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Mayor Meets DNC Chair, Says First Lady is Eloquent, Brilliant

Dan Drew said he spent much of the first full day of the convention in Charlotte, N.C., with Berlin Mayor Adam Salina and Hartford City Council President Shawn Woodens.

 

Middletown Mayor Dan Drew spent much of Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C., with Berlin Mayor Adam P. Salina and Hartford City Council President Shawn T. Woodens, after beginning the first full day of the Democratic National Convention with a delegates breakfast with two very special guests.

Woodens and Drew did an online interview on CSPAN Tuesday morning.

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Reached by phone in the late afternoon, Drew said he had took part in the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting downtown and heard former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi address the delegates.

He also met former Vermont governor and DNC chair Howard Dean outside the Charlotte Convention Center.

“I’m just about to go into a forum on regionalism in municipal government and am now at United Nations Foundation Meeting,” he said. “This afternoon, I’m going to be at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Senate Studies.”

This hectic schedule isn’t unlike the one Drew already keeps up back in Middletown.

“I don’t sleep much anyway. I work a tremendous amount of hours during the week,” Drew said. “The schedule, while jam-packed here, the only difference between the schedule here and at home is that it just different types of events here.”

Drew was looking forward to First Lady Michele Obama’s speech at 10 p.m.

“She is an eloquent and brilliant woman,” Drew said. “There has been a lot of misinformation coming out of the Republican party recently. I think they want people to forget the past and forget the way they left the country when Barack Obama took it over and I think the First Lady will very clearly show, despite the Republican attempts to demonize her husband, what an extraordinary man he is and the extraordinary job he’s done for the people of the United States of America.”


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