| Morning, y'all ... as many of you know, the Daily Kingfish has been selected to attend the Democratic National Convention later this summer in Denver, CO, as the official state blog for Louisiana. What that means is that the Daily Kingfish will be sitting on the floor of the Convention with the Louisiana delegation. It is, ultimately, the best access to the state party and it's members that a blog could ever hope for.
I also want to let y'all know that Lamar White and Dan Smith of CenLamar will be joining me in Denver on the Daily Kingfish blogger credential. What that means is that we will be able to offer up some more coverage ... as there will be more than just 1 Daily Kingfish blogger at the convention. To that end, you will see some cross-posting going on with Lamar and Dan here at Daily Kingfish, which will be front-paged. We're still working out how that's going to work, but it will happen, possibly as soon as Thursday.
Unfortunately, neither the DNCC nor the Louisiana Democratic Party will be helping us pay our way to the Convention. We will have to pay our entire bill ourselves. That includes airfare, (which was about $400 for a round-trip when I last checked two days ago from New Orleans to Denver and I'm guessing was $500 for Lamar and Dan from Alexandria), the hotel room where the Louisiana delegation is staying (4 nights at $170/night + tax, not to mention food and drink. So that means about $1,400 for the airfare, $800 for the hotel room, and say $600 for food and drink between the three of us for 4 days. That's a total of $2,800.
So that means we'd need to raise $100 from 28 people, or $50 from 56 people, or $25 from 112 people. Honestly, if you can give, we'll be grateful. And you will get great Louisiana-centric coverage of the convention, along with a thank you note from the three of us, and a token of our affection that is yet to be determined. The link to donate is the Donate button with all the credit card symbols over to the right, below where it says:
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