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For the record, the Sayles Belton campaign's access to the coaches'
offices was not arranged through the City DFL Party. The coaches' offices
were not part of the space for which the Party contracted and, when we asked
about extra rooms for candidates, we were told that only two rooms were
available--the upstairs room used by the Nominating Committee in the morning
and the tellers in the afternoon, and the downstairs room next to the
Minneapolis Issues table--and the coaches' offices were never mentioned.
The Sayles Belton campaign got into the coaches' offices through a private
contact at Augsburg, about which the Arrangements Committee learned only on
the day before the Convention met.
BRM
Brian Melendez, Chair
Minneapolis DFL Party
St. Anthony West (Ward 3)
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell W Peterson
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 5/8/01 8:47 PM
Subject: [Mpls] DFL Convention Observations
In terms of the arrangements, it was completely obvious who was running this
convention. The Mayor had not only the delegates from 18 months ago before
anybody else was in the race, she also had the luxurious suite of coaches
offices right outside of the convention hall. They had privacy through
closed doors, desks, comfy chairs and who knows what else. The other
candidates were pushed in the basement in an open hallway with no privacy
whatsoever. We had to set up our own tables and scavenge chairs. There was
only one outlet and no phone jacks. And right in the middle of the voting
in the mayor's race, the rental company swept the tables out from underneath
us completely unannounced while we scurried around to find substitute tables
and running up and down flights of stairs and across long hallways to the
hall - unfair doesn't even come close to describing the
clout the Mayor had over the other candidates in this convention.
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