Per a McClatchy report, Elizabeth Hanford Dole, North Carolina’s Class II senator, will not come to our city for the Republican National Convention. She says she needs to be in North Carolina running for reelection. This is certainly a plausible possibility, but it is still pretty rare for somebody so high-ranking and who is presumably in good standing with both party and public to skip a party’s national convention.
Meantime, the man who would be third in line to the presidency were the Republicans still in the Senate’s majority, Alaska’s Ted Stevens is still expected to attend even though he faces legal problems.
And, although I don’t know that he won’t be here, Iowa’s Charles Grassley will not be in his state’s delegation. Even though his conservatism seems beyond challenge, his state party would not give him a seat, apparently deciding that, however politically and religiously conservative the senator is that his investigation of televangelists getting wealthy makes him unworthy.
Meanwhile, it appears that there may be less opportunity for our guests to enjoy themselves during the show. It has been reported that nobody has applied for a 4 o’clock liquor license. Everybody else has to sacrifice for the RNC. Why not the liquor license holders?
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