I met my Superdelegates in San Francisco
After my trip to Hollywood, I suppose it is only appropriate that I journey to ‘Gay Mecca’, the great city of San Francisco. Actually just the hotel just outside of the airport.
Fri. 6/13/2008
To allow my spouse to take me to the airport, I missed the speed dating, er, campaigning of some 60 party folk who want presidential candidate calls at 3am. 19 spots are available. I had an interesting flight when I began to smell smoke in the cabin. Turns out it was the fires up here. (BIG WHEW!)
I missed DNC Chair, Governor Howard Dean but I was assured he was as engaging and wonderful as always.
Sat 6/14/2008
There are 3 Orange County guys running - David Sonnebourn, Henry Vandermier and Steve Young. On the woman side, DPOC ED, Melahat Rafiei. Not from OC, but CDP Regional Director (16) John Smith. The big speakers for the morning were Lt. Governor, John Garamendi (Acting Governor this weekend) and Attorney General, Jerry Brown. The highlight of the morning session was the airing of the winning video for Summer of Change 08 as well as the runners up. My personal favorite was number 3.
I spent some time in Rules Committee, I won’t go into the nitty gritty but we will be completing the protocol for the next ADEM reorganization in January 2009. When the details are approved, I will let you know. The other item I got was from Platform Committee Chair advising all of us, especially our candidates to review the CDP Platform
Sunday, 06/15/08
The real drama was on Sunday. First we get up and vote for our favorite 19 candidates to be a DNC Representative for the 2009-2012 Election Cycle. I got through the...
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