Hillary Clinton delegate State Rep. Jack Franks (D-Marengo) has provided little reports from the convention floor each day for Pioneer Press.
You can find them here.
Some of what Franks wrote the first day follows:
“I got to speak to Dan Rather and did national television for C-SPAN and CBS. I’ve also been doing radio for WLS and others.,,
“Meetings with the Illinois delegation today and Hillary and Bill later tonight.”
The second day:
“What was real cool, remember seeing my dad on the stage in Chicago during the convention in 1968. My boys saw my wife and I on TV. I thought that was pretty cool — that is something they’ll remember that for the rest of their lives…
“Did interviews with BBC, ABC, CBS and C-Span as well as Radio One out of France yesterday. Did one in Portuguese, talking to a guy from Brazil.”
Here’s a bit from the third day:
“I ran into David Wilhelm, who is one of Barack’s campagin managers. We had a nice discussion and he asked me to go to Ohio on behalf of Obama, which I agreed to do, which I thought was exciting.
“As we were walking out, I noticed Frank Biden and I recognized him only because he was on stage when his brother gave his speech. We got to meet the whole family. My wife took a bunch of photos because there was a little boy, who was maybe two, on stage with the family. The family didn’t have a camera so we’re going to send all the pictures to them.
“The evening was topped off by the Illinois Delegation having a party at the hotel.”
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The top photo is of State Rep. Jack Franks speaking at a hearing on Governor Rod Blagojevich’s budget. The one at the bottom is of the Biden family while the Democratic Party Vice Presidential candidate was accepting his party’s nomination.