Rae and Bill volunteered to help with registration. Janice relayed from registration to convention to see that all the Hillary delegates were in their places. Joselyn and Schon exchange looks. :) Joselyn was chair of the Precinct 46 delegation and Schon was chair of 77.
A large crowd of delegates soon arrives.
Dan (sitting at the help desk) was elected chair of the convention and the woman standing beside the grey-haired man was elected secretary. She also chaired the Nominations Committee, if I remember correctly. Dan had worked all night trying to get everything ready for the convention. Registration went well with the help of those like Rae and Bill, who volunteered when they arrived to register. Apparently, the delegate certification process and delegate election certification process were data processing over-loads.
Dick Tyson, in the yellow shirt, made a great volunteer chair before the official convention chair was elected. Dick remembers 1948 when Alvin was a Democratic town and voted to build the Alvin Community College. This part of Texas has been Republican for a long time (a long story, but ask me about it sometime), but now 60 years after the ACC was approved, the Democratic Party is once again big enough to require the facilities of the college as a meeting place.
Here are the Precinct 46 and Precinct 77 delegates.
My daughter-in-law, Madi, was elected Obama State Delegate from Precinct 67. My daughter, Becky, was a delegate from Precinct 51. Note the neat "Hillary 2008" T-shirt Becky is wearing. :)
2008 Texas Democratic Party Convention Snapshots
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