County Conventions Liveblogged on Twitter
Today are the Texas and California county Democratic conventions (with one Texas exception, happening tomorrow), and some of my twitter buds are liveblogging via Twitter. Here’s an excerpt from @lnewcomer‘s (web site here) live stream:
- Compared america to a burning house. He repeats the unity stuff
- Obama will bring us todether, heal us & lead us to the future. Obama crowd way louder. 2 minutes ago from txt
- Slow start. Obama crowd gets into it. 5 minutes ago from txt
- Ron kirk for obama. 6 minutes ago from txt
- Repeats hillary wont be getting out. 7 minutes ago from txt
- Biggest crowd response so far. Ends w/ more unity stuff 8 minutes ago from txt
- Wow. Terry mccauliffe here to talk for hillary. Sounds hoarse as always 10 minutes ago from txt
- M&m break 11 minutes ago from txt
- They want us to sing ‘Happy Days are Here Again’. A little bit of camelot. We’re ignoring the suggestion 14 minutes ago from txt
- Judge Charlie Baird to the front. Must have a defendant that needs a ridiculously light sentence 18 minutes ago from txt
- Lol. They’ve asked for Huggies diapers 20 minutes ago from txt
- We’ve started the wave 21 minutes ago from txt
- Also they’ve brought in more port a potties & opened another conc stand 21 minutes ago from txt
- They’re asking for a travis co. Dist jtdge for some reason. 23 minutes ago from txt
- All affected precincts w/ probs have to narc on themselves before we can proceed 24 minutes ago from txt
- Chaos about to ensue 26 minutes ago from txt
- Chaos about to emsue 27 minutes ago from txt
- Still dealing w/ too many credentials given out than allotted. 28 minutes ago from txt
- Tx senate dist 14 still dealing w/ credentials challenges 29 minutes ago from txt
Momocrats Socalmom (Donna) and Glennia are at the California State Convention (which you can also view via webcast at their web site) are also liveblogging:
Glennia:
- Speeches seem to cover the same topics: education, Iraq, global warming, healthcare. Beat McCain. about 2 hours ago from web
- John Garamendi gave a good speech. Hit the highlights. No body has beaten Jerry Brown. He rocks AND rolls. about 2 hours ago from web
- Next up: Cal Controller John Chiang. about 3 hours ago from web
Donna is sending updates to the blog.
It’s all very interesting and in the case of Texas, in particular, is a real exercise in civics. We never learned stuff about the kind of efforts at voter suppression that have gone on in Texas in school. Eye-opening stuff. JavaJenn will be blogging her experience at Collin County’s convention — the only one postponed until tomorrow because of issues with venue and accessibility.
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