PUMA Power?

The PUMA gals are hosting a conference in DC in early August to scheme plan for the Democratic Convention.

Here's the deal:



Okay, so they're offering 250 - that's two hundred and fifty - slots at the bargain price of $250. This deal is first-come, first-served - once they get 250 people - that's two hundred and fifty - signed up, it's assumed that the price will go up.

Now, the first reference I found to this conference on Google Blog Search was on July 15th:

Conflucians and PUMAs, maybe you’ve already booked your flight and made your hotel/campsite reservation for Denver but what will you be doing once you get there? And what is PUMA all about anyway? What is our purpose? Are we a movement? A new party?

Those are questions we are attempting to answer and for this purpose, the instigators of the PUMA movement propose an organizing meeting in Washington DC. The Pre-Convention PUMA Conference (PCPC) will be held on August 8-10 at the Marriott Wardham Hotel, the scene of the crime.

The purpose of PCPC will be to organize PUMA for the purposes of the Denver convention and to define our role going forward.

That was 6 days ago. The deal is still posted on the PUMA Conference web site as I type this, so presumably, it's still available.

So riddle me this - how come it's been almost a week and they haven't managed to scare up (and I DO mean "scare") 250 folks to attend this conference?

I thought the PUMA's were a force to be reckoned with. They're going to pay down Hillary's campaign debt. They're going to persuade Super Delegates to switch from Barack to Hillary so that she ends up being the nominee in November.

And failing all that (ahem), they will see to it that Barack loses and John McBush becomes 404 44.

So how come there aren't 250 - that's two hundred and fifty - PUMA's who can scrape up $250 for this all-important conference?

Inquiring minds want to know.

Really, we want to know.