a few more convention details from my SDEC member

[muse]

here are the agenda highlights:
Thursday - preliminary committee meetings for rules, resolutions, platform, credentials beginning at 9 am at the Hilton Hotel. At 2 pm there is a SDEC meeting. From 6 - 8 pm there is the Kick-off Reception, Hilton Hotel. Tickets are $50, $35 if you are a sustaining member. After 8, there will be various parties and hospitality suites.

ON Friday, workshops and caucuses begin at 9 am at the convention center. You may pick up your credentials from 10 am to 2:45 pm in the lobby of the convention center.

We will do two important items of business at this caucus - chose our delegates to the five convention committees and chose our SDEC members, one male and one female. Anyone who wants to run may. It is by self-nomination.

The credential committee will meet Friday evening, the rest of us will go to the convention mail hall for opening formalities, election of permanent convention officers and keynote speeches. That is expected to last to about 10. If we have not finished our work in the caucus, we will go back to work. If we have, we will go party - Chris Bell is having one at The Ashton Depot, 1501 Jones St., two blocks southeast of the Convention Center. They promise plenty of food and drink, plus live music from Wayne "The Train" Hancock. There will be other parities too.

Saturday morning: Committees meet at 8 am. Blue Star breakfast at 8:30. Workshops, more caucuses at 9:30. At 11, the convention reconvenes. We will elect state party officers and vote on committee reports. I expect that the convention will be over by 4 or 5 Saturday

Friday night Speakers
General Wesley Clark
Senator Gonzalo Barrientos, District 14
Rebecca Vigil-Giron, Secretary of State, New Mexico
Texas Senate Delegation
Chris Bell, Democratic Nominee for Governor

Saturday Speakers --
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Candidate for U.S. Senate
Texas Congressional Delegation
Maria Luisa Alvarado, Candidate for Lt. Governor
David Van Os, Candidate for Attorney General
Fred Head, Candidate for Comptroller of Public Accounts
Hank Gilbert, Candidate for Agriculture Commisssioner
VaLinda Hathcox, Candidate for Land Commissioner
Dale Henry, Candidate for Railroad Commissioner
William E. "Bill" Moody, Candidate for Texas Supreme Court, Place 2
J.R. Molina, Candidate for Court of Criminal Appeals, Presiding Judge
(by the way, Harris County Delegates - I will be asking you to take notes and make a short report on each candidate for our Turning Texas Blue - the Plan workshop on June 25)
Jehmu Greene, Executive Director, Rock the Vote
Emmett Sheppard, President, Texas AFL-CIO
Texas House Delegation
Rep. Senfronia Thompson, Candidate for Speaker of the Texas House
Recognition of Judicial Candidates
Michael Lange, Democrats Abroad


She goes on to tell about the process of electing the party chair, but that is a cut and paste from the Maxey email that has been posted here already.

[redqueen]

1. Whaaaa?

I didn't know all that stuff was going on Friday... I thought it all started with the executive committee meething.

Dagnabbit I didn't ask for Thursday off. Grrrrrrr