State Convention Delegate Roll Call Here!

[TexasThoughtCriminal]

I'll be there as a delegate from Senate District 23.
See you all in Fort Worth!!:dem:

[sonias]

1. Me too - SD25

Sweet!
:woohoo:

DU Caucus here we come!

Sonia

[WolverineDG]

2. Me!

:hi: from lil ol' Webb County, where we UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution in support of HB 2239 & S 1980 (?? if the numbers are right; it's the "we hate electronic machines & demand paper ballots" resolution")!

BTW, folks here are pissed off at how the problems in Webb County were portrayed in the media vs. how they were portrayed when they occurred in other counties (like Tarrant). Problems in Webb County? Oh, it MUST be due to corruption & stupid people. Same, if not worse, problems in the other counties? Oh, it was just the machines. :grr:

dg

[sonias]

5. Great news Wolverine!

Still coming to Austin at the beginning of April?

Sweetie, the media blasted many counties for these machines. Did you see my DU post on media coverage of the e-voting failures?

Texas counties and related voting problems during 2006 primary
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x29066

Jefferson beat Webb on media coverage.

Sonia

[WolverineDG]

13. Yes, I'll still be there

And yes, I saw your post. However, the difference is I don't recall seeing anything in the SA paper, local rag, other media, or on DU blasting the people of Jefferson County for being stupid and/or corrupt. I take umbrage that it is just automatically assumed Webb County is corrupt and/or stupid just because a certain race didn't turn out the way most of us had hoped. The response to what happened in other counties was automatically "It's the machines! We told you so" whereas in Webb County, the reaction was "Yeah, right it was the machines!"

dg

[muse]

3. Me, too Senate District 17

[WestHoustonDem]

4. SD7 reporting for duty!

We had a Repug troll at our convention. What a bitch!

[muse]

6. read my post - Senate District Conventions

We had a bit of a problem on a few issues - reproductive rights for womenn and stem cell research - from one guy that I swear were closet republican type stuff. Grrr.

[WestHoustonDem]

7. This bitch came in wearing a designer suit with accessories that

all matched and pulled out her leather bound legal pad holder and took notes. She objected to almost all of the progressive resolutions. :puke:

[muse]

8. You need margaritas tonight.

Just a suggestion.

:)

What a PAIN!

[WestHoustonDem]

9. Great thought, but I have to got the Fall Out Boys concert

at Reliant tonight? I bought tickets for my daughter and Lisa and me several months ago, not knowing it was the day of the SD conventions AND the DVO whistle stop at Drexler's. If it gets out early enough, we will stop for drinks on the way home for sure, but we have to be out of here by 9am tomorrow because I'm flying to NY in the morning to help my mom with my dad who's having surgery tomorrow.

[muse]

10. BTW, I want to go to the Progressive Forum thing

with you and Lisa next time.

Molly Ivins. Let's plan on it.

And Al Gore the next time!

I bet yall had fun.

[WestHoustonDem]

11. We did. Lisa and already have tickets in the $30 section

we bought a package deal which assigns a seating area, but not specific seats, so you could buy a ticket and meet us there. Al Gore tickets go on sale at the Molly Ivins event. We can all buy them together.

[WestHoustonDem]

33. Got my margaritas after all

The concert was a trip. Everyone (except Lisa) was under 18 or over 40 chaperoning the under 18 year-olds.

[merci_me]

12. Couldn't have been me............

unless you count my "designer" Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and white t-shirt with matching white Reaboks. But I did have a leather bound legal pad, where tried to compose a grocery list, during some of the painfully dull amendment discussions.

LOL, I should have turned around to see her face, when Hank Gilbert said we were going to turn Texas Blue and "run the damn whores out of Austin".

[WestHoustonDem]

29. No Mary, it was you, LOL

She was actually taking notes on everything that was said. I think her purse was Prada and I doubt she has a pair of jeans.

Emily got a good photo of her, so she will be identified.

[cannabis_flower]

26. Yep,

I remember, I was there too. I was on the resolutions committee and was the one wearing my Kucinich t-shirt from 2004.

I'll be a delegate from SD 7 too.

[WestHoustonDem]

31. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Now I know who your are CF!

And I'm sure you know me. I was the person giving out DVO stickers who wasn't Rachel Van Os.

[cannabis_flower]

40. I do...

but I can't remember your name. I'm Tammera Halphen.

[cannabis_flower]

41. I've been meaning...

to go to the West Houston Democrats meeting but I usually stay up late on Friday's and oversleep. I live right off Westheimer and Dunvale. Precinct 312.

[liveoaktx]

14. Senate District 22- I'm an alternate, hub is a delegate

[CoolOnion]

15. 23rd--I'm the alternate this time

Another faithful activist is the delegate this year--we've decided to switch delegate/alternate every other year.

We're looking forward to seeing everybody in Ft. Worth!

