My job is primarily preparing student to take the bar exam. The convention is scheduled for the same dates as the bar examination in 2016. . . and the city where our bar exam is being held was on the list for the convention.

The bar examiners are already struggling to find a location for the 2015 bar exam (due to some stupid bag selling convention that booked the convention center and locked up all the hotel rooms in the city more than a year ago). I have panicked students trying to make hotel reservations for July, unaware that we don't even know what city will host the bar exam yet. I was not looking forward to doing that for a second time in 2016.

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

2. Awesome. So much history in Philly.

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 10:43 AM

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hlthe2b

(102,317 posts)

3. Seems like a good choice to me....

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 10:45 AM

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WillyT

(72,631 posts)

4. It's Funny... Just The Other Day I Was Pondering...

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 10:50 AM

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whether it would be a good idea to have the convention in Detroit.

You know... show the rest of the country what Republican policies lead to.

But that might be a tad negative... plus it wasn't just Republicans that gutted Detroit.

Better to appeal to our better angels I suppose... on to Philly!

LonePirate

(13,427 posts)

5. And the MSM will still trumpet PA as a swing state in 2016 despite no chance of it going red

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 11:45 AM

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tracks29

(98 posts)

6. Awesome

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 11:46 AM

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tk2kewl

(18,133 posts)

7. glad it's not Brooklyn

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 12:05 PM

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TBF

(32,075 posts)

8. Why would Brooklyn have been terrible? nt

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 12:06 PM

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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)

9. Too many common folk would come to Brooklyn

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 12:51 PM

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benz380

(534 posts)

10. Plus not enough salons for everyone

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 12:52 PM

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brooklynite

(94,637 posts)

17. If there were to be a salon, it would probably be in my living room...

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 02:40 PM

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10 minutes away.

TBF

(32,075 posts)

12. They wouldn't have to come -

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 01:15 PM

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they are already there. Some very poverty-stricken neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It would do the country good to see what our corporate overlords have created. My second choice would be Detroit. I don't want to see Hillary in front of the Liberty Bell. I want to see her in the middle of Compton telling me how exactly she is going to address income inequality.

benz380

(534 posts)

22. I bet she'd use her southern drawl voice too. n/t

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 03:56 PM

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brooklynite

(94,637 posts)

16. A serious answer: Brooklyn would have gotten all the pain and few of the benefits

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Thu Feb 12, 2015, 01:47 PM

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Barclays Center is at the hub of three major Avenues and 10 subway lines. Secret Service security for the convention would require closures for blocks in all direction, affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Meanwhile, most of the hotels big enough to host the convention attendees would still be in Manhattan, which is also where the parties, receptions, "salons" etc. would be held.