City Looks At Hosting Democrats' Convention

[baybook]

Originally Posted by Constitutionalist

well i can say this can charlotte handle something on the scale of the 9/12 event held in dc. That event was huge while the media was caught off guard and they wanted to down play it for their political agenda the 9/12 rally they only estemated it at 75,000. well i believe it was the university of kansas got a hold of satelite pictures of dc on 9/12 and they estimated it at 1.5-1.7 million people.
With that said can charlotte handle the possible influx of 1-3 million protesters? now theese type of protesters aka the tea party protesters are a peaceful bunch of folks so i would not expect any problems out of them its just where the heck would that many people go to protest near the center city where would they park their cars? ect.

sorry, but your figures are wrong. There were not 1.5 million folks in DC for the tea party events. ;-)

[brokensky]

Originally Posted by baybook

sorry, but your figures are wrong. There were not 1.5 million folks in DC for the tea party events. ;-)

Regardless, Charlotte can't handle that many people flocking in and businesses would suffer.

But I think the perfect solution to demonstrate how competent our leadership is around here is to do something ignorant like hold the DEM convention here (or any other convention of that size). The ensuing mess would guarantee that this city figured out that competency trumps PR, hoopla, empty promises and Spin every time.

Some folks have to learn the hard way.