Sunday, March 26, 2006
More thoughts on Denver 4th night proposal
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In the previous post, I wrote that Denver is reported to be considering proposing holding the last night of the convention, when the nominee speaks, at a different location than the previous 3 nights. I thought this was a crazy idea for the Denver bid from a logistical and cost viewpoint.
However, a source has told me that Dean has been dropping hints that he would like some sort of “public event” to close the convention week, which could, logically, be the nominee acceptance speech. (It could also just be a big rally the next day). So we may see all the cities come up with proposals like this, and my comment earlier saying “don’t blame Dean for this” may have been premature.
And maybe there is a method to the madness. I understand that the goal is to get people to watch and listen to the speech on Thursday night, so maybe doing something “different” is the right approach. We shall see…
Posted by Matt at 11:38 PM 
As a person who believes that conventions should go back to the way they were before the DNC’s McGovern-Fraser Commission, I think this is horrendous! I’ve never been fortunate enough to be a delegate, but that is a right for them to hear the candidate speak. I understand the need for other people to listen in as well, but come on Howard….
Conventions are supposed to be about the political elites, or at least they should be. There has always been a large send off the next day as the candidates go off on their tour. I think the convention should be in one hall, only open to the delegates, and everyone else should be tuned in from home if they want to listen.
Does anyone know where I can find a listing of my DNC members or someone else I can vent to about this? I want some answers!
The bottom line is that it is nothing but a positive thing for Denver to make multiple facilities available. Chairman Dean and the nominee (assuming that we know the identity of the nominee well in advance of the convention) will have the final say on which facilities are actually used.
I’m much more concerned about the union hotel thing. Even if enough properties are unionized to house all of the delegates, there certainly won’t be an abundance of union hotel rooms. Therefore, the few properties that are organized will be able to demand outrageous nightly rates.
The RFP contains restrictions as to the costs of hotels. Hotels have to agree to a somewhat complicated formula to ensure that they aren’t price-gouging, and they have to agree to it right now, as a part of the bid.
Look, if we’re going to limit ourselves to cities that have an abundance of union hotels, we are going to be stuck choosing from four or five cities without reaching out to the rest of America. That’s just wrong. Instead of using this as a reason to complain about one city’s (actually, the vast majority of cities on the 11-city list have the same union hotel problems) lack of union hotels, let’s see this as an opportunity to push unionization of hotels in cities that don’t have many unionized hotels.
i think there is a difference with a city with an ‘abundance’ of hotels versus a city with ONE unionized hotel…
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