Nashville officials will take up an offer from the Democratic National Committee to apply to host the party's 2016 nominating convention.
CNN reported earlier this week that Nashville is one of more than 30 cities that have been invited to apply. In an email Thursday, Leigh Anne Sanders, corporate communications manager for the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp., said officials "are in the process of responding to the DNC that we are indeed interested in hosting the 2016 meeting."
"We are honored to be considered and look forward to pursuing the possibility," Sanders said.
Due to a conflict in dates, Nashville passed on an invitation to bid for the 2016 Republican National Convention.
All of this in the name of the usual "if you build it, they will come" mentality that has proven wrong time and time and time and time again. When will these idiots finally learn? Three quarters of a billion dollars charged to the city credit card to try to beat Orlando and Las Vegas at the convention game, when everyone in the industry knew all along that would never happen, including the numerous cities who have tried this tactic in the past and lost.

So anyway, Karl has wanted to bring a party convention here for a while. Like everything else, he just doesn't care that it's almost certainly a losing proposition from a financial standpoit. Nor does he care that such an event will disrupt the lives of a whole lot of people AND will almost certainly kill off other tourism during that time period (late summer sometime), which is very big in Nashville at that time of year. Who wants to go on vacation somewhere that is overrun by by protesters of every stripe and the concurrent police in place to control them?
In short, he just wants a feather in his cap to say that Nashville held a party convention.
Please, PLEASE, Democrats, pick some place else!
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