County Convention

Yesterday was the Nueces County Democratic Convention. Lone Star Pa and I had agreed to be alternates, somewhat under duress as we really didn't want to go due to the childrearing responsibilities of the day. We figured we could help the precinct round out its slots, though, and that we probably would not have to go, as alternates. We got tons of telephone calls in the latter part of the week from people from our precinct's delegation who wanted to make sure that we would have enough people there. I agreed that we would go sign in, so that there would be a good count of Obama supporters, and handed out my cell phone number so that if some of the actual delegates left and they really needed us to come vote on something, we could. We headed over to the high school yesterday and it was very crowded - again, a crazy amount more than had ever attended in previous years. We had to wait in line forever to sign in and get our credentials, but it was stirring to see so many people taking an active part in the democratic process. Once we had our credentials, we went looking for our precinct. There were enough delegates and alternates there to fill the needed delegate slots, so we left, and they never called us, so I suppose that things went well.