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In reply to the discussion: Why are they considering Salt Lake City for our '16 national convention? [View all]dsc
(52,155 posts)except a very small visit to Philly, and a few visits to New Orleans. I certainly am not picking on the basis of getting wasted. I do think, the placement of the convention should be used to do several things, one of which is to reward locales for being exemplars of good Democratic values. I think Houston, to pick one, has been that in a place that it is fairly hard to do that. I certainly think they should get a convention well before say San Diego which under your scheme would be the preferred placement. I also they the convention should be used to try to help swing a state our way which in the near future could go our way, again Texas and for that matter both Michigan and PA are such states. I do have problems with Salt Lake City in that I don't see any value for the second part of this but I think places like Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio, Phoenix, Tucson, and Norfolk all would be great places at least under the second criteria and if they have good local laws then under the first as well.