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Nov 13, 2008 7:26 pm US/Eastern
DeFede: Sarah-Palooza Comes to Miami
MIAMI BEACH (CBS4) ―
The Republican Governors Association annual meeting turned into something I like to call, Sarah-Palooza.
Sarah Palin's presence at this year's conference has turned what would normally be a fairly staid political event into a media free for all, with dozens of camera crews from across the country and indeed around the world, descending on the governor's confab.
"Most Japanese are very interested in her," said Tsuyoshi Masuda, a correspondent for NHK, a Japanese broadcasting network. "She looks so beautiful."
Republican Bertica Cabrera Morris, waited for more than an hour outside the room where Palin recorded her interview with Larry King Wednesday, hoping to get a picture with the governor. Instead she was nearly trampled by the press.
"I saw her hair and I saw her glasses and they looked great," Morris said Wednesday, adding, "I know I need to have a better strategy for this picture."
The press didn't fare much better. A press conference Thursday morning was limited to just four questions.
I had hoped to get one question in myself, but was shut out.
If you are at all curious as to what I was trying to ask her during the press conference it was this: Given Florida's history with alligator and wild boar and turkeys and deer, I was just curious, was there any particular Florida wildlife she wanted to hunt, kill or wrestle?
Luckily, I was able to catch up later with Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas and get his thoughts on a Palin hunting adventure in Florida.
"Well I don't know what her answer might be, but we'd certainly get the proper license," he said with a laugh.
The Palin victory tour wasn't greeted entirely warmly by all of her fellow governors. Several governors seemed annoyed by the attention being paid to Palin.
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist denied there was any resentment by the other governors toward Palin.
"No, not at all, no, no," he said sounding somewhat flabbergasted by the thought.
On a positive note, the just before the conference ended, Bertica Morris finally got her picture with the governor
"It was a wonderful moment," she said, showing off the snapshot on her digital camera. "It was a lot of fun
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