The RP Speaks at the DNC…Twelve Years Ago

By RP Staff, on Thu Sep 6, 2012 at 9:00 AM ET

On the last evening of the 2000 Democratic National Convention, as the newly elected State Treasurer of Kentucky and a former staffer of the party’s presidential nominee, The RP spoke for three minutes in near-prime-time about his mentor and friend, Al Gore. It would be the highlight of his political career — he’d suffer through a decade more in the muck, never to be on such a large stage.