By Jo Mannies, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 28, 2008 DENVER — U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan remembers 28 years ago when he and several fellow 20-something friends drove to New York to catch some of the doings surrounding the 1980 Democratic presidential convention.”We went as party crashers,” the congressman recalled with a chuckle, igniting laughter from his audience of Missouri delegates at Wednesday’s convention breakfast.