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DEMS DA BREAKS
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Monterey County Weekly
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August 28, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Monterey County Coast Weekly Aug 28-Sep 3, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Local delegate dishes from Denver.
It's day two of the Democratic National Convention and Shawn Bagley is strung out on speeches and protests, stargazing George Stephanopoulos and Willie Brown.
"I am a political junkie and this is Disneyland-plus a flight to the moon-all wrapped in one," he says. Bagley's one of two Monterey County delegates at the convention. (Sam Farr's the other one.)
Central Coast Assemblyman John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), an Obama delegate, is at the DNC-for now. But he'll miss the major fireworks in Denver-speeches by Bill Clinton, Joe Biden and Obama-because he'll hop a flight to Sacramento on Aug. 27 for another kind of big bangthe California state budget showdown. ...