Guest blogging the DNC: Joel McNally
Wisconsin’s delegation to the Democratic National Convention may party just as hard as most Charlotte conventioneers but it has this rather startling custom of beginning each day with a 7 a.m. breakfast with speakers firing up bleary activists. The millionaires at the Republican convention probably had a little gift-wrapped enthusiasm delivered to their luxury suites.
Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, and cross-border neighbor Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar hit many of the women’s health and respect issues that somehow didn’t make the Tampa agenda.
State Sen. Matt Miller and State Rep. Peter Barca, Democratic leaders of the Wisconsin legislative battles against Scott Walker’s dismantling the state’s progessive legacy, were cheered for their valiant resistance.
Barca described the Republican convention as “talkin’ trash, talkin’ to chairs, talkin’ in tongues.”
Milwaukee Congresswoman Gwen Moore will be a featured speaker at the Democrats’ opening session Tuesday night. Moore speaks several languages including street, so it should be more coherent and a lot more honest than anything uttered last week.