{"id":12636,"date":"2012-08-29T18:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T23:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=12636"},"modified":"2012-08-29T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T23:58:46","slug":"rnc-convention-tue-aug-28-afternoon-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/08\/rnc-convention-tue-aug-28-afternoon-session\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Convention Tue
Aug 28 Afternoon Session"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive to the LEHIGH ACRES GAZETTE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

by: Dick Allen,\u00a0Political Analyst, of Chicago, IL<\/p>\n

With the banging of the gavel promptly\u00a0at 2 PM Tuesday afternoon the 40th\u00a0Republican National Convention was REALLY<\/strong> called to order!<\/p>\n

I found myself surrounded by more than 1500 credentialed news media people from all over the world! Television, radio, newspapers of all kinds, and here I was consulting for an online<\/strong> newspaper called the LEHIGH ACRES GAZETTE<\/em>, wherever and whatever that was. Well, I found out that\u00a0Mitt\u00a0Romney had actually already visited\u00a0this small community In Southwest Florida during the foreclosure crisis. I say small,\u00a0however the\u00a0publisher told me\u00a0Lehigh had 85,000 residents, and\u00a0last month The Gazette was viewed\u00a0nearly one million times! So, being impressed, I took the assignment. A Chicago political analyst coming to Florida to cover the National Republican Convention, I simply couldn’t pass this up!<\/p>\n

First, some convention facts. Florida has hosted\u00a0the RNC three times in the past with the most recent being\u00a01972 in Miami Beach. It’s expected that more than 50,000 people will participate before the convention\u00a0is over with delegates attending from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and 5 U.S. territories. The Tampa Bay\u00a0Times Forum can seat 20,000\u00a0people, there will be 4411 delegates, and as I mentioned earlier 15,000\u00a0credentialed Media Representatives will be roaming all over.<\/p>\n

And\u00a0now for the\u00a0Gazette’s readers my first installment:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The afternoon session was filled with a large number of great one-liners from people I hardly have ever heard about. This\u00a0made me\u00a0really anticipate the evening session with speakers that I knew something about. Sharon Day, Co-Chair RNC Called November’s election “The most important election of our Country’s<\/span> lifetime!” A unique perspective indeed. I Missed Who said\u00a0that Obama had never made a payroll, made a budget,\u00a0ran a\u00a0company, or even seen the inside of a lemonade stand.\u00a0I’ll watch the TV replays for this one as it brought the house down! The\u00a0theme of this session Was We Build It<\/strong><\/em>. Speaker after speaker built on this theme. We can do better was repeated hundreds of times. “Our only\u00a0HOPE<\/strong> is to<\/strong> CHANGE<\/strong>” said\u00a0the U.S. Rep.from\u00a0SC Tim Scott, while\u00a0he dedicated a song to\u00a0our President\u00a0as he sang to the delegates “Hit the road Jack. Don’t you come back\u00a0no more, no more,\u00a0no more”.<\/p>\n

Things were moving\u00a0along\u00a0as swiftly\u00a0as the script called for until Mike\u00a0Duncan, chairman, of the Committee on Credentials gave his report. And then it happened. All the love and harmony suddenly turned into controversy. It seems too many of the delegates that I talked to\u00a0were upset over the fact that not all of the states were getting all of their delegates certified. On the floor, the vote to except the Committee report sounded like\u00a0it didn’t pass. My colleagues in the balcony told me the vote sounded too close to call. However, the chair ruled that it had passed<\/strong> which quickly brought about much unrest. For nearly 30 minutes speakers were interrupted with shouts of “point of order”\u00a0while\u00a0Speaker John Bonner simply was\u00a0deaf to their cries. But he wasn’t deaf enough to\u00a0ask them to be courteous to the following speakers,\u00a0he just couldn’t hear\u00a0their cries for a “point of order” to be called. The of power of the gavel is tremendous thing!<\/p>\n

Piece subsided as the official convention photograph was\u00a0taken. Unfortunately I’m not in it, or maybe that’s me, the tiny dot on the very top left\u00a0corner of the photograph. In any event\u00a0I’m showing it\u00a0to my wife and telling her that is me<\/strong> and I just didn’t go to Florida to get\u00a0a suntan…thank you hurricane Ivan!<\/p>\n

Nominating speeches followed with the Honorable John Sununu from New Hampshire,\u00a0Barbara Comstock from Virginia, and Ron Kaufman\u00a0an adviser to the Romney Campaign\u00a0and Mitt Romney’s brother.<\/p>\n

The official roll call of states followed. Alabama touted three national football championships then voted for Romney. Governor Brewer Of Arizona received a standing ovation when she\u00a0introduced herself as the head of their delegation, then she cast their votes for Romney. California voted all of its hundred 172 Delegates for Romney, While Idaho boasted about being the first state to sue over\u00a0Obamacare cast all of their votes for Romney. Minnesota and Nevada\u00a0were the only\u00a0states\u00a0casting more votes for Rand Paul\u00a0\u00a0than for\u00a0Romney. New Jersey hand the privilege of casting 50 votes for Romney putting the vote total “over the top” thus assuring that Romney would be the official candidate of the Republican Party. As if there was any doubt, Speaker Bonner announced a total of 2061 votes for Romney\u00a0and no other vote totals were given as the floor erupted with cheering, music, singing, and dancing.<\/p>\n

The Vice President nomination sailed through in less than five minutes, and once again the convention floor erupted.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0was then moved by a young black lady named Mia Love who is\u00a0the mayor of Saratoga Springs, UT and a candidate for Senate\u00a0there. I understood if she gets elected she would become the first black woman senator In Washington D.C.. You’ll undoubtedly see\u00a0and here her on television\u00a0as she blew the delegates away\u00a0and I am\u00a0certain\u00a0her future is bright in the Republican Party. After a couple videos, and\u00a0a couple more speakers, the afternoon session ended. The delegates were told to take the next 45 minutes off\u00a0….as the evening session would start at 7:15 PM. Good luck!<\/p>\n

See you then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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