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Random Thoughts On The TDP Convention

Sadly, I wasn’t able to blog much of the TDP convention on Saturday. Unlike last year when I blogged non-stop, pressing business as one of the seemingly 9.5 million delegates roaming around the Austin Convention Center (motto: “Function in no way inhibits form!”) kept me from the laptop on Saturday from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. when I was serving as one of the convention chair’s three appointees to the Resolutions Committee. Except for a few brief breaks and a recess to vote for state party chair, we were busy. When we finally adjourned around six, the thought of bringing out the laptop and blogging the remainder of the convention simply was not an inviting one.

With hindsight being 20/20, I do wish I had blogged–especially when word hit the convention floor that the caucuses of the At-Large Delegate Nominations Committee were meeting behind closed–nay, locked–doors. I did, media pass in hand, along with a reporter from the MSM, follow State Rep. Terri Hodge to where the locked-door meeting was. It had allegedly adjourned although I personally witnessed people leaving the locked-door room after this small group tried to gain access to it. There was something very un-kosher about locked-door meetings of the candidate caucuses of this committee we’ll no doubt hear more about in coming days.

I was also one of the at least 1,000 people crammed into the “well” of the convention center in front of the stage and around the microphones when the battle royal erupted about rejecting the committee’s report. And, for the record, there were a number of Clinton supporters–myself included–down there. Oddly enough, I found myself standing next to former Dallas City Councilman Al Lipscomb. In spite of Mr. Lipscomb’s legal troubles in the last decade, he is still a revered civil rights legend in Dallas. I introduced myself to him, which was interesting, given that for most of my life–even not living in Dallas–Al Lipscomb is always someone I’ve read about in the newspaper or seen on Dallas TV stations.

Additional ‘random thoughts:’ [With lots of tongue in cheek]

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Sen. Watson’s Address From The TDP Convention

During Sen. Watson’s address Friday night, Capitol Annex must have been taking a bathroom break. No, seriously…we never could find the bathrooms in the convention center (as one of my fellow bloggers said about the Austin Convention Center, “function in no way inhibits form”) and every time we tried, someone tried to hand us buckets of LaRouche material and, frankly, scared us.

Really, we were trying to upload a video (a process we thought would be much easier and less distracting than it actually was), and ended up missing all but a few paragraphs. We may have also been hypnotized by “the dress” and wandering around the convention center aimlessly…can’t say for sure.

At any rate, the Senator was kind enough to note our difficulty and send us a copy of the address, which was quite good (we heard it, we just couldn’t blog it because of that uploading problem) and is posted below. You can also watch the video here.

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Chelsea Clinton’s Address

We’ didn’t liveblog it, but we’ve got pictures:

She actually got on bended knee and shook hands with the throngs of Democrats lining the stage. She was totally amazing. [Nate Nance says: "Chelsea Clinton's Hot. Muy Caliente!"]

Address By Rick Noriegato 2008 TDP Convention

“Good evening Texas. I am here as your Democratic Nominee for the United State Senate in the 21st century Texas Democratic Party.”

More to come. (Update: Full text below)

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“Our Time Has Come”

“Our Time Has Come,” Congressman Al Green just announced, noting it has been many years but Democrats are poised and ready to take back Texas. He is in the process of introducing Rick Noriega. “Rick’s Time Has Come!”

“Not only is Rick a person of character and competence, he is a person of great passion. He helped nearly 30,000 Katrina survivors. He will work to secure Social Security. He won’t privatize it, he’ll revitalize it. Rick will fight to make the minimum wage a living wage and he will not only leave no child behind, he will leave no teacher behind. Teachers will get a decent day’s pay for a decent day’s work. Not only is Rick a person and compassion and character and competence, he is a person of great courage. He is a person who has the courage to fight and win a war but also he has the courage to fight to end the war and bring out troops home–safely and soundly. Rick will fight for our troops.”

Chelsea Clinton Back Stage

Chelsea Clinton waves at Capitol Annex back stage at the Convention:

Rick Noriega Video

This video about Rick Noriega is showing right now to convention attendees. We were just back stage to see Chelesea Clinton! We’ll publish a photo in a second.

Brief Video From National Anthem

The conclusion of the National Anthem–a great singer:

The Atmosphere

The atmosphere int he hall is electric. This is a thousand-percent difference from Fort Worth was like in 2006. It is amazing.

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