Bonds to DCist: You Can't Sit Here

3:42 p.m.: I just arrived on the floor of the Pepsi Center to watch the roll call at the Democratic National Convention, and went directly to the seat I've been using all week when I'm sitting with the D.C. delegation. I'm supposed to be able to sit in this particular seat because it's the only one that reaches the ethernet cable allocated to me as the official blogger for the District's delegation. But when I arrived, D.C. Democratic Party chair Anita Bonds told me she would not allow me to sit in this seat tonight, since she wants to seat District government officials in this row "according to their importance." Right now I'm sitting in the row below, where I can still reach the cable I need, but this seat appears to be technically in the Connecticut section. I'll hang on to my spot as long as I can, but note to organizers of the State Blogger Corps: next time, make sure you tell the heads of each delegation that their blogger must have access to the internet, or else this whole experiment is kind of a waste. UPDATE: To be fair to Bonds, the seat in question was located adjacent to D.C.'s podium in the arena, and had I been sitting there, I would have appeared on camera during the roll call vote. Bonds did just offer to let me move back up now that the vote has been cast.