Of People and Politics; 11; The Delegate

says and that wisconsin's thirteen nineteen sixty law they're shoving chosen an election held in each precinct of the state on the first tuesday of a growing each year in which electoral votes for president and vice president ought to be like that delegates to the national convention of each party nominated candidates for president and vice president of the united states the peaks boy all right the american political convention developed during the nineteenth century in an attempt to distribute power more equitably in the political points to democratize the process of selecting a candidate for

president conventions operate under the song procedural rules of the house of representatives but they are much more than a legislative assembly there a circus a pep rally a battlefield and a peace conference most television coverage of the convention focuses on prominent political faces nobody ever says much about the delegates and we only see them sitting in the big square law on the floor but delegate conventions are important people it is they use select the nominee this is the story of one of them one only thirteen hundred and eight delegates to the issues republican convention was a man named john was hard like one third of the delegates he is an attorney at law but john barrasso is also a wisconsin farm it knows as much about cows as it does about courtroom here we haven't really were what we concentrated and

very recently because we saw some of the things that people have reportedly and confessions to do with this experience you've got to have value because the three units small you just can't get richer than the average size fourteen episodes that ariel scale this is the land that greenstein cold cruelly country rolling on down to the mississippi river that marks the western boundary of the state the boss on the ball long hear john's grandfather was the first white child born in lacrosse county outside the city of lacrosse his great grandfather arrived in the year eighteen fifty with a group of swiss employees and four hundred and fourteen years there has been a plot in the cemetery i mean

this is john lives in bangor with his wife and their four children their house like the village itself a substantial but not pretentious the boys on business day begins early mr johns clients of farmers men were up at dawn and ready to confirm right after the morning milking this is one of the two days a week that he takes the short drive to his banger office is as a general practice dealing with problems of programming wheels with auto accidents with arguments about fence line pretty nice

here he is practiced since nineteen forty seven when he returned from the war openly office amended republican politics his first meeting this morning is with the treasurer of the newburgh political operative cheese factory was driven over to discuss a tax matter ms banks because bees by john is the only attorney it is not the only attorney in the process four days a week he commutes eighteen miles to his lacrosse practice it is

it is jon knows many people here in the third congressional district he was the county da for two terms and he's a member of the elks the american legion and vfw the first baptist church and a lieutenant governor of the kiwanis club oh oh the polls the

ad be on nobody saw this bucolic and small town geniality it turns out that john was autism knowing clear headed politician in our two party system is we are our human gathered some reporters if you will on another still making an effective approach in national politics i think that we've done quite well in this next government if the guidelines for that we meet the needs of family that they have in your party that are so that given point they can be effective because they would have these thoughts together before it would seem to me it's not politics american citizenship spanish citizenship would you save and it's at this

location so that you get elected if you don't make a decision as well your basic philosophy allies in the right wing party the other this is where you are an affable you know you might disagree that candidate because the candidate will not be the drawer determine what happens in this administration the rest of the representatives and senators and as result is really a moderate ministration though the nominees almost like communication and from individuals i've had just a tremendous amount of money i received this morning i think we are about sixteen pieces and licking your hand typed from individuals say nothing hotels in charge anything if i check my credit for every delegate who's responsible couldn't

get out there actually being they's builder by the temptations stop there on we're coming back to the states going to make your decision yes i think the abuse interesting so many people in this campaign to that are interested in selecting a candidate who fits within the party framework and also been elected under his grassroots support significant fourth symphony concert judgment lawyer

the boss odds in san francisco john has brought the whole family all their serious business ahead but you'd never know it to walk down our streets with them or into the jam the noisy lobby of the st francis hotel convention had what was then around into the headquarters of the thirty men wisconsin delegation and the pleasant moment which comes when you find a familiar face far from all when a delegate leads a delegate they immediately begin to speculate or ten days a decision began jonathan's the first wisconsin caucus where the speaker is representative john burns the delegation has pledged to burns's a

