We were told there was a separate press entrance but good luck finding it. Of course if we took the shuttle system for delegates and press it would have gotten us right to the door, but as I live about a mile or so from Mile High and Julie and Amanda had regular tickets we couldn't go that route. So Aaron, Katie (Laughing Liberally), and I walked along the huge anaconda of a line trying to find the entrance. It wasn't long before people started yelling that we were cutting the line. They didn't care that we weren't going to the same door. I'm sure yelling just made them feel better about being in a 1-3 hour line. Interestingly a DNC staff person came and told a "real journalist" and us that we couldn't cut the line. The real journalist just about had a conniption fit. Ironically we were all of 100 feet from the security perimeter, which was the same location as the press entrance (picture above). The regular line of people still had a ways to go.
While Aaron was "stuck" on the floor all day and would lose his seat if he got up, i got a temporary pass to check things out.
Oh, and look who I ran into.
Delegates Anthony Graves and Susie McMahon
Bill Richardson is either about to wave, or do the terrorist fist bump
Degette and Pena
City Councilman Paul Lopez. I don't know Mr. Lopez very well, but his district does overlap house district 4 a little bit and we've thus been at some of the same functions together. He was instrumental in sorting out some of the craziness that was the Denver county assembly and convention.
And super delegate extraordinaire Debbie Marquez
At first I thought John Oliver was being interviewed by some press so I was going to say hi -- cause we go waaaay back. Instead he was working with the DailyShow camera crew.
I'd hate to get a connection wrong or there be a short circuit somewhere.
Not quite spaghetti, more like a series of tubes, but for people. This is the ventilation and AC system for the Big Tent.
The very coveted floor pass. Sadly I didn't get to keep this one.
After walking around all day, visiting the floor, the tiny blogger area that had more people than places to sit, I was tired so went to take my actual seat with Julie and Amanda. I had a single better ticket to sit with the Denver Dems. While it was in a 100 level section, it had a great view of the back of the stage. No thanks. Heck, later I heard the SEIU had much better seats. Hmmmm.
As the sun sets, only the secret service has higher up seats than we do.
Finally, photos from other days during the convention:
Drinking Liberally Denver's 3rd Anniversary was this Wednesday. We made it a celebration and Clinton/Biden watch fest. In addition to the chocolate fountain, we also had Laughing Liberally comedians, and the blogosphere's only progressive punk band Max and the Marginalized (and thus the best). Note, cheetos don't work so well with chocolate.
Katie Halper
Max and the Marginalized play loud! I wanted to say, "if it's too loud, you're too old!"
Baratunde did also perform at the Skylark but this photo with Daryl Hannah is far better.
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