The Regent Hosts: League of Women Voters

THE REGENT HOSTS:

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS

What:   Box Lunch Hot Topic – Are We Going to be
Ready for 50,000 Guests?

When:  11 AM – 1 PM, Saturday, March 31

Where:  The Regent, 6437 Watson Road (between Brandon
and Riverview)

RSVP:   by noon, Thursday, March 29, to 813/649-4309
or RSVP@hclwv.org

For Immediate Release                                                                              
March 15, 2012     

Contact: Mickey Castor, President

League of Women Voters of Hillsborough County

813/649-4309

We asked for it…We got
it…Now, what are we doing with it!

Get out the new welcome mat…about 50,000
guests are coming to visit in hot, hot August. 
They’ll be in Tampa and its environs for the 2012 Republican National Convention,
considered one of the two largest media events in the world.  They’ll be interested, of course, in what
just may be a hot, hot convention trying to settle on a candidate for U.S.
president in the middle of Florida’s potentially combustible hurricane season.

  On top
of the thousands of news folks, there will be delegates coming from coast to
coast as well as offshore, some 8,000 volunteers, tourists by the plane loads,
Secret Service and FBI, cops from around the country and maybe a few thousand
demonstrators ready to raise…well, the roof, if nothing else.  Whatever their agendas, they’ll all be on the
lookout for a hot time of one sort or another. 
They’ll be spending an estimated $300 million.

It could be one fire cracker of a party!   How near are we to ready?  What have we done to get there?   Have we covered all the bases, anticipated
all the contingencies, prepared for the best and the worst of times?  Are we following another manual or writing our
own?

Hillsborough County citizens are invited to
join the League of Women Voters in chewing over these and other questions with
Tampa’s Chief of Police Jane Castor and Preston Cook, Hillsborough County’s
Director of Emergency Operations, Saturday, March 31, at The Regent community
center near Brandon.

This “Box Lunch Hot Topic” is one of the FYI
series which is presented by the Hillsborough County League throughout the
year. Reservations are required. Cost is $15, including lunch.  

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