Media descend on Breslin to cover Sandbox Party convention
Submitted by aheller on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 3:00pm
EAST LANSING - Media across the state turned out to witness the crash, bang, boom spectacle of gubernatorial candidates addressing thousands of parents and their children inside a sweaty, noisy Breslin Center Thursday.
The Detroit News led its coverage this way: Thousands of pint-sized Michiganians boogied, bounced in their strollers and provided one heck of an audience Thursday for Michigan's gubernatorial candidates. Read more here.
The Detroit Free Press described the event as a "warm up" for the candidates' respective upcoming conventions. Their coverage began: It was a noisy warm-up to this weekend's state party conventions, as gubernatorial candidates Rick Snyder and Virg Bernero spoke briefly to a few thousand children and parents gathered Thursday to promote state support for early childhood development programs. Read more here.
WILX described the event as 'not your typical campaign audience," and noted that while the kids in attendance weren't necessarily listening to the candidates, their parents certainly were. See their report here.
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