GOP Convention

[Aaron Yeater]

> Surreal moment in coverage of GOP National Convention in San Diego this 
> week:  A lottery given to determine which groups won the right to protest 
> in a distant parking lot near the GOP party gathering.  Seems that the 
> city for security reasons is specifically setting up designated places 
> for protest and one must be an authorized protestor (I can see the 
> business cards now) to be allowed to congregate in those fenced off 
> areas.  Truth better than fiction...I don't envy fiction writers today.

as long as we are sharing GOP convention stories: the Christian 
Coalition has booked hotel rooms for its various 
member-representatives and affiliated delegates.  They did so in one 
part of San Diego, a series of more or less adjacent hotels.  
unfortunate for them, and fortunate for those of us with a sense of 
humor, they booked those hotel rooms in the gay neighborhoods of San 
Diego...."Ooops..." but perhaps someone had an "alternate" agenda...
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Aaron C. Yeater
Innovations in American Government
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