Republican National Convention

The Republican National Convention for the U.S. presidential election, 2004, will be held from August 30 to September 2, 2004, at New York City's Madison Square Garden.

This year the convention was pushed back by one month; the 2000 Republican National Convention started July 29th, 2000. The later date will allow the Republicans to exploit the convention's proximity to the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York City to bolster their political prospects.

On July 22nd 2004, the Republican Party launched a community volunteering campaign called Compassion Across America, timed to act as a PR spoiler for the start of the Democratic National Convention.

Republican National Convention staff

• Bill Harris, CEO [1].
• Brian Noyes, Director of Delegate and Caucus, appointed July 1 2004 [2].

Other Related SourceWatch Resources

• Bush-Cheney '04 Inc.
• Bush's Rangers
• Compassion Across America
• Republican National Committee
• soft money
• U.S. presidential election, 2004
• U.S. presidential election, 2004: Campaign Quotes

External Links

• Ben Smith, Iraq Media Guy Rebuilds Qatar At the Garden, New York Observer, October 23, 2003: Jim Wilkinson "started last month as the director of communications for the Republican National Convention, which will take place from Aug. 30 to Sept. 2 next year. His office, on the 18th floor over Madison Square Garden, is furnished with the essentials: leather-bound Bible, Yankee cap, Fox News on the flat-screen TV. ... His task: establish a communications center in the core of the media capital of the Western world."