Audio, video recording banned at GOP convention
April 14th, 2008 – 3:33 PM by Dennis J. McGrathLost amid the Ron Paul delegates grabbing RNC delegate slots at the GOP’s recent Sixth Congressional District convention was this strange development: Republican Party officials banned video cameras and audio recording equipment at the convention, including journalists’ equipment.
St. Cloud Times Executive Editor John Bodette wrote about it in a Sunday column.
He explains that the local GOP executive committee wanted to prevent critics of Rep. Michele Bachmann from shooting video and misusing it, and it wanted to protect nervous delegates and others speaking at the convention from being recorded saying things they might regret having said.
I can’t recall a convention of any party — major or minor — instituting such a rule.
Just a hunch, but something tells me the Republican National Committee won’t be banning video and audio equipment when Sen. John McCain gives his acceptance speech at the national convention in the Xcel in September.
10 Responses to "Audio, video recording banned at GOP convention"
Dennis,
What’s the biggest political story in the last 48 hours?
Obama’s comments.
And you come up with this crap?
Come on, pal. Your few readers deserve better.
Maybe you can find another riveting topic in the Eveleth press.
Great job, Dennis.
What a bunch of macaca?
I was at the 2nd congressional district convention and we had the same rule. This crap about protecting Bachmann specifically is just wrong. It wasn’t our rationale in banning unauthorized videotaping down here, obviously. It is absolutely a possibility or even probability that some DFLer will videotape it, then take snipits and distort it to use it against us. The decision ultimately came down to this: There is no way it would benefit the party to have our convention videotaped, but it could definitely harm us, so why allow it? Also, Dennis, there is this portion of the Constitution that talks about freedom to assemble. It doesn’t say you have to assemble in public. Get a clue, you socialist.
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Dennis,
Here’s some free advice. While you continue to avoid the real issues, your failing paper continues to allow this kind of crap to be published by an angry, stupid man. How about Nick explaining the other pork b.s. proposals attached to the bill that Pawlenty vetoed?
How your management continues to wonder why readership is down is so obvious, yet you do nothing but help yourselves drown in your own ignorance.
I hear the policy has worked wonders for the Klan.
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Dennis,
Maybe you can help write a Franken book since Wellstone! is his hero. I’m sure Wellstone! would be very proud of Albert. He’s a peach
Democracy is supposed to be an open process and the GOP is acting like a banana republic cabal. They’ll let us see only what they want us to see - a carefully crafted facade that hides the truth.
sieg heil!
There is no need to ‘misstate’ anything Bachmann says; her original quotes do a fine job in showing the voters in the Sixth District was a disastrous choice they made (with the help of the Diebold counting machines, which also gave us another term of the incompetently selfish and vindictive governor).