Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kansas City's civic leaders could hardly contain their excitement. They escorted their unsuspecting guests to the Bartle Hall convention complex, which had most recently been host to the National Water Well Association, paused, then dramatically parted a thin blue curtain. Behind it, a Democratic Convention was in boisterous progress...
Wearing campaign boaters and waving state-delegation signs, nearly 2,000 local volunteers hollered and whooped. Red, white and blue balloons dropped from the ceiling as a band played Happy Days Are Here Again. On the giant podium, a Harry Truman impersonator gave a rousing speech nominating Kansas City as...
Kansas City's mock convention was one of the more elaborate displays of civic boosterism in the rivalry to win the right to play host to the Democrats in 1988, but other eager cities have been working hard to upstage it. A Democratic Convention can bring at least 30,000...
Small wonder. Inspecting convention sites is the most popular perk in Democratic politics. Limousines pick up committee members at the airport. Sirens wailing, police motorcades escort them from location to location, local traffic be jammed. Sometimes the visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members...
The airfare, hotel rooms, sumptuous meals and gifts (everything from barbecue sauce to bathrobes) are provided by the host community. In addition, the finalists are expected to raise a total of nearly $1 million for the Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) war chest before the winning city is picked. The victor...