As was rumored late last week, and now confirmed, Barack Obama will be accepting the official Democratic nomination on Thursday August 28th, not at the Pepsi center, but at Invesco Field at Mile High. During a conference call, with DNC chairman Governor Howard Dean, Convention co-chair and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, and Anita Dunn, senior advisor to the Obama campaign, the three expressed their enthusiasm for this event, though understandably few details on logistics were available.
Security is of course a concern. Gov. Dean mentioned talking about this event with Denver mayor Hickenlooper. The mayor had expressed that if the Obama campaign wants to do this, they're going to find a way to do it. Of course, not all of the security details will be released. That's just the nature of security, Dean reminded.
Update - Wanna go to the speech? The Colorado Democratic Party's site has a page for signup. h/t to ColoradoIndependent
And there's even a way to get involved early, by participating or hosting your own platform meeting July 17th through 27th. Maybe we should host our own netroots platform meeting.
The event at Mile High is expected to be open to all or at least as many as possible of those hard working volunteers, the grassroots, that Gov. Dean described make Obama's campaign what it is. There wasn't any more information on who would get in, again as those details haven't yet been worked out.
The DNC is also expecting to help with fundraising to make up the difference in costs. The Obama campaign will also be helping out on that front.
The Obama campaign is already taking advantage of this to help their own fundraising by running a contest to give backstage passes to a lucky few. (h/t to DemConWatch )
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