DNC Convention

A year to the day before Sen. Edward Kennedy died, the ailing liberal lion made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention’s opening night in Denver. Just months after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, his voice breaking, the Massachusetts Democrat vowed he would be there on the floor of the U.S. Senate [...]

The Denver city attorney’s office dropped criminal charges Wednesday morning against a Code Pink demonstrator who was videotaped being slammed to the ground by a baton-wielding Denver Police officer during a protest at the Democratic National Convention, The Denver Post’s Howard Pankratz reports. Alicia Forrest, a 22-year-old Arizona resident, faced charges of interfering with police and could have been sentenced to a year in jail, her defense attorney said.

Troubled financial services companies took advantage of campaign finance laws that allowed unlimited donations to the summer’s Democratic and Republican national conventions to pump millions of dollars into political coffers just weeks before securing billions in federal bailout money, according to a joint analysis published Wednesday by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) and the Campaign Finance Institute (CFI).

Remember the columns arrayed behind Barack Obama the night he accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president at Invesco Field in Denver on Aug. 28? That’s right, the classical stage set widely derided by Republicans as the “Temple of Obama,” and rather pricklishly defended by Democrats who pointed to a similar set-up behind President Bush when he addressed his convention in 2004. Well, it could have been worse — a lot worse.

Step back in time to the distant past of late August.

Barely six and a half weeks ago, the Democratic National Convention had just concluded on an historic high note, the polls were tied, and we’d never heard of Troopergate, aerial wolf killing, John McCain was running an honorable campaign and the economy hadn’t yet locked up.

Protest groups are demanding Denver police halt the sale and disicpline anyone responsible for the creation of a “commemorative” DNC T-shirt distributed to officers featuring a baseball-bat wielding cop and the slogan “WE GET UP EARLY to BEAT the Crowds 2008 DNC.”

A timely dispatch from our friends at PartyTime.org.

If you haven’t been under a rock lately, you know that the Bush Administration is proposing a $700 billion bailout for Wall Street. What you might not know is that there have been 258 parties this year alone for members of the House Financial Services Committee — the very folks who are making crucial decisions about this legislation — a number of them hosted by lobbyists for the finance, insurance, and real estate industries.

Two warring riot-gear companies have declared a truce and decided to merge their fire power, according to the Denver Business Journal.

Soldiers from as far away as Georgia were stationed in Denver during the Democratic National Convention according to new information released by military officials.

Obama’s coming back to Colorado for at least three different stops on Monday and Tuesday (yup, we’re definitely a swing state folks), but not just for a huge front-range blowout like last time. Instead, Obama will head to the 3rd Congressional District with stops in Pueblo and Grand Junction Monday and then Denver the following day. As the Communications Director for John Salazar’s first run for Congress back in 2004, I think these stops are a brilliant move.

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