Analysis: The Sunshine State has hosted four conventions. Each one is a cautionary tale that Trump probably should have heeded before picking Jacksonville in August
This August, when President Donald J. Trump is scheduled to take to a stage in Jacksonville and accept his party’s nomination for re-election, the event will mark the fifth time that a political convention has been held in Florida at the height of the state’s molten summer.
To understand why the past is often prologue when it comes to Florida conventions, it helps to know a little about what made Florida attractive in the first place and why for well over a century no one in their right mind thought of Florida as a possible venue for the quadrennial extravaganza. Nixon wanted to hold the convention in a place where he’d be comfortable, even if nobody else was. Although Jackie Gleason bragged on his television show that Miami Beach was “the sun and fun capital of the world,” Miami Beach hotels routinely shut down during the hot summer months. Of course, that meant there were lots of rooms available for the perspiring delegates., reported that the temperature “hung around 87 day after day, and at night it went down to 82.
When word spread that Chamberlain and others from the convention would travel to Liberty City to hear everyone’s concerns, a crowd of hundreds gathered. But the famous names failed to appear. The police, on the other hand, showed up in force and tensions grew higher. But the next day, Kirk was a no-show. Underlings had been sent to negotiate. Word of the insult spread quickly.Soon about 1,000 people began wreaking havoc again. State troopers showed up with a truck that they had converted from spraying insecticide to spraying tear gas and drove everyone back.
The Democrats went first, in July. The party was broke, so the TV networks helped foot the bill for the spectacle, said Jim Clark, now a University of Central Florida historian, then a political reporter for the. The conventioneers were less than thrilled with their potential nominee, Sen. George McGovern, but efforts to find a replacement failed.Presidents in Florida: How the Presidents Have Shaped Florida and How Florida Has Influenced the Presidents.
Sen. George McGovern and Sen. Thomas Eagleton in Miami Beach on July 13, 1972. It was not a successful pairing.Nixon’s escalation of the Vietnam War that he had promised to end had ignited a tremendous anger. On the August day Nixon was to accept the nomination, 3,000 anti-war protesters broke free of their free-speech zones to zero in on GOP conventioneers returning from dinner.
When the frustrated protesters struck camp and left town, George said, “to me that was the last hurrah of the ‘60s counterculture.”Prior to the Democratic convention, the Committee to Reelect the President, or “CREEP,” commissioned G. Gordon Liddy to dream up ways to disrupt the opposition. Liddy proposed anchoring a yacht near shore and stocking it with prostitutes and hidden microphones. They could lure Democratic officials over for shipboard sex and blackmail them for information.
To avoid a repeat of scenes such as those, former Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, a Democrat, said he and his staff traveled to other cities that held conventions to find out what mistakes to avoid. Tampa is widely known for its strip clubs—one has a VIP room inside what looks like a flying saucer on its roof. With thousands of well-heeled strangers in town, the dancers expected a major payday. Instead, nervous delegates stuck close to their hotels and convention center.
Except for the grousing about assignments and bad commutes, though, there was little dissent during the convention. That was in part because the police department deployed spies to infiltrate the protest organizations. Some undercover officers did more than collect intelligence—they actually took over.in 2015.
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