With the debate train rolling into town along with hordes of mainstream media cameras, the city apparently didn’t want visitors greeted by such an unsightly mess. So dump trucks and city workers were dispatched to load everything up and move the homeless and their belongings away from the prying eyes of the national press. The "National Press" knows the 'homeless horror' is caused by misplaced BS 'liberal compassion' so the homeless didn't have to be moved - the press would have walked over them without seeing them.