Oppo and Conventions

From POLITICO Playbook - POLITICO.com:

EXCLUSIVE : Las Vegas is one of the RNC's finalists for the 2016 convention, and plenty of Republicans are calling it the favorite, based on the hope that casino magnate Sheldon Adelson would contribute generously, obviating the financial worries that plague most host committees. But Playbook has learned that American Bridge, the Democratic tracking and opposition research outfit founded by David Brock and run by Brad Woodhouse, plans to devote up to three dozen trackers with video cameras to Sin City if the GOP picks it. American Bridge has committed to deploy what a source called a 'tracking operation on steroids' to cover the plethora of venues sure to attract Republican politicians and operatives.

Per a Democratic source: 'American Bridge's plans would scatter trackers with video cameras from one end of the Strip to the other and would include a rapid response war room in the city to turn the footage into instant products -- even potentially television ads -- exposing whatever activities and hypocricies they catch on film. ... American Bridge's efforts ... would be looking to capture everything from the late night carousing of politicians to simply filming candidates who claim to be the bastion of family values entering and exiting bars and casinos.'

--AMERICAN BRIDGE has already opened a website that promises: "[I]f the RNC does choose Las Vegas, this is the site for all the action. What happens in Vegas... will go right here." www.sincitygop.com

--OTHER OPTIONS: Vegas is one of the RNC's eight finalists, along with Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Phoenix and an intriguing three-way Ohio contest among Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus. As an indication of the effort the cities put into their pitches, the political heat that Kansas City deployed for its presentation Monday to the RNC's site selection committee included Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.); Linda Bond, fundraising consultant and wife of former Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.); and Jack Oliver, KC2016 national finance co-chair, former RNC deputy chairman, and now senior policy adviser at Bryan Cave Strategies.