Zachary Earl Smith

The morning was fairly uneventful, but I spent quite a bit of time helping out at the volunteer center making care packages for hurricane victims. It was hard work but good. I really enjoyed the work, and it felt good knowing I could help my fellow Americans. Plus there wasn’t anything else going on so [...]

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I was very fortunate that one of our delegates wasn’t going to be able to make it for the evening and I was given their credentials. This enabled me to remain on the floor the entire evening, and even better - I am in the official convention photo. There were many good speakers but things really [...]

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Looks like things are getting back to normal and plans are to get the convention back on schedule. Had breakfast this morning with the Vermont delegation and heard from several speakers. The most prominent speakers during our breakfast were Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett Packard (also once briefly mentioned as a possible VP pick), [...]

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While at the Republican National Convention in Minnesota I got a chance to catch a special pre-release screening of An American Carol. A good laugh, a bit jumpy at times that was a little confusing but overall some decent funny entertainment. If you are a conservative or simply find liberal dribble annoying and always fantasized [...]

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After our exciting morning we went back to the hotel room where we finally got some broadband internet and were able to work. We had a snack for lunch and got ready to head over to the convention. The convention site located in Saint Paul at the Xcel Energy Center was very impressive. The bus [...]

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Got up at 7am this morning to get ready for our 8am delegation meeting, and at which we had a surprise guest pop in. Just as we were getting ready for Josh Tardy (House Minority leader) to speak, he introduced Karl Rove. Wicked, Rove spoke about John McCain and how McCain had defied his Vietnamese [...]

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After getting to bed around 2am (gotta love 24 hour days), we got up around 9am to get our credentials which are very nice (different ones for each day for security purposes). Wasn’t too much going on at that point so we walked to the metro station and went to the Mall of America. WOW. [...]

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Hello all, started this blog from an altitude of 36,000 feet and about an hour behind schedule (I love airports, sense my sarcasm). Got up at 2am EDT and drove from Presque Isle to Bangor with enough time to grab breakfast. Checked in around 5:30am and took off on time and arrived in Newark airport [...]

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I have been watching the Democratic convention with some amusement as Hillary gave her speech. I don’t know what Obama was thinking about letting her speak during prime time, as I don’t believe her speech helped him one bit. It isn’t about what she said, but what she didn’t say. Her speech said just enough [...]

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On August 9th the Maine Republican Party state committee voted on a resolution in support of American energy independence. The resolution was not without its detractors, but in the end the resolution secured a majority vote. Then there was an objection and a member claimed that the resolution required a two-thirds majority in order to [...]

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