[GOPisEvil]

16. Me, me! Representing SD 14!

:kick:

[VelmaD]

37. Ditto

and hopefully I'll get on a committee again. It was fun last time. :)

[NoPasaran]

17. I'll be there

From Senate District 25
:dem:

[Avalux]

18. Delegate here - SD 26.

I posted in the other thread about the convention; I swear we had a couple of closet Republicans too. :hi:

[Melissa G]

19. Hoping to go at large from SD 25...

Have yet to hear...Any DUers know if I made it?

[NoPasaran]

21. I was on the nominations committee

I don't remember everyone who was selected as a delegate---but at the very least you are an at-large alternate and we expected that practically all the alternates who actually came to State would end up elevated to full delegate. So... plan on going to Fort Worth.
:hi:

[Melissa G]

23. Thanks for your help, NoPasaran!

Thanks to all the other DUers who served also!
Great seeing all the Austin DU crowd!
:hi: :kick:

[liveoaktx]

27. Question: Can an alternate attend the delegate meetings?

[WestHoustonDem]

30. Our SDEC folks told us that everyone from our district that

showed up would have full access. I think it depends on your SD chair.

[NoPasaran]

36. Most likely, yes

I remember that pre-convention meetings we had in Travis county in 2004 were open to both delegates and alternates.

[crispini]

20. SD16 delegate here.

I think the rest of our group is still at the bar. :beer:

[NoPasaran]

22. Nothing like a refreshing beverage

After a hard day of conventioneering!
:beer:

[muse]

24. I finished my day at a house party with Nick Lampson

How fun is THAT?!!!

:)

He is so cool. He is such a regular guy. We have got to get him elected. He is qualified beyond belief to represent congressional district 22.

This was a great Saturday!!

[johncoby2]

25. Me. SD11. Our convention sucked. Again.

It is really a turn off for the new people. I dont know what to do about it.

[Smarty Pants Liberal]

28. You fought the good fight

I heard about your convention. Turn into something positive. I heard your candidate for delegation chair only lost by three votes. Pretty good for a newcomer running against someone who has been running the convention for umpteen billion years.

At least you didn't have a consultant pop up early in the morning and set a divisive tone for the rest of the day by telling just a few key players that a resolution that didn't exist was going to be pushed through the committee. I've heard that even SD15 had a more amiable convention than ours. The positive outcome of the consultant's spin is that the key players are beginning to realize that the consultant is full of crap.

[WestHoustonDem]

32. Tell us more SPL!

pm or email me if you don't care to share it here.

[Smarty Pants Liberal]

34. The chair did a fantastic job

The convention ran smoothly until the report of the resolutions committee. Lots of uneccesary posturing and attempts to run over the chair - his first convention - but thank goodness the chair knows his stuff. He made a couple of mistakes and admitted it but sheez, he was getting hammered from both sides. One person that I consider a friend and who knows Robert's Rules of Order very well took advantage of their time at the microphone and created a little unecessary drama over a section of the report of the resolutions committee and later a minority report. Another person who has been around forever and a day was just plain dramatic about the convention and the Party in general thanks to the consultant putting the bug in enough folks' ears. The icing on the cake was when someone who calls themself the chair's mentor suggested (at the microphone) that the chair didn't know what he was doing and should appoint a couple of people to be parliamentarians. The chair of the resolutions committee then swiftly pointed out that he and the chair of the convention are both certified parliamentarians.

I'd give the convention an A- though and the minus goes to the posturing delegates who have been around long enough to know better. The chair did a fantastic job and it is my understanding that we adjourned earlier than has ever been done in the past.

[derby378]

35. ginbarn sez: "Yo!"

She's been elected a state delegate from SD16. Yours truly gets to tag along as her alternate.

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[crispini]

38. K&R -- this could use more recs! I'd love to see it on Greatest!

[sonias]

39. K&R

Sonia

[robbzipp]

42. I'll be there!

Representin' SD 6, Democracy for Houston and the Harris County Young Democrats!

[redqueen]

43. I'll be there from SD 30!

:D

[Vincardog]

44. Me too redqueen I am your alternate

[redqueen]

45. John?

Is that you?

[Vincardog]

46. No that is not my dog name

[Maestro]

47. Ignorant question.

How do you get to go?

[harpo]

48. Precinct/County conventions...people get nominated and vote

the rules are here:

http://www.txdemocrats.org/files/Rules2006.pdf

[crispini]

51. Your precinct convention is held the night of the primary

at your voting place. Delegates from your precinct go to your Senatorial District, and are elected from there to state.

[PDittie]

49. SD-13 will have 321 delegates

the Ditties are two of them.

All delegates were promoted to full voting status and we still had slots left over. Everyone who wanted to became a delegate.

King Kong ain't got nothin' on us.

[crispini]

50. 321 full voting delegates?

Damn. I thought 183 was a lot.

[TexasLinda]

52. I'm going from SD 20