Just a little while ago, we learned that Florida Progressive Coalition will officially represent the Sunshine state blogging community at the Democratic National Convention. We will have credentials and will be reporting live from the floor of the convention (as well as many other venues).
All of the details haven’t been given to us yet, but what we learned before was that it is the organization that gets credentialed and that, I believe means multiple people attending the convention with our credential. We could have as many as six people reporting as official FPC bloggers at the convention. Another FPC member, Alison Berke Morano, is a delegate and several other Netroots-oriented people, such as Megan Foster and Alan Brock, will also be in attendance. Maybe we can get them to chime in on their experiences as well.
Our goal will be to provide the best coverage of the Democratic Convention. Period. Here at the FPC blog, we’ll do our best to provide more frequent and higher quality reporting than any other blog or mainstream media outlet. That is, if we recover from all the high-level parties we’ll be getting in to in time. 
Yeah, I’m sure the bloggers will get access to the high-end parties… Luckily, I met a lot of the Denver bloggers on my last trip to D.C., so we’ll at least know some locals who can direct us to some events we can get into.
Seriously, though, we will be doing our best to provide the best reporting of the convention, so come back in August for our coverage. Actually, come back before then, but definitely come back then, too.
SquareState.net’s announcement (w/ an official interview with Howard Dean on blogging and the convention)
Convention 101 for all your Democratic Convention questions and answers
Kenneth, my blog EverydayCitizen.com is the the blogger corps blog from Kansas. I’ve been visiting the other blogger corps sites (that’s how I found yours) to try to see what people know about how many passes we get. I submitted ten names on our clearance form and it sounds like you submitted six. My hope is that we don’t have to pass one credential around among all ten of us. My hope is that if we get only one state blogger corps pass that the remainder of our bloggers will get the general blogger corps passes so that all ten of us can be reporting from within the Pepsi Center at once. It sounds like this is what you want for your six bloggers as well.
Do you think we have to do anything else in order to make sure the remainder of our authors are included in the General Blogger Corps? ?
Write to me if you want… let’s swap notes… my address is
pjpohly AT yahoo
It’s great to have FPC credentialed to cover such an important national event. We’ve worked hard to achieve this, and we deserve to feel proud and elated at this news.
Thanks so much for your tireless efforts, Kenneth. Your vision, commitment, and leadership are irreplaceable to our community.
Florida’s online progressive community deserves kudos, as well. The FPC managers, the radio show hosts, the many contributors to the blog and wiki, those who take time to post thoughtful comments, the network of bloggers who link here, the fine authors of the blogs listed in our FL Progressive Blogroll, the activists and candidates who graciously consent to interviews, the readership of FPC… Every one of these folk deserves our sincere gratitude.
We are the new media, free to write our own narratives, unhindered by the constraints placed upon traditional corporate media. We make no pretense to neutrality or objectivity to hide a corporate agenda: We are up-front about the progressive leaning of our publication. Honest critical thinking and some regard to civility are all we ask of our contributors.
I eagerly await seeing the FPC coverage of this undoubtedly historic event.
Congratulations! This is exactly the sort of recognition of excellence that the FPC, and you personally, Ken, deserve.
I hope you can cut through the stage show crap the MSM is going to be covering, and report on the real workings of what is shaping up to be a very interesting convention.
Pam Pohly wrote:
Do you think we have to do anything else in order to make sure the remainder of our authors are included in the General Blogger Corps? ?
Speaking just for myself, Pam, although I’m a member of the FPC team for Denver, I’ve also submitted my own blog for the General Blogger Pool, and I noted that on the info form I submitted yesterday. I got a personal reply acknowledging it, so I guess it’s in the mix. Anyway, that’s one option, I suppose.
I was under the impression that each state team was allotted five members, but if it’s more than that, all the better. We shall see …
Congrats! I, for one, am looking forward to your presence and my blog will be following yours closely. I am gratified that a local/state blog of prominence will be on site to give us that perspective. It has been frustrating watching the MSM and even the liberal blogosphere only tell part of the story regarding the Florida Democratic party and how we wound up having our delegation getting our credentials stripped since we broke DNC rule 20.C.1(a) & Rule 11.A. I did a post and a couple of diaries trying to spread the word about the state GOP and their attempts to subterfuge the DNC Democratic primary by unilaterally moving the date forward thereby violating party rules.
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Truman’s Conscience
“The Buck Stopped Here”
Glad you folks will be coming here..for your info here is link to our long time alt paper(check out food places etc)
http://www.westword.com/
Our true Lefty Oasis in Denver
http://www.mercurycafe.com/
If you can swing it..only 35 min to pepsi center reasonable rates..very cool place to lodge
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Good luck..
feel free to contact me for anything..
Drew E.