Well, I'd love to go into great detail right now, but I'm so tired I can't even be excited.
Last night it was slamming the phones, strategizing, compiling our lists drinking beer til 5am, then switching to coffee at 5:30am, fell asleep at computer for one hour, went to the caucus setup our table for our "front" group, with the laptop, our "Conservative Values" logo, courtesy of Brandon, printed out on stickers.
I was told this was the biggest caucus they've had there by regulars. We won the chairmanship 72-59 even though their nominee was supported by all the old guard, even some local/state politicians were there.
So to summarize we got 252 delegates out of 274 possible. The only reason they got any is because they basically acknowledged we had the majority and they realized that the only way they would be going to the Conventions is if they kissed my ass (I was head of rules committee and I had no idea what I was doing lol) I said if we had any empty slots on our slate they could fill them. Well, after the recess we filled all of our slots. So then this one guy starts whining and saying we're all Republicans and Christians (I'm an atheist) and we should work together blah blah. Then he tried to be sneaky and say the motion he was passing would only fill in the blanks when the actual verbage of his motion would've allowed those in attendance to have preference over anyone on our delegate list that wasn't there. We caugh him red handed and then he had to change. Well, I motioned to concede 10 spots on our slate for them, because I'm nice, but he didn't like that, he wanted 13. He threw his voter card thing at the chair and stormed out leaving his hat behind!
We have the first hour on video when the room was the most packed so I'm interested to see the video. I was there from 8:30am-3:00pm!!
We passed all kinds of amendments to the platform, it was amazing. Deb, if you want to fill in the details for now, I'm good with that. I'm absolutely exhausted.
We did incredibly well, beyond my wildest dreams. And the revolution continues....
PS I'll have a more detailed account of the events sometime soon. It was a 5 hour event so it could take a minute
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