Shirley does Denver
August 25, 2008 at 10:41 am by Scott Henry in NewsAtlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin is out of town again this week, but this time John Sugg won’t need an open-records request to find her. She’s in Denver, of course, serving as one of the co-chairs of the Democratic National Convention. Last night, she was on hand in the Mile High City to kick off the ceremonies with her two co-chairs, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and Texas Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, who were joined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
I’ll leave it to the Hillary-ites to point out the irony of having an all-female chairing committee and no women on the ticket. But at least the Dems finally agreed to seat Florida and Michigan delegates with full voting privileges, so no hard feelings, hmm?
Anyway, if you’d like to follow Shirley’s adventures in Denver, or simply follow the convention action on a minute-by minute basis, we recommend you check out the Demver blog set up by Denver alt-weekly Westword. They’ve got a fresh interview with Herroner, in which she opines on Howard Dean’s “50-state strategy” and about Georgia as a potential swing state:
“In my home state of Georgia, there’s a sense that well, a Democrat can’t win here competitively, can’t be competitive on the national level. Well, we’ve seen in our lives, we had a president from this state in our lifetime, in the 70s. The state supported Clinton in his first election and was very close in the second election. So there’s no question, just a few years ago, it was competitive. So I think it’s a mistake [to write off Georgia].”
Also, you can see follow developments on the official convention website (beware copycat sites that reroute you to online shopping or can crash your browser), or at Politics West, an all-DNC-all-the-time site maintained by the Denver Post. And, because is one of the few major cities left in America with two competing daily newspapers, you can compare this coverage with that offered by the Rocky Mountain News.
Finally, political junkies will probably thrive on the detailed coverage provided by the year-old online political journal, Politico. Happy convening!
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