DNC Day 2: Warm eggs, cold flacks and a protester breaches the arena
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CHICAGO — There’s nothing that sours me like a handsy flack — eh, perhaps flack is too generous — wrangler is more appropriate — who herds, contains and even prevents reportorial duty.
That was my experience bright and early Tuesday inside the Palmer House hotel fourth floor ballroom, where the Pennsylvania Democratic delegation was clanking silverware on plates, eating eggs and listening to speakers hungry for its 19 electoral votes sometime in a distant future.
I was doing the DNC breakfast rounds to listen to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, who is touring these morning gatherings like a battleground state presidential candidate in the making.
I commend the Florida Democrats for being completely hospitable, allowing me to roam the room, film moments with my phone, sit down at tables and conduct interviews with delegates.
When I got to Pennsylvania, I was blockaded and chided for exercising the same open-field play. After Beshear did his routine, I approached Jason Salus, a Montgomery County, Pa. Democratic Party chairman to ask him what he thought about a Kentucky Democrat’s future in a party about to be owned by California’s Kamala Harris.
I felt a tap on my back.
“Excuse me sir, we’re not doing roaming. We’ve got to keep this clear.”
He was thin, had dark hair and dark glasses. I loathed him immediately. Admittedly,