The Convention Cometh
May. 12th, 2004 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redthroatedloonThe Republicans are coming to town at the end of August, and the newspapers are already covering the movements of this exotic and interesting life form.
(I shouldn't be sarcastic. After all, there are quite a few Republicans in New York City -- most of them in Staten Island, but a few in Manhattan and the other boroughs. I've even met a few, and I've got one good friend who says her husband is a Republican, although they live in New Jersey, so I'm not sure it counts. Anyway...)
New York Newsday reports today that the GOP is planning to hire shuttle buses to take delegates between their hotels and Madison Square Garden. This wouldn't be that big a deal, normally -- after all, you don't want a bunch of out-of-towners wandering haplessly around the subway system, and most trade shows offer shuttle services to their attendees without comment -- but since a few months ago when the Republicans suggested that they might find a cruise ship more comfortable than a NYC hotel, the papers have latched on any suggestion that New Yorkers are being scorned.
Meanwhile, there was a bit of a fuss when the GOP advertised for volunteers to help guide delegates around the city, and rumors went around that protest organizations were sending members to volunteer. "Yes, sir. You want to visit the Empire State Building? Just take this subway here, the A train, yes sir, and take it uptown until you reach 110th St....")
(I shouldn't be sarcastic. After all, there are quite a few Republicans in New York City -- most of them in Staten Island, but a few in Manhattan and the other boroughs. I've even met a few, and I've got one good friend who says her husband is a Republican, although they live in New Jersey, so I'm not sure it counts. Anyway...)
New York Newsday reports today that the GOP is planning to hire shuttle buses to take delegates between their hotels and Madison Square Garden. This wouldn't be that big a deal, normally -- after all, you don't want a bunch of out-of-towners wandering haplessly around the subway system, and most trade shows offer shuttle services to their attendees without comment -- but since a few months ago when the Republicans suggested that they might find a cruise ship more comfortable than a NYC hotel, the papers have latched on any suggestion that New Yorkers are being scorned.
Meanwhile, there was a bit of a fuss when the GOP advertised for volunteers to help guide delegates around the city, and rumors went around that protest organizations were sending members to volunteer. "Yes, sir. You want to visit the Empire State Building? Just take this subway here, the A train, yes sir, and take it uptown until you reach 110th St....")
