DNC Day 4 - Operation New Life
While looking for a seat at Invesco a bit of serendipity took place, as I ran into a freelance journalist in the same section, who was looking for people to interview, and who after learning about where I was from and why I was at the convention, told me that she had spent three years on Guam in the 1970’s. When I asked what for, she told me that she had worked for Tony Palomo, as a journalist writing for his newspaper The Pacifican . Sadly, the paper didn’t last very long and soon after it was born it was driven out of business by the Pacific Daily News . She asked if I knew Tony Palomo and I said yes, and so she told me some of her life so that next time I see him I could share with him how she’s doing. She ended up interviewing me and my thoughts on the Convention, and I gave her my usual, I’m excited to be here, but…if you aren't enamored with all the excitement and sign-waving, the specatcle of inclusion, then what you've got is basically friendly American colonialism.