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First, let me thank Roos for her hard work behind the scenes and on our thread in planning and getting our Freeper convention organized and off the ground. It's no easy task, as most of you realize. She's doing a fabulous job.

Second, it's not a good idea to combine our convention with another event going on simultaneously. Why have the convention at all if it's going to be truncated during the day with our attendees leaving Roos' planned agenda events for a rally miles away?

We have to have priorities. AT LAST we have a regional freeper event where we can greet, meet and discuss issues and actions among ourselves. While the Tea Party is of great importance, the solution that is best for everything and everybody is to have our convention on a different date than the rally.

We can publicize the rally on FR and those who wish to go "tea-bagging" on whatever day it's being held can do so and help make an impact crowd-wise. A number of our Orlando freepers are helping out with the Tea Party rally, also.

Likewise, the Freeper convention should be OUR day with the time devoted to OUR concerns, issues, input, debates, solutions, networking and socializing. I know this is why I'm attending.

I'm not interested in attending a lakeside-park rally, walking and standing forever, perhaps in inclement weather ON THE SAME DAY AS OUR CONVENTION.

We can do the most justice to both events if they are on separate days and don't inadvertantly become morphed into one.

Travel distance and financial concerns enter into the equation as far as attending both events in different time periods, to be sure. But sometimes, choices have to be made 'cause life isn't always fair.

Everyone concerned with planning successful conservatives events anywhere across the fruited plain work hard and they do the very best they can despite date conflicts and other glitches that come up.

Leni