Hallman a popular man at GOP convention
September 10th, 2008, 6:13 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Mike Branom
If Mayor Hugh Hallman is seeking the national spotlight, perhaps he should leave Tempe more often.
While at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn. last week, Hallman was the subject of a feature on Minnesota Public Radio. The reporter, Jim Gates, is an old high school friend, and so tagged along with Hallman as he executed his duties as a GOP delegate.
That interview comes on the heels of Hallman’s appearance in a national blog. But the mayor wants to make something clear: He was not an attendee at the Utne Reader party. Apparently, after that alternative magazine’s soirée ended, some revelers went to the St. Paul Hotel to continue to merry-making - and that’s where the cameras caught Hallman.