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2004 US Presidential Election
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July 28, 2004
Boston | So THAT'S How It's Done

I’ve been wondering all night how the delegates get all that crap they hold up at just the right time … flags, signs … even shirts to wear.

As if they’re reading my mind, the DNCC tells us how, and it’s called the Visibility Team.

Brian Mason and Matt Burton manage a team of 70 or so of the world’s hardest working volunteers. They spend their days backstage stapling and their nights running around the FleetCenter in fluorescent vests, lugging huge bags and boxes of posters, and delivering them to every section building. And they do so without a second to spare. Tonight, for instance, in just the last of their many assignments, they will be handing out 10,000 “Edwards” signs.

It is not easy. For the week, our Floor Manager Shelly Loos estimates that the volunteers will have moved almost 150,000 signs into the bowl of the Fleet.

Tip to Winer’s kick ass aggregator.



Posted by Alan at July 28, 2004 10:06 PM | TrackBack
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