This morning I posted my thoughts in APR about going.
Today is the NC-08 Democratic Convention !
I’m a delegate for Cabarrus County 😄
My problem is there is a Man who has worked hard in Cabarrus County for Democrats, he’s been there running the office since 2006 when I first started helping GOTV. He supports Hillary. I have to enter the Convention Supporting Hillary to vote for him to go to Philly ! I don’t want to do that even though I know she is going to be the nominee ! I’ll vote for her in Nov ! But I don’t want to do it today ! Thierry deserves to go to Philly ! So …………………………………………………. 😕
Here is the link to that comment. I got a couple of interesting replies. www.dailykos.com/…
I was one of the first people to get there, around 9:45 am for a 11:00 am start, to which got pushed back a couple of times.
To be a delegate for this convention I had to go to a Cabarrus County Convention in March. I meet new people in the local Dem Party. That day there was 68 people there, all of us became eligible to go to the Convention today. I think the turn out today from Cabarrus County was 30.
So I entered the gym at a school in Stanley County, I didn’t register right away. I wanted to see who showed up & get a feel of what was going on. It was long & candidates started asking for votes, Nancy asked for my vote on Elector, which there is 15 for NC, this person deals with the Electoral College Vote in Dec. Nancy also was pushing a 50 50 Raffle to help pay some of the days Expenses, it was 5 bucks a ticket. I bought the first ticket !
I then found the Chairwoman of Cabarrus County & spoke to her about Thierry, She too supported Bernie in our NC Primary, She also wanted to support Thierry who is also like 3rd in line in the Dem Cabarrus County party leadership. So it was at that point I made up my mind I would support Hillary so I could vote for Thierry later in the day.
A few minutes later I spotted Jeremy Hachen http://hachen2016.org who is running against Linda Johnson for NC State House 83. Last time we spoke he told me I was the first person to donate to his campaign 😃 ! ! ! Anyway he also told me he voted for Bernie but wanted to support Thierry. Now I was really pumped up for Thierry !
So by now things are rolling along. I’m talking to other people & candidates trying to decide what to do !
I finally said I should take Pictures !
not sure what time it was then but I was disappointed in the turnout !
When I registered I received 6 ballots ! one was for Female another for Male candidates to be delegates in Philly. the other 3 were for other functions leading up to the Philly Convention & the last one was for the Elector.
we had runoffs in one of the first 3. Then we had a run off for the Elector, I was going to vote for Nancy, but the Man who nominated her referred to her as a Yellow Dog ! That canceled her out ! So Harold from Cabarrus County got that job.
it’s 2:30ish by then.
So now they asked us to sit in groups of Bernie & Hillary supporters !
Bernie’s group was to the far right !
I also watched Carl Anderson get the Bernie Delegate vote. She works very hard for the Cabarrus County Dems! She ran the show back in March that I went to. So I was very happy to see her going to Philly, She also told me she knows Bernie’s chances are slim & she would be voting BLUE in Dec, which is very important to me ! I will be doing the same !
Then there is a pause in the action & they pushed the 50 50 raffle ! There was only 305 bucks in it! So I did another 5 bucks !
So the Women went first. there was 7 ladies trying to go ! they were given 3 minutes to talk. The first one was very impressive ! But I made up my mind to support the young lady from Cabarrus county.
Our Ballots had spaces for up too 4 votes ! well they told up only one lady got over 20% which made her eligible. So we moved onto the Men to which there was 5. the first guy up was a College Student who had quite a list of things he has done since he was 11 years old. The second guy I don’t remember much about, the 3rd Man spent some money to try to go ! He had water & candy with his name on it & also had a sign he put up in the parking lot John was a Lawrey who specialized in voter issues. the 4th guy had done a lot to elect Dem’s in his county also, Then it was Thierry’s turn ! He had his list & he also spoke of how he was a Tracker who had Gov McCrory hating him, He also mentioned he would be doing the same with Trump ! Thierry is also from Belgium ! So he talk about being an Immigrant !
During the pause of counting the men’s vote they did the 50 50 raffle drawing ! The guy says I can’t read the guys writing ! then He says Steve b a k & I crack up laughing ! the second ballot I filled out I was in a hurry & made a mess of my name ! I won 225 bucks ! LOL
Then they announce there was a mistake on the women’s tally & there would be a run off.
Next they announced the results of the Men’s It was Thierry against Lawyer John !
they did a vote on the lady run off first. The same person was the winner ! Yeah I’m bad on names.
They then ask us to clean up while they counted the men’s vote, I helped pick up the garbage, then I walked up to the people running the show & asked if I could give them 25 bucks toward the days bills, They took it.
I also told Jeremy I would be sending him 50 bucks when I got home !
Thomas Mills was there & spoke early in the convention because he needed to go to another scheduled appearance ! Thomas will get a 50 also.
I’ll spend the rest on politics ! dailykos will get some love !
It was a great experience ! I’ll make sure I do it again !
SORRY
Thierry won !