Tag: DNC Convention

While local and national law enforcement have flooded Denver providing security and causing concern about police brutality during this week’s Democratic National Convention, Colorado is getting some additional federal agents that will stay well after the DNC.

Nearly a year ago, Dick Wadhams, the chairman of the Republican Party of Colorado, stood at a window inside the Denver Center for Performing Arts. He was gazing out, at the sparkling nighttime panoramic of downtown Denver. “I’m just looking out — out there at the Pepsi Center — and thinking about next August,” Wadhams said, turning up a sardonic grin, “when the Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton as their candidate for president.” Wadhams is the spinmeister once dubbed “Karl Rove 2.0” for his hardball campaign tactics. He had returned home to Colorado just months before, following the stunning Macaca moment and defeat of his candidate, then-Virginia Sen. George Allen.

Quincy Lucas, a Delaware woman whose sister was murdered, delivered the vice presidential nominating speech last night, highlighting Sen. Joe Biden’s commitment to fighting violence against women.

I'm here at the Big Tent listening in on a panel discussing the "personhood" amendment that will be on the ballot in Colorado that seeks to confer constitutional rights on fertilized human eggs.

The DNC should feel like a gloried version of a congressional session, with tickets sold for astronomical sums (maybe not cash but large donations of time or valuables.) But being in the Pepsi Center this week feels more like a cross between a pep rally (which, of course, it is) and sporting event — the game before the BIG game (which, of course, it is.)

Iraq Veterans Against the War staged a protest march at the Democratic National Convention. Thousands of anti-war demonstrators were joined by members of the band Rage Against the Machine and concert-goers in a peaceful stroll from the Colorado Colosseum to the Pepsi Center. The veterans briefly blocked the delegates' entrance until an official with the Obama campaign agreed to meet with a leader of the group.

Texas Congressman Chet Edwards Wednesday introduced an emotional video about America’s veteran, touting Sen. Barack Obama as a friend to veterans, criticizing Sen. John McCain, a Vietnam veteran for his record on veteran's issues.

John Kerry came out swinging hard on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama Wednesday night, countering many of the Republican attacks that he failed to aggressively defend himself against four years ago.

While the Pepsi Center in Denver echoes with phrases like "love of country" and "only in America," and a liberal group claims 75 percent...

Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton last night from a campaign stop in Montana to thank her for her speech endorsing him, according to an Obama...