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RUSH: This is the Denver Post. The New York Times has a story as well. The Pepsi Center is getting a makeover for Democrat National Committee. Folks, wait \u2019til you hear this. ‘The Pepsi Center hands over the keys to construction teams for the Democratic National Convention Committee at 8 a.m. Monday, and the on-the-ground, multimillion-dollar race to transform the arena into a convention hall by Aug. 25 begins. Standing inside the Pepsi Center not long after Denver won the bid, the facility\u2019s general manager, Dave Jolette, waved his hand at the vast space in something like awe, or maybe fear. ‘The transformation,\u2019 he said, ‘will be enormous.\u2019 For the past two weeks, Jolette has been overseeing a wholesale clearance of equipment and furnishings from the building\u2019s retail stores, all its storage areas, the locker rooms for the Denver Nuggets and the Colorado Avalanche. ‘There are weights up there that are bigger than you or I,\u2019 Jolette said.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I mean, they\u2019re cleaning out all of the luxury suites because that\u2019s where the TV wise men\u2019s booths will be. So they\u2019re taking down ceilings, they\u2019re putting up walls. They\u2019re ripping this whole building apart. ‘It\u2019s details like this that mesmerize him: The Pepsi Center is outfitted with 576 miles of phone lines, computer lines and high-speed cable. But that\u2019s not enough. The DNCC\u2019s needs, due in part to security, create a system ‘so massive it exceeds the Pepsi Center\u2019s.\u2019 So the DNCC contractors will overlay all those cables with their own. Qwest has donated several million dollars\u2019 worth of telecommunications equipment to outfit the convention hall and the media city that will go up outside it with approximately 3,000 data lines and 2,500 voice-grade circuits. Based on past conventions, Qwest estimates the project will require about 160 miles of copper and coaxial cable in and around the Pepsi Center, and more than a dozen miles of fiber-optic. Xcel Energy is donating the extra transformers needed to electrify the thousands of computers, cameras, microphones. Several other high-tech firms are donating goods and services. Many of the 95 suites will be stripped of their furnishings,\u2019 and restocked and furnished for the wise men on TV. Now, the Pepsi Center has its own lighting. Are you thinking carbon footprint here? Good. Good. (interruption) Well, Qwest, yeah, they donate to the Republicans, too. It goes back and forth. Snerdley, don\u2019t tell me you\u2019re shocked that corporate entities would pay protection racket money to either party. <\/p>\n

Anyway, ‘And though the Pepsi Center has its own lighting — good enough for professional sports and top-name entertainment acts — the Democrats will bring in their own. They will bring so many lights and speakers — as many as 300,000 pounds\u2019 worth — the ceiling will have to be reinforced to hold them. ‘It\u2019s kind of like a house party at your house that you\u2019re not hosting,\u2019 Jolette said. … Leasing the Pepsi Center for the seven weeks of construction, the week of the convention and the remaining two weeks of reconstruction, means $6.5 million for Kroenke.\u2019 Kroenke Arena Company owns the arena. Kroenke, by the way, is a Republican and he\u2019s in the Wal-Mart family, so the Democrats are paying Wal-Mart. I\u2019m not kidding you. Kroenke\u2019s owner is Stan Kroenke, and he\u2019s allowed exclusive access to one of the skyboxes for his own use even though he\u2019s a staunch Republican. He\u2019s married to Sam Walton\u2019s brother\u2019s daughter, and they live, I think, in Columbia, Missouri. Mega bucks. So the Democrats are paying this guy $6.5 million for all of this stuff. Now, here\u2019s the point. What is the carbon footprint of this? <\/p>\n

This is the party that\u2019s telling us to change our lightbulbs. This is the party telling us to turn off our lights and to raise or lower our thermostats. This is the party that wants to take us back to the Stone Age. But you see the hypocrisy: For their own event, they\u2019re bringing in so much junk, it might have been more efficient just to build their own arena rather than go in there and tear this one apart, then have to rebuild it after they leave for the upcoming basketball and hockey season. And all that copper? How much energy to mine all that copper? How about transporting all this stuff? You can\u2019t put this stuff on Obama\u2019s little airplane. I guarantee you none of this stuff would fit on his airplane. You gotta take this over the road, with diesel prices what they are now. All this wasted fuel for transportation. Anyway, that\u2019s the Democrats, and that\u2019s their big time convention. The Times story is about delays and rising costs for the convention, raising worries for Democrats. This story was so bad that Howard Dean actually put out a press release reacting to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is the Denver Post. The New York Times has a story as well. The Pepsi Center is getting a makeover for Democrat National Committee. 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