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Mar. 3rd, 2004 06:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lsandersonAfter spending rather more time than it should have required trying to work the DFL website to find David and Laura's precinct caucus location, I went to what ustta be my precinct and caucus only to get chucked out. Very embarrassing for an election judge. (I got chucked out by one of the judges that I work with too.) I'm back in 6-2, which was at Whittier Park and huge. 6-1 was in the church on 28th & Garfield and quite small. Pack o' idiots at 6-2 -- defeated my motion to forward resolutions on to the SD convention. The Secretary of State (another idiot that should be sent back to her village) website actually has software that can find your polling place. The DFL certainly does not.
There was a rather sharp woman, who got defeated as chair, leaving the convener in charge (he won the election). Passed around a sign-up sheet for delegates to the SD convention. First signers got to be delegates, late signers get to be alternates. Then they started the black hole of resolutions. I hate to be so skeptical, but all the ward and precincts spend countless hours battling over fine print in two hundred resolutions, one quarter of which are totally whacko. Then then give up at some point and send them on to the SD convention, which run them all through a blender and comes up with 100 resolutions only 25 of which are totally whacko. At some point the SD convention gives up on resolutions and passes them on to the state DFL convention, which runs another 200 resolutions through a blender, fights over the small print, gives up, and passes them on to the national convention, where they run them through a blender and pronounce it a platform. I've seen newbies practically in tears at the SD convention to find that their carefully worded resolution got shredded by the blender and just does not quite mean what they fought so long and hard over at the precinct caucus.
Now, since my name was near the top of the list, all I gotta do is find the SD convention's date... That should be easy you say...
There was a rather sharp woman, who got defeated as chair, leaving the convener in charge (he won the election). Passed around a sign-up sheet for delegates to the SD convention. First signers got to be delegates, late signers get to be alternates. Then they started the black hole of resolutions. I hate to be so skeptical, but all the ward and precincts spend countless hours battling over fine print in two hundred resolutions, one quarter of which are totally whacko. Then then give up at some point and send them on to the SD convention, which run them all through a blender and comes up with 100 resolutions only 25 of which are totally whacko. At some point the SD convention gives up on resolutions and passes them on to the state DFL convention, which runs another 200 resolutions through a blender, fights over the small print, gives up, and passes them on to the national convention, where they run them through a blender and pronounce it a platform. I've seen newbies practically in tears at the SD convention to find that their carefully worded resolution got shredded by the blender and just does not quite mean what they fought so long and hard over at the precinct caucus.
Now, since my name was near the top of the list, all I gotta do is find the SD convention's date... That should be easy you say...
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Date: 2004-03-03 02:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-03 07:09 pm (UTC)I have nothing against whacko resolutions, I just wanted the caucus to complete it's slate of deligates, announce when the Senate District Convention was & where, and then it could commence all of the silliness required of a DFL caucus.
Instead, I went home and e-mailed the SD chair and watched CNN.
Then I retired to my cabin in the woods aerie/Tut's tomb and went to bed.