favorite song only he can release them to vote for another ayres be a movie actor that's why it's an uncommitted to any of these senate candidates are nominated i will meet our oh boy he beat me with the poker at this point john bauer saudis don't know buddy holly plans involve delegate listen carefully about goldwater's curtain as they come separately before the wisconsin delegation but the press will not listen to him john byrne spends the first ten

minutes ejecting newsman and cameron nice nice yeah behind this closed door the delegate listens to go water than scrap it and he tries to make a sensible appraisal of them in the midst of the lights and the action and the cameras are at least in part in these

issues that southbound on leave they sure freeway it'll be a familiar freeway to delegates a newsman in the next week or bleeds to the cow palace goebel has the most options including an ongoing informal one painted on the side of a hill on this one nineteen sixty four law has been changed to eighteen sixty four this is a big exciting moment as a delegate from the third district walks with his wife and his ultimate goal of the convention hall not the only ones that are excited people or from goldwater are excited and so are people who are against almost everybody wants to make his position clear with about the cow palace was originally built as the san francisco international livestock exhibition hall but it's the nickname that stuck

here is where all the decisions will be made clear date the sites of the sounds is the move for the first time down the aisle to great cycle we read the air one thing he learns quickly if you want to get anywhere on the delegates floor you have to push in the next four days the delegates will spend thirty eight hours on this floor looking listening thinking oh i have been talking and pushing as with every political convention

the early moments are ceremonial unconventional lionel maine the problem the pittsburgh he leads community and the experience

politician critics were a son john the convention page that they're going to have trouble finding complete unity he's busy fbi it's b rockefeller strengthen romney and a long parade of other speakers support platform amendments on civil rights locally controlled extremism the delegate listeners comes to his own conclusion about the real value of

the amendments to each and every instance delegation and i think that the positions that were presented were oriented primarily establish an issue not substantially alter the crime but this is a vacation to when those sentences the vacation is complete without warning a cable car at the island market turntable boss odds and four hundred other people bomb onto a card design for forty fortunately there's plenty of standing around another on their way up to the top the nob hill and then even higher up to the top of the fairmont hotel where they eat lunch overlooking what many people believe is the fair city in

all the world it's a momentary respite from the windy political oratory at the cow palace as the children tell their father about fisherman's wharf about that crazy blocked on lombard street the twists up the face of the hill like an imaginative state but the pleasant family lunches all to sure john leisurely getting back to italian room at the st francis and the most important wisconsin caucus of the more irritating informal wisconsin ballot was twenty six to

four in favor of goldwater so john will conscientiously for williams the thirty wisconsin ballots including his own will be cast on the floor of the convention for barry goldwater of arizona the years it won't be as its the biggest and most expensive spontaneous it it's been years it's

been it's been wildly don't listen to the lies and finally after the delegate izzard endless nominations endless seconding speeches and an endless assembly of every political cliche in the book comes a recall vote no

on monday at the

convention and it's pushing finance it's a time of fabulous success for some of continuing conflict it just as many other politicians we're all caught up in the emotions are listening right now i think that these people are going back to the us as a fellow villager had since audiences shift back into somewhat more moderate views american express here where they get overwhelming majority joining the extent that they didn't i don't think that no i think that we will be able to go back and

you feel differently about conventions now your first quote thank you and i think the listeners it is it is a man or by the action of this convention is now in the way of a

butler it's been part of these proceedings have been carried on telstar in order to make this aspect of the american political scene clear to the people of europe it's been you know

billy does them to the end of the lawn sit and will move them will listen to us one last question i got on the great orchestral circus is over are we back on that wisconsin hillside john barrasso and said it would seem to me that it's not good citizenship on the part of the person to say i'm going to sit this one out of so and so doesn't get elected a delegate from wisconsin who's

taught was what's happening or who's had nurses goldwater collects his children and begins the long drive home and an atlanta area and at abu ghraib next week the high cost of running the peak basically isles b the national educational television it's been

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