{"id":10420,"date":"2010-04-29T19:29:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T00:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:32:32","slug":"liveblogging-the-gop-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10420","title":{"rendered":"Liveblogging The GOP Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11:55 &#8211; I voted.\u00a0 And now I have to head home.\u00a0 Back tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>11:21 &#8211; First ballot in for Auditor.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conlon (who dropped out during his speech) &#8211; 5<\/li>\n<li>Wiita &#8211; 327<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert &#8211; 548<\/li>\n<li>Anderson &#8211; 860<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1078 are required to get the endorsement.\u00a0 Rumor has it that Wiita is a friend of Gilbert&#8217;s.\u00a0 You do the math.\u00a0 This could be a long night.<\/p>\n<p>11:08 &#8211; We&#8217;re informed the Auditor results are coming.\u00a0 Soon.\u00a0 Still debating picayune resolutions &#8211; the bane of these proceedings.\u00a0 &#8220;a resolution in favor of a constitutional form of money&#8221;.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re talking about.<\/p>\n<p>10:59 &#8211; Waiting on the auditor vote to come in.\u00a0 And waiting.\u00a0 They&#8217;re debating resolutions right now.<\/p>\n<p>10:30 &#8211; Finally back.\u00a0 I appeared with Marty Owings on KFAI.\u00a0 Then I had to dash back to my district to vote for State Auditor.\u00a0 We&#8217;re waiting for the results&#8230;and there&#8217;s Kohls with the gavel.<\/p>\n<p>9:21 &#8211; Pat is on now.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been called to do a standup with KFAI.\u00a0 Switch to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eckernet.com\">Eckernet <\/a>for updates for the next few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>9:16 &#8211; We&#8217;ll start the speeches for Auditor now.\u00a0 Watching the Anderson video now.<\/p>\n<p>8:57 &#8211; Motion on the floor to unanimously endorse Chris Barden.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll make a great replacement for Lori Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>8:54 &#8211; The convention has unanimously endorsed Severson to run for Secretary of State.<\/p>\n<p>8:49 &#8211; Sorry &#8211; I&#8217;ve been talking with Tim Burke.\u00a0 Dan Severson is on stage.\u00a0 I believe he&#8217;s running unopposed for Secretary of State.\u00a0 Huge crowd of red-clad sign waving supporters onstage.<\/p>\n<p>8:12 &#8211; Lee Byberg on the stage.\u00a0 Endorsed candidate for CD7 &#8211; Collin Peterson&#8217;s district.\u00a0 He&#8217;s got a thick Norwegian accent; I did not know this.\u00a0 <em>Him, <\/em>I gotta book on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the American dream!\u00a0 Have you ever heard of the German dream?\u00a0 The French dream?\u00a0 even the Norwegian dream?\u00a0 Let me tell you, they\u00a0 <em>have <\/em>those dreams.\u00a0 They&#8217;re in America!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are born American; it&#8217;s time to recommitt ourselves to the American spirit &#8211; to be come twice as committed to the American dream!\u00a0 This is my story!\u00a0 Our goal is not just to beat Colin Peterson &#8211; but to win the next generation!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Byberg is tearing it up; Norwegians and &#8220;inspirational speaking&#8221; aren&#8217;t necessarily synonymous, but he&#8217;s got the mojo.\u00a0 Saying all the right things to whip up the crowd.\u00a0 After that rules debate, it&#8217;s nice to have the crowd whipped up.<\/p>\n<p>8:06 &#8211; &#8220;Here&#8217;s a Constitution; it&#8217;s what I expect you to hold me and all of Congress to!\u00a0 And once we do that, we will get the budget under control!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>8:04 &#8211; Jeff Johnson introduces Teresa Collette, St. Thomas law professor, endorsed to take on the &#8220;somewhat less brilliant&#8221; Betty McCollum.<\/p>\n<p>7:59 &#8211; Pat Anderson is a row ahead, talking with (I think ) Bill Salisbury.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to try to scrag an interview with her.<\/p>\n<p>7:55 -By the way &#8211; yeah, it&#8217;s white in here.\u00a0 Just like a good chunk of Minnesota.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m seeing all kinds of people here; black, Asian, Latino &#8211; my Senate District has an Iranian.\u00a0 Or, as we refer to everyone, &#8220;Americans&#8221;.\u00a0 Just so we&#8217;re clear on that.<\/p>\n<p>7:54 &#8211; More rules debates.\u00a0 Chatted with Charlie Shaw, my old pal from St. Paul Legal Ledger and Politics in Minnesota.\u00a0 Looking like\u00a0 a fun night in the press pit!<\/p>\n<p>7:46 &#8211; &#8220;This is bulls**t&#8221;, says a leader from SD54.\u00a0 &#8220;They&#8217;re letting everyone talk about&#8230;roll calls?&#8221;\u00a0 They&#8217;ve spent a good 20 minutes debating the idea of the roll call&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>7:38 &#8211; I&#8217;ve just figured out why more people don&#8217;t get involved in politics; Rules Committee debate.<\/p>\n<p>7:35 &#8211; Mark Drake from the MNGOP tells us that the nominating committee has placed Emmer, Seifert, Haas, Herwig and Davis in nomination.\u00a0 Bob Carney apparently didn&#8217;t meet the threshold of signatures to make the cut.\u00a0 I had no idea he was trying.\u00a0 And I am astounded that Davis made it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>7:25 &#8211; 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