January 08, 2005
DNC Atlanta Report On its Way
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
I am now in North Carolina after spending the last two days in Atlanta, learning a heck of a lot about what is going on in the DNC chairs race and getting a much better personal read on the candidates, their styles, ideas, and interests.
Dean will be announcing his official candidacy on Monday; the campaign to be headed by a Tom .... from outside his Democracy for America leadership. Blanchard and supposed new entrant, Mary Beth Malcolm were absent and had no materials on their respective tables today. Mr. David Leeland of Ohio was unimpressive, had no campaign organization present, no separate "meet and greet" event during the day, and lackluster answers that added nothing that wasn't already said or represented by the current candidates.
I managed to attend all the meet and greets with the candidate, have pictures (one with Al Sharpton who attended for some reason) all of which I will post on Monday evening. In addition I will have a report on some Texas maneuvering and issues that involves Texas DNC candidates, DNC members, and the State Democratic Executive Committee.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at January 8, 2005 11:14 PM
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I'd love to have a picture taken with Al Sharpton. I can actually do a pretty good Al Sharpton impersination (voice and verbage only).
I think my fav Al Sharpton quote (from one of the early, early, early Iowa debates was (and I'm paraphrasing) "They'll ask Senator Kerry...'Senator Kerry, what's the worst maritime disaster in the history of the world,' and he'll say, 'The Titanic.' And they'll ask Senator Edwards...'Senator Edwards, how many people died on the Titanic,' and he'll say, 'More than two thousand.' Then they'll ask Al Sharpton, 'Mr. Sharpton, what are their names, addresses and phone numbers.'"
I also like his guest appearances on Boston Legal.
Ok...I actually had to scour Google to find that quote. Turns out I was slightly wrong: here's what he said, via the New York Daily news: (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/159964p-140404c.html)
"Sharpton saved his best for last, contrasting his professed approach to problems with his opponents' by preaching a miniparable on the questions that would be asked of the candidates in a maritime disaster:
'Kerry, what's the name of the ship? Edwards, how many people died? Sharpton, give me their names, addresses and phone numbers.'"
