The Other Senator

There is a link on the Strib site that lists the people who were arrested in St. Paul this week. It has been a busy week at the court house so there were 30 pages of names. Our fair state has been invaded by the Doe family, Jane and John and their clones, who were repeatedly arrested for rioting, etc. The rioters who gave their addresses were mainly from out of state. Apparently the RNC was too much to be passed up.

I had another hike down to the Zone to see if I could recognize any famous Republicans. But first I recognized our Democratic Senator, Amy Klobuchar, as she was exiting the MSNBC stage at Rice Park. She had just been interviewed about some political subject or another.

Later on I recognized another woman Senator. This one is Kay Bailey Hutchison from Texas. She's the one in the bright yellow suit. She had just left the stage at MSNBC and was going back into the Xcel center for some more politicking. She is a long standing and quite powerful member of the U.S. Senate. She was surrounded by people attracted to power.


I recognized several other famous faces - Tom Ridge, Norm Coleman (again), Julie Nelson from KARE-TV - but the woman below being interviewed is not familiar to me. She was wearing a power suit, sitting in Rice Park and answering questions by the woman on the right, in an animated fashion. Let me know if you recognize her. I'm sure that she's famous somewhere.

This is a crowd shot near the MSNBC stage featuring some demonstrator who was decrying bird porn. I'm not sure what his cause really was, but he was garnering quite a bit of attention. It seems to me to come under the heading of political theatre.


It was pretty peaceful while I was near the zone. There were clearly some very important people in the crowd and it was pretty clear that they knew that they are important.

Later, I played three sets of tennis and won only two. The geezers were out in force on one of the nicest days of the summer.