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ACORN's Tent City was impressive; right by the major highway, Republican delegates coming in from the airport couldn't fail to notice the gospel tents, huge "Reagan-buster" signs, and people milling about from the ice-machines to the shade and back. The heat was so bad, that some of the older people from other parts of the country, not used to Texas heat, had medical problems. But there were not many of them, and the others who were well continued to chant; "We're Fired Up, We're Going to Dump the Chump...
After a lawsuit and a series of tough direct actions by ACORN members, the city settled out of court for a campsite a mile from the Convention Center, beside the major highway used by delegates coming from the airport to Dallas. In addition, the city agreed to set up showers, toilets, and running water for the campers. Not quite the fancy Anatole Hotel, but bearable...
Mornings from my hotel room, I would watch the city get in gear before sunrise, the office buildings still lit from the night, while chains of cars rolled quickly along the curving highway with their headlights shining. You do feel the confidence. I'll tell you my strongest memory, though. One morning at Market Hall, where the convention had its gift bazaar, a man mistook a glass wall for an open door and crashed straight into it. The window exploded all over him. I held his face to assess the damage, but he got off lucky: shaken up, with...
...first week passed peacefully, with a swath of petty arrests and just one momentary scare: a security guard aboard an athletes' shuttle bus radioed that they were being followed by a suspicious car. In swooped the highway patrol and a sheriffs helicopter. The lawmen arrested a man, who explained his cache of weapons and explosives by describing himself as "a warrior of the people" and voluntary protector of the athletes. He was held for psychiatric evaluation...
With an emergency at hand, the state spent $21 million to raise the interstate highway at the south end of the lake and another $50 million to clean up damaged Salt Lake City. Companies operating at waterside constructed dikes to protect their faculties...