News Desk: Lockout in Charlotte

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THE PHOTO above was tweeted by Dana Milbank.Buzzfeed has the report.[...]

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News Desk: Barack Obama Will Watch Bill Clinton
Speak at the Convention

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CONFIRMED REPORTS from NBC News, then tweeted by Jeff Zeleny… Pres. Obama’s motorcade was just shown on MSNBC.President Obama is coming to the convention hall tonight to watch Clinton speech, a campaign source confirms.As for the video,[...]

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Paul Ryan may have lied about climbing 40 peaks
of the Rockeys

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James Fallows at the Atlantic raised a concern earlier today that Paul Ryan may have lied when he told the press that he had completed around 40 especially-high mountain climbs in the Rockeys. From Fallows:Here's the first exception. Ryan has told his hometown paper that he has climbed "close to 40" of the famous "Fourteeners" in Colorado -- the 54 peaks more than 14,000 feet high. In...

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DNC Day One Wrapup: Fire and Rain

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Day One of the Democratic National Convention started right out of the gate at a gallop, which is great unless you've got blisters on your feet and are schlepping around a tripod and camera along with the backpack. It's definitely an exercise in endurance, but I was faithful to the end, even hanging around waiting for the promised phantom hotel shuttle until somewhere around 2:30 AM. I had plenty of company, though. Lots of cops, bus drivers and cab drivers.

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2012 Democratic convention live, #6

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The Democratic National Convention 2012: We're winning Watch live video here and join the conversation as we live blog the 2012 Democratic convention

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Emanuel Cleaver gives inspiring & rousing speech
at DNC.

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Emanuel Cleaver gives inspiring & rousing speech at DNC. I have to start this off by simply stating, “Who knew?” Missouri Congressman and Black Congressional Caucus Chair Emanuel Cleaver brought the house down with a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday Night. It starts off a little but about the Two minute [...]

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2012 Democratic convention live, #5

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The Democratic National Convention 2012: We're winning Watch live video here and join the conversation as we live blog the 2012 Democratic convention

6:30 PM PT: The breadth and diversity of the Democratic Party is really stunning: from Cristina Saralegui to Austin Ligon to Emanuel Cleaver to Sandra Fluke, who will soon take the stage.

6:31 PM PT: And now a video on how President Obama saved the auto industry.

6:37 PM PT:

What an amazing experience to speak at the DNC about the people we met #nunsonthebus. We are responsible for each other!

? @sr_simone via DROID

6:43 PM PT: Yeesh, Sam Wurzelbacher is an a-hole:

Wouldn't it be great if when Elizabeth Warren comes out, the crowd does the "Tomahawk Chop"? #tcot #2012DNC

? @Joe4Congress12 via Twitter for iPhone

6:45 PM PT: Three of Mitt Romney's and Bain's Layoff victims take the stage.

6:47 PM PT:

If everyone Romney fired voted for Obama that's a good head start.

? @evale72 via HootSuite

6:50 PM PT: Oh, come on:

Speaker at #DNC2012 suggests #Romney makes money with no moral compass. A stretch considering his tithes so much or fair game?

? @LukeRussert via Twitter for BlackBerry®Aside from the fact that we don't know if he actually does tithe, so what? It's okay to screw over people who have given their lives to a company as long you donate some cash to your church? Isn't that what Tony Soprano did?

6:51 PM PT:

Speaking of @MittRomney, "I fault him for putting profits before people like me." - Randy Johnson, former American Pad employee

? @dailykos via TweetDeck

6:54 PM PT (Kaili Joy Gray): New thread here.

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Charlotte Fire Department closes access to TWC
Arena

post from DemConWatch on 05 September 2012 09:10:17 PM. © DemConWatch

Multiple sources are reporting that the Charlotte Fire Department has shut off access to Time Warner Cable Arena tonight. This happens at most Democratic conventions, but usually not until Thursday.

What does this mean for tomorrow night? Given the move from BoA Stadium to the smaller Arena, we suggest that everyone with credentials get to the venue as early as possible tomorrow night.

Update: Now sources are reporting:

1) People are being let in again

2) Obama is header to the arena

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Secret Service Eyes Romney Tax Return Blackmail
Attempt

About 7 p.m. last Thursday, members of the Williamson County Democratic Party returned to their offices in Franklin, Tenn., for a meeting, and found a padded manila envelope that had been dropped through the mail slot. Inside was a small USB drive and a piece of paper containing an outlandish claim: Tax documents belonging to Mitt and Ann Romney had been stolen.

Peter Burr, the chairman of the Williamson County Democratic Party, said he thought the package was "obviously a scam."

"We did not plug the thumb drive into anything," Burr told TPM. "I almost threw this thing away when we got it."

A similar package was discovered at the offices of the Williamson County Republican Party last Friday.

Meanwhile, over the last few days on Pastebin.com, a website popular with hackers, a pair of posts have been circulating, one with language similar or indentical to that found in the envelopes at the county party offices. The posts, whose authors are unknown, say that Romney tax documents were stolen several days ago from a PricewaterhouseCoopers' office in Franklin.

"Romney's 1040 tax returns were taken from the PWC office 8/25/2012 by gaining access to the third floor via a gentleman working on the 3rd floor of the building," one post reads. "A package was sent to the PWC on suite 260 with a flash drive containing a copy of the 1040 files, plus copies were sent to the Democratic office in the county and copies were sent to the GOP office in the county at the beginning of the week also containing flash drives with copies of Romney's tax returns before 2010."

A second post says that encrypted copies of the tax documents will be sent to major media outlets, and demands the equivalent of $1 million in Bitcoins, a virtual currency, in exchange for a purge of "the keys to unlock the data." Alternately, the post says that anyone interested in the documents can send the same amount of money in exchange for the release of the encryption keys.

"Failure to do this before September 28, the entire world will be allowed to view the documents with a publicly released key to unlock everything," the post reads.

On Wednesday, PricewaterhouseCoopers said in a statement that there was no evidence that anything had been stolen, but the company did acknowledge that it was working with the Secret Service:

We are aware of the allegations that have been made regarding improper access to our systems. We are working closely with the United States Secret Service, and at this time there is no evidence that our systems have been compromised or that there was any unauthorized access to the data in question.

George Ogilvie, a Secret Service spokesman, confirmed to TPM that the agency is "investigating the incident," but could not add further details.

In an interview with The Tennessean, the executive director of the Williamson County Republican Party said she also initially thought to treat the matter as a hoax.

"A million dollars seemed kind of low," Jean Barwick told the paper. "If you're going to go for a million, why not go for $100 million."

At first, she contacted only the state GOP, to see if it got a similar package. But then on Wednesday, Barwick decided to contact the police. Charles Warner, a spokesperson for the Franklin Police Department, told TPM that based on what officers were told, the department called the Secret Service. (Warner added that the Franklin police did not respond to any complaints at the offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers' during August.)

No one from either county party appears to have attempted to look at the contents of the USB drives.

Burr, the Democratic Party Chairman, said he had kept the USB drive in his briefcase. At one point, Burr said, he considered plugging the drive into an old computer, but he said the "last thing I wanted to do was plug it in to a computer that I cared about."

Wednesday morning, Burr's office started to get calls.

"We got a call from an affiliate of The Tennessean newspaper here," Burr said. "Almost immediately after that we got a call from the Secret Service."

Secret Service members came by a few hours later, and took the materials with them.

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The Greatest Communicator

“It’s quite good, actually,” Clinton said of their relationship. “It’s candid, it’s open. We haven’t been close friends a long time or anything like that, but he knows that I support him.” [The Hill]MAKING[...]

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