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FRC's DC BRIEFING: Upgrade
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For a movement in crisis, for a group whose influence is allegedly waning, the Family Research Council sure knows how to pack a room. Last year's Washington Briefing was held at the equivalent of a tier-3 facility: the respectable, venerable Omni Shoreham. The main ballroom seated perhaps 500. This year, they've upgraded.
Right now, I'm sitting in the back of the international ballroom of the Washington Hilton -- a tier 2 facility -- listening to Sen. Sam Brownback's campaign eulogy with about 1,500 other folks; the media contingent numbers in the hundreds; all the television networks, major newspapers, 25 nationally known bloggers, even Jeff Greenfield, and a lot more. For the media, maybe it's the equivalent of blood in the water for a shark, but the three weeks of build-up to this convention has turned it into the single most important political event for Republicans this fall.
Right now, I'm sitting in the back of the international ballroom of the Washington Hilton -- a tier 2 facility -- listening to Sen. Sam Brownback's campaign eulogy with about 1,500 other folks; the media contingent numbers in the hundreds; all the television networks, major newspapers, 25 nationally known bloggers, even Jeff Greenfield, and a lot more. For the media, maybe it's the equivalent of blood in the water for a shark, but the three weeks of build-up to this convention has turned it into the single most important political event for Republicans this fall.
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