Is Everybody Happy???

I guess so. Well, maybe.

First, just the facts. Friday was a grueling day at the convention, a day that didn’t end until past 1 am for most delegates.

Our 2 pm SD12 caucus meeting began with promotions from alternate to delegate, 16 on the Clinton side and 14 on the Obama side. That took about two hours to accomplish, though should have taken maybe 30 minutes. Then, once seated we chose a Chair to preside over the remainder of our meeting.

Our next tasks, all to be accomplished by 5 pm, were to choose committee representatives for this convention from among SD 12, platform, nominations, rules, regulations, credentials, etc., plus our SDEC male and female representatives (State Democratic Executive Committee) plus our presidential elector, and then also our respective Obama and Clinton national delegates.

By the time 5 pm rolled around we had barely started. We recessed for the first general convention session about 5:45, with the plan of returning after the general session to finish our business.

The general session was great, but long. We heard Boyd Richie, Kirk Watson, Rick Noriega, Chelsea Clinton, the entire Texas State House of Representatives, Tom Kaine and many others. The tone for the session was set during the invocation, which was a supposed prayer of invocation that droned on like someone was reading a platform committee report rather than inviting our Creator’s presence. My opinion, anyway. Entirely unnecessary.

Then, finally, around 11:00 pm we worked our way back to our SD12 breakout caucus meeting, we elected our representatives and adjourned around 1:10 am.

The good news. Healing. Unity, or the beginnings of it. AND, Kathleen Thompson was elected National Female Delegate from SD12!!

I only had time for the facts in this post, but I’ll follow later with some commentary and details on today’s activities.

Off to the next session.