7 - 8:30 p.m., Rondo Community Outreach Library
Candidates from State Representative District 65 A & B
Presented by The League of Women Voters and Rondo Community Outreach Library.
7 - 8:30 p.m., Highland Park
Candidates from State Representative District 64 A & B
64A: Sharon Anderson, Meg Ferber, and Erin Murphy
64B: Emory Dively and Michael Paymar
Presented by The League of Women Voters, the Highland Park Library, Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, Sisters of St. Joseph, and College of St. Catherine.
Rondo Library hosted E-Participation and Real-World Politics , presented by St. Paul E-Democracy last night.
For those who missed it, you can watch the slides below and listen to the one-hour presentation in mp3.
7 p.m., Founders Hall, Metropolitan State University / Dayton’s Bluff Library
Covering the 2008 Election: Perspective from the Frontlines
Mark Halperin, editor-at-large and senior political analyst for TIME, covers politics, elections and debates for the magazine and TIME.com and is the creator and author of TIME.com’s The Page, a definitive source for the latest news on politics.
On Halperin’s authored website, The Page, visitors will find a one-stop destination that provides the latest political stories, campaign ads, TV clips, videos and campaign reactions from every news source, along with his own analysis.
Prior to joining TIME in April 2007, Halperin worked at ABC News for nearly 20 years, where he covered five presidential elections and served as political director from November 1997 to April 2007. He remains a political analyst for ABC News, and is the author of The Undecided Voter’s Guide to the Next President, and the co-author of The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008.
Book signing to follow.
If you live or work in Saint Paul, you might be wondering what the impact of the Republican National Convention will be on your daily life.
First and foremost, the City of Saint Paul will be open for business.
The Saint Paul Public Library, including the Central Library, will be open its regular hours (we’ll be closed Labor Day weekend, as usual).
For all the details, the City of Saint Paul has posted the answers to frequently asked questions about the Convention and its impact on citizens.
Information about parking downtown during the Convention can also be found on the City’s web site.
3 - 4 p.m., Hayden Heights Library
Moving Lives Artist: Lucy Smith
Moving Lives Artist and Holocaust survivor Lucy Smith will share her stories and experiences about Art for Social Change.
See an original printing of the Declaration of Independence!
The document will be on display for public viewing September 2 - 4, 2008, at the Saint Paul City Hall/Ramsey County Courthouse, 15 W. Kellogg Boulevard in downtown Saint Paul.
Read more about it on the City of Saint Paul’s web site.
Read the text of the Declaration of Independence and learn about the people who signed it.
It’s an event that only happens every 116 years!
The last time a major party’s national convention was in the area was way back in 1892.
The Republican National Convention was held at the Industrial Exposition Building in Minneapolis.
At the convention, President Benjamin Harrison was nominated for re-election. His running mate was Whitelaw Reid.
Harrison ended up losing the election to the Democratic nominee, Grover Cleveland. Cleveland had previously served as President, and had lost re-election to Harrison in 1888.
You see the candidate’s ads and you hear what they say in their speeches and during debates, but do you have time to track down the truthfulness of everything that is being said?
Luckily, the folks at FactCheck.org are doing just that for you.
The web site for the The Annenberg Political Fact Check is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Their aim is to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by monitoring the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.
The site includes assessment of the latest campaign ads, a “Just the Facts” video digest, a place where visitors can submit questions, and a way to sign up for RSS feeds or e-mail alerts, so you can stay on top of the newest information.
Is Saint Paul the center of the political universe this year?
The Republicans are holding their convention here in September, but before that, Democratic candidate Barack Obama was in town to mark his gaining the delegates he needed to become his party’s nominee.
Journalist and talk show host Jack Rice caught up with Mayor Chris Coleman for a brief interview at the event: