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August 28, 2008 — computernewsandreviews
House Blend for the House Blend, Pam interviewed zoloft buy by everybody, Autumn gets a scoop
Day three of the Democratic National Convention began with Autumn and Pam joining me and my sister* Karri for breakfast at a restaurant down the block from the Big Tent. We were quite impressed with the coffee…
We left Pam at the Big Tent, for she had to give her presentation on being a straight ally. Autumn had a number of transgender activists she wanted to interview and I hustled along to be her videographer. It was a little weird that of all the panels a scheduling conflict would keep me away from, it was the one on being a straight ally.
The event Autumn and I attended was the LGBT Caucus. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom took the podium just literally minutes after learning of the death of Del Martin. He was visibly shaken and took a couple of minutes to compose himself. The room fell silent, but as Mayor Newsom spoke, he expressed the feeling of many that it was a blessing that Del was able to finally marry her partner of 5+ decades.
next, governor dean addressed the caucus. i have the whole jargon on video, which you know i can’t upload until i get my dv tapes back to the home studio. here’s a select quote:
People for a long time believed their vote didn’t matter, because politicians are all corrupt, blah blah blah. The fact of the matter is that over history that’s been proven to absolutely not be true. To absolutely not be true!
And we can kvetch, and we do, about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, and we’d like to change it and both candidates in the Democratic Party said they would.
But let’s not forget that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” at the time was an improvement over what we had before. So you need to push hard for getting everything, but by pushing hard to get everything we need to make sure we get something because we’ll take that something and the next time we’ll get something more and then after that we’re going to get something more and then we’re going to get something more and after that we’re going to get everything, and that’s how it works.
(Hmm. What a delicious bit of foreshadowing this is, in retrospect.)
In between speakers, Autumn would grab me for quick interviews with the transgender activists. I’ll let her take care of the names and topics (feel free to edit here, Autumn) because I really didn’t catch them.
Rep. Barney Frank also addressed the caucus, but I missed that speech. Later on, as most of the people were inside the ballroom listening to the speeches, Autumn and I were in the hallway doing one of these interviews. Suddenly, she taps my arm and says, “Russ, you’ve got to get this!”
…and that’s where I have to leave that discussion because a) Autumn gets the scoop and b) until I can edit the video and scrub the audio we’re embargoing the story. Stay tuned - I get home Sunday and this will be the first video I edit and post. Let’s just say I captured a provocative conversation with someone on his controversial stance on a complicated civil rights issue. (And damn me for bringing a digital video tape camera with no way of capturing the digital video to my laptop!)
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