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| Rising Convention Costs and Delays Worry Democrats | |
| 2008-07-06 | |
| For all Senator Barack Obama's success raising money and generating excitement among voters, he faces a daunting challenge as he prepares to claim the nomination in August: a Democratic convention effort marred by costly setbacks and embarrassing delays. I'm not too sure how much of a recommendation it is for a politician when the 2008 convention doesn't get put together until 2010.
When politicians are involved, the most important thing to decide is how the boodle's gonna be split. Then comes what's for lunch. After that comes what everybody else will be eating, if anything. At last count, plans to renovate the inside of the Pepsi Center for the Democrats are $6 million over budget, which may force convention planners to scale back on their original design or increase their fund-raising goals. More likely increase their fund-raising goals. The convention is being organized by the Democratic National Committee, which is run by Howard Dean, with his chief of staff, the Rev. Leah D. Daughtry, leading the effort. Only in the last month has the Obama campaign been able to take over management of the convention planning with the candidate claiming the nomination, and his aides are increasingly frustrated, as the event nears, at organizers who they believe spent too freely, planned too slowly and underestimated actual costs. The Obama campaign has dispatched 10 people to Denver to help 'get a handle on the budget and make hard decisions' about what has to be done and how to move forward, said Bill Burton, a campaign spokesman. With Democrats seeking to use the convention to move past the bitterness of their bruising primary fight, the gathering in Denver Aug. 25-28 is likely to draw intense interest as the Obama forces try to show a once-divided party rallying around the nominee. And their convention comes a week before the Minneapolis gathering of the Republicans, whose convention efforts have been much smoother. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The comments I keep hearing from Denver is that the moonbats are in control, and the stupidity quotient has to be calculated by a pair of CRAY super-computers. Not terribly surprising, especially when you factor in that both Denver and Colorado as a whole are controlled by Democrats. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-07-06 17:24 |