That was the cab ride mantra on a good day here. Making themselves right at home in a city where traffic tops everyone's list of complaints, convention delegates stashed at hotels in every direction almost instinctively took up the refrain. Los Angeles, as anyone who has traveled its numbered freeways knows, is a far-flung city. Forget a central core.
Downtown is dead after business hours.
I don't think it has been conducive to a spirit of unity,'' said Christopher Daigle, a delegate from New Orleans. The other problem, Daigle said, was crowd control, which in some instances seemed overzealous. And I think that's contrary to what our party stands for. LA is opposite what our party stands for.'' After President Clinton spoke Monday night, thousands of convention-goers were herded outside, all of them, it seemed, trying reach a party at Paramount Studios about 5 miles away. But the shuttle buses refused to let people board.