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December 20, 2006 04:22 PM UTC
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No DNC decision until after the New Year
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that the promoters of the Denver Convention are as organized as the Denver Election Commission. If Jim Taylor has been saying for the better part of the year that the Pepsi Center was a problem for his union, you would have thought that the organizers would have been trying to work something out before this.
I am not a union supporter but it seems a little silly to ignore the concerns of an organization that wholly supports your party. From the article linked above, it would seem that Mr. Taylor and the stagehands union he presides over were treated as a minor problem that could be ignored until the last minute. Most likely the organizers of the convention will have to move it to another venue or try to get the owners of the Pepsi Center to acceed to the unions demands. The first will give the appearance of a disorganized effort, the second would probably take too much time.
It is obvious that the Democratic Party is interested in taking advantage of the left turn the West took in the last election. The delay in announcing the location of the convention shows this. But how long will they wait for Denver to get its act together?
like the employees of the Pepsi Center may not want to be unionized. If Taylor had been doing his job (big “if”, I know), he would have already been making appeals to them to unionize. I can only guess they have rebuffed any overtures on his part.
Maybe they thought Taylor and his fellow union leaders would come around because they didn’t want to be held responsible for ruining Denver’s chances to get the convention.
But union leaders often don’t care about the “big picture”: they answer instead to a limited base: their local members, and especially the more vocal and radical local members who vote.
I think that’s why we had an RTD strike this year even though the strike was hugely unpopular with the public: the union leaders had a far smaller constituency they were cateringto.
This is much like partisan candidates who are forced into extreme positions during primaries and caucuses to assuage the activists within their parties, and forget about the mainstream unaffiliated voters until it’s sometimes too late.
At this point it may be impossible for Taylor and his fellow leaders to come around even if deep down they want to: they’ll get kicked out of their local offices. Poor planning by the convention promoters not to see this coming, I think (of course, with the benefit of hindsight).
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So instead of having a dry run of Vote Centers before the presidential election, the DEC has decided to do an all mail ballot election this May.
think you will see a return to vote centers in Denver any time soon.
Because of HAVA theres no way Denver will return to precinct voting.
I hadn’t heard that we were in Arapahoe County. Maybe we are exempt from HAVA…….j/k
is Arapahoe has no intention of going to Vote Centers.
HAVA does not require Vote Centers, it just requires accessability for all voters at any polling place.
one DRE voting machine at each voting location. Denver won’t pay for the near 300 of these for each precinct so they will stick to vote centers.
Buy some DRE machines or wait in line at voting centers. Sounds like a fair trade-off to me.
Last storm they put the chemicals on the road out too late.
This time they put them out over a day too early.
I was wondering why some of the roads were wet. It couldn’t have been street sweeping.
Kwitcherbellyachin’. Putting a first layer the chemicals out early didn’t cause any harm at all, other than the added expense.
This has been a storm unlike any in nearly 4 years. And we had plenty of warning from local weathercasters that “something was brewing” (to paraphrase your tag). Hope it didn’t inconvenience you too badly, but geez louise, give the Hick a break on this.
Now if the city flubs post-storm street plowing like the McNichols administration did in the ’80s, that’s another matter.
… in schoolmarm MILFs and clergy in the closet.
We had a pretty ridiculous streak going there for a while.
Fascinating how people – teen-banging schoolteachers, meth- and gay-banging clergy, online-predator Congressmen, and blowed-by-interns Presidents – somehow rationalize in their own minds that they can possibly get away with it.
Makes you question the whole notion of deterrence. These folks obviously knew the ruinous penalties for getting caught and the likelihood that they would (what teen boy isn’t going to brag to SOMEONE about boinking the hot teacher?), but they still did it anyway.
there were two teachers who had sex with several high school girls. It was common knowledge, at least to the students. Today these stories make national news. Students rarely, if ever, take secrets like this to the grave and the teachers who think they will are just fooling themselves. Sexual desire overrides the fear of getting caught, as the Dateline series reveals time and again.