Friday, April 28, 2006

San Antonio drops out

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San Antonio has withdrawn its bid to host the 2008 Democratic National Convention:

San Antonio officials have ducked out of the beauty contests staged by Democrats and Republicans to determine who will host their 2008 national conventions. Continue Reading...

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Denver reception goodies

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From DemNotes, here’s a picture of the items in the gift bags given to people who came to Denver’s 2008 Democratic Convention bid party at the Spring DNC meeting. By the way, if you look closely (at DemNotes), you’ll see some Minneapolis brochures at the very top of the picture. (Or you will until Dan re-crops the picture!)

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Monday, April 24, 2006

Would Nagin’s re-election keep the convention away from New Orleans?

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I missed the significance when I wrote up Mike Littwin’s column, but this tidbit was there:

If New Orleans could be ready by 2008 for a major convention, and if New Orleans doesn’t re-elect Mayor Ray Nagin, who brings up major competence issues of his own, Democrats might not be able to resist New Orleans. Continue Reading...

Sunday, April 23, 2006

More on Denver’s party

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Dan Slater writes up Denver’s reception to promote their bid to host the 2008 Democratic Convention:

Last night here in New Orleans was a great night to be a Colorado Democrat. The Denver 2008 Host Committee sponsored a great reception here at the Sheraton in New Orleans for DNC Members. Continue Reading...

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Denver throws a party in New Orleans

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Mike Littwin at the Rocky Mountain News writes up Denver’s reception promoting its bid to host the 2008 Democratic Convention:

Denver did everything right. There was a great band. There was free food. There was free drink. There was a lot of free food. And a lot of free drink. Continue Reading...

Friday, April 21, 2006

Only Denver and Minneapolis making noise at the Spring DNC meeting

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From Dan Slater’s DemNotes:

This evening was about the Western Caucus. One of Colorado’s DNC Members, J.W. Postal, who is the Vice-Chair of the DNC’s Western Caucus, did a great job promoting Denver’s 2008 Convention bid to Westerners. At least half of the room was wearing Denver 2008 buttons — probably close to 2/3 of the room. We continue to be highly visible here in terms of promoting Denver for the 2008 convention. Only one other city is doing much in New Orleans to promote itself — Minneapolis. Both Denver and Minneapolis have booths in the registration area, and Minneapolis is hosting a breakfast for delegates on Saturday. Denver is hosting a party tomorrow (Friday) night, and the buzz has already started about how great our promotional effort has been (California’s Christine Pelosi — yes, she has a kinda’-famous mom — mentioned to me tonight that she still uses the Denver pen that we handed out in Phoenix in December). Orlando’s folks had originally scheduled a reception for this evening, but backed out of that at the last minute. Continue Reading...

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Orlando cancels reception at DNC spring meeting

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From the AP:

Also, representatives from two major cities — Denver and Minneapolis — lobbying to host the Democratic convention in August 2008 plan events to drum up support. Orlando, Fla., initially had scheduled an evening reception but canceled it before the meeting began. Continue Reading...