Well, my convention guest, Erik Brown, and I just landed in Minneapolis airport. While we were generally disappointed no passengers on our flight in were carryinh stuffed red, white and blue elephants, we had a great trip out.
While we are tired from all of the cross-country travel, we’re not the most tired. Staring at an empty baggage carousel near ours, waiting for baggage after an even longer flight was the GOP Governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle. Erik and I said hello with a tired enthusiasm that she managed to meet.
We’re currently off to the Bloomington Sheraton, which will now be the satellite HQ of the FlashReport for the next five days.
This week I encourage FR readers to keep an extra eye on the FlashReport and this blog for fun snippits out of the Republican National Convention. As my friend Anthony York of Capitol Weekly pointed out in his DNC Convention coverage — no real “news” comes out of these staged events. So we’ll be looking to bring you some up-close observations. For my part, I will attempt to be sarcastic and insightful in my observations, as you would hope and expect!
We’ll be looking for fellow FR bloggers that are in town, including Jill Buck, Mindy Fletcher, Mike Spence, Brandon Powers, and Matt Cunningham.
Of course we’ll miss our Governor who is home fighting for higher taxes, and our GOP legislators who are home fighting against higher taxes…