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...first night of the Republican National Convention??Monday, Aug. 30—a junior Bulldog found himself on a Secret Service leash after harassing Vice President (and Yale dropout) Dick Cheney. Thomas Frampton, a liberal leader on the New Haven campus, was arrested for assaulting federal officers after coming within 10 feet of Cheney’s private seating area and shouting anti-Bush slogans...
Matthew P. Downer ’07, who spent the summer as an assistant in the convention??s Office of External Relations and Program Committee, called Bush’s speech a “grand slam...
...made a compelling case for another four years,” said Downer, who watched the speech from the convention??s plush red floor next to the Ohio delegation...
Lewis, a perennially positive volunteer from Brookline, Mass., says she enjoyed her summer tasks for the convention??s external relations office, even down to the sign painting. She says convention employees hand-painted 30,000 signs to distribute to delegates, hoping to give the Garden a more “grassroots” flavor...
...weeks before election day, the Smith campaign held an “organizing convention?? to rally more than 200 volunteers for the final phase of the campaign. At the same time, Carnahan hired a group called Grassroots Solutions to contact voters on behalf of his campaign. While voters were receiving phone calls, personal visits and postcards from neighbors who supported Jeff Smith, Grassroots Solutions sent paid employees (many of whom had never heard of Russ Carnahan before they got their jobs) to knock on doors and call voters...