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DEL.ICIO.USThe ‘King’ of … something
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Denver — When Georgia Democrat Kirk Dornbush stepped away from his seat at this morning’s meeting of the DNC’s credentials committee, he left a most unique seat-warmer, a two-foot tall trophy dubbing him “Chum King of 2007-2008.”
Sitting next to the hardware was Georgia Sen. David Adelman (D-Atlanta), who said his friend Dornbush hauled the trophy all the way from Atlanta.
And what is “chum” you ask? In this case, it is not cut up bait fish tossed over the side of a boat to attract big game fish. Now, Adelman said, in politico-speak, chum is the memorabilia that parties hawk to raise money. In another parlance it’s known as “swag:” T-shirts, stickers, buttons, etc., the detritus of easy reproduction.
Dornbush, according to Adelman, is “not necessarily the best,” salesman of chum, “he’s the most enthusiastic.”
Of course, the credentials committee meeting is not as much fun as this would make it seem. The dry business of awarding credentials to each state’s delegation is typically not worth watching.
But this year, of course, there has been d-r-a-m-a on the committee as the DNC and the Florida and Michigan parties were to be penalized for holding primaries earlier than allowed.
The rift earlier in the year threatened to throw the whole convention into chaos, had Hillary Clinton not dropped out of the presidential race, leaving Barack Obama alone to claim the nomination.
Since Obama is the unchallenged nominee-to-be, this action is less important than it once was. Still, there is the formality of the committee voting to allow the delegations from Florida and Michigan to be seated.
— Aaron Gould Sheinin
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