their convention coverage.
Instead, they were treated to glazed and jelly doughnuts, speeches about the virtues of grass-roots Democrats and the evils of Republicans, and an amateur ice show. And that was about it.
Party officials offered the audience basic diagrams of the inside of the arena. But rather than a walk-through, officials provided a talk-through of the possible press facilities, since Democrats still were not sure whether it would be in an office building a block or two away, in tents outside the hall or, most glorious of all, down in the bowels of the parking garage.
How true, LOL.
They want to run a country and they can't even run an errand!
Who's ready for a good old fashioned political convention ???You mean like their last political rally 2 years ago?!:
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