Bham Dropped as Possible 2016 DNC Site
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Not surprised in the least. I never did think the democrat party would have it's convention in the middle of fly-over country.
I applaud Birmingham for giving it a shot, but it was a long shot at best. The politics of Alabama aside, the city of Birmingham doesn't have the infrastructure to host a major political party convention. (I'd say the same if they were going for the Republican convention).
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This just in: Germans bomb Pearl Harbor.
Hmmmm...lets see....
1. Red state with, absent the proverbial pictures with a dead girl or a live boy, exactly zero chance of going blue.
2. Even if, on the once-in-several lifetimes chance of a GOP blunder big enough to swing the state, the Dems somehow win, the state still carries only 8 (9?) electoral votes.
3. No venue anywhere near large enough to host-- unless you count Legion Field.
3A. Nowhere near enough hotel rooms, telecom infrastructure, entertainment, etc., etc., ad infinitum, to accommodate.
4. Historically corrupt government.
5. Historically inept government.
6. Coming off what was at the time the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
7. The only things Birmingham is world class in are (1) buffoons in elected office, and (2) quality of the top few restaurants.
Birmingham should count itself lucky it didn't even make the first cut. Had it won the DNC, the rest of the country would have been laughing itself speechless for decades.
I know. I live in the burbs of Birmingham.
Hmmmm...lets see....
1. Red state with, absent the proverbial pictures with a dead girl or a live boy, exactly zero chance of going blue.
2. Even if, on the once-in-several lifetimes chance of a GOP blunder big enough to swing the state, the Dems somehow win, the state still carries only 8 (9?) electoral votes.
3. No venue anywhere near large enough to host-- unless you count Legion Field.
3A. Nowhere near enough hotel rooms, telecom infrastructure, entertainment, etc., etc., ad infinitum, to accommodate.
4. Historically corrupt government.
5. Historically inept government.
6. Coming off what was at the time the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history.
7. The only things Birmingham is world class in are (1) buffoons in elected office, and (2) quality of the top few restaurants.
Birmingham should count itself lucky it didn't even make the first cut. Had it won the DNC, the rest of the country would have been laughing itself speechless for decades.
I know. I live in the burbs of Birmingham.
8. Can you imagine the (unpaid) water and sewage bills that the DNC would have produced?
#9. Can you imagine all the vendors that would have gone unpaid for supplying their products and services at the DNC?
Do you think the black community will feel now dissed and try to burn downtown Birmingham? (We should be so lucky :wink
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I guess the Democrats can kiss all hopes of carrying Alabama in the 2016 Pres election good-bye.
Kinda like the Republicans carrying Minnesota in 2008.
Kinda like the Republicans carrying Minnesota in 2008.
I think they ought to hold it in Ferguson, MO. I mean, that's their voter base anyway. Besides, I'm sure Ferguson could use the economic boost and Hillary can blame the woes of the inner city on the Republican Congress.
That article notes that the DNC eval committee will provide Bham with what it saw as Bham's shortcomings wrt it's ability to host a major event such as a political convention. So the attempt wasn't a total bust.
That in itself may give Mayor Bell some additional leverage as he tries to improve the city. that's in sharp contrast to Langford's Olympic bid--he coughed up $250,000 to make the bid, and in return got little more than howls of derisive laughter--which was precisely what he deserved.
You could spend a lot less than $275,000 of my money (I'm a Birmingham resident) to find out what improvements Birmingham needed to host a sizable convention. No, this was done for sole purpose of Bell's and the Council's ego and schmoozing with the DNC elite. No one with a straight face can tell me they would have went after another (more plausible) convention with such vigor.
Three glaring issues I see:
1) More hotel rooms (downtown - Hoover doesn't count)
2) Reliable taxi service
3) Strip clubs
That's a trick question. No one with an ounce of sense would be caught in downtown Birmingham at night.
Depends on how you define both "downtown" and "night."
I can show you a lot of entertainment areas between Highland Avenue and the Uptown area that are safe as your mother's arms before about 9:00 PM.
True, as it gets later, the safe areas shrink. After midnight, it's iffy unless you're parked within 30 yards of your point of departure.
Between 2:00 AM and 6:30 AM or so, even that no longer applies. After about 6:30AM, the bad guys are generally in bed or jail, and the cycle begins again.
Which further magnifies the reasons that Birmingham was rejected as a DNC site.
Quantity and quality. Attendees like to have some extracurricular activity when they are away from home
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