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democracy in action
May. 9th, 2004 12:47 pmStill no new house. Foo.
Went to the Democratic county convention this year. I was surly, but since the Republican party has become too viciously anti-queer for me to try to work from the inside anymore, I didn't really have any choice. Time to try pulling the D side towards liberty, I guess.
As expected, they were even less organised than the Republicans. Ron Sims's speech was pretty good, as political speeches go; he sounded like he actually stood for something HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA sorry. But he did. Of course, everyone knows better; he's such a weasel.
I was there for the platform, of course. I actually got to talk a little, and while I was there, we got the gay-marriage-issue plank moved from wishy-washy to strong, and the abortion rights plank strengthened. Looking over the list of items held open for debate, I calculated it'd take 19 hours to get through it all, and 10 hours to get to the gun-registration thing I wanted to try to take out - and in practice, it was taking even longer, which is dead-on typical in my experience with Republican platform debates as well.
Then I had to bail early (after only six hours... gah...) to go to the final Norwescon 27 concom meeting - that's the big postcon wrapup, so it was important. I'm nominated for Guest of Honour selection committee, and had to show up as a candidate too. I don't think I'll win, which is fine by me, honestly; this year's going to be more complicated than that. I went to the post-meeting social to see how the voting was going to turn out and in case anyone wanted to ask me any questions; nobody did, and I ended up having to leave because almost two hours after voting ended, they still didn't have a count. I did get kind of annoyed when I went upstairs to ask whether they were almost done (since I had to leave - it was late and a long drive back home) and before I could even say anything, Keith yelled "WE'RE VOTING" at me and literally slammed the door in my face.
Keith can be kind of a jerk.
Anyway, that ended up being 14 and a half hours of politics, more or less. Politics sucks. I'm glad I don't have to do any of it today.
EDIT: Biked out to another house to look at it. Nice bike ride, uninteresting house. Wow, I'm tired. Still no house.
Went to the Democratic county convention this year. I was surly, but since the Republican party has become too viciously anti-queer for me to try to work from the inside anymore, I didn't really have any choice. Time to try pulling the D side towards liberty, I guess.
As expected, they were even less organised than the Republicans. Ron Sims's speech was pretty good, as political speeches go; he sounded like he actually stood for something HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA sorry. But he did. Of course, everyone knows better; he's such a weasel.
I was there for the platform, of course. I actually got to talk a little, and while I was there, we got the gay-marriage-issue plank moved from wishy-washy to strong, and the abortion rights plank strengthened. Looking over the list of items held open for debate, I calculated it'd take 19 hours to get through it all, and 10 hours to get to the gun-registration thing I wanted to try to take out - and in practice, it was taking even longer, which is dead-on typical in my experience with Republican platform debates as well.
Then I had to bail early (after only six hours... gah...) to go to the final Norwescon 27 concom meeting - that's the big postcon wrapup, so it was important. I'm nominated for Guest of Honour selection committee, and had to show up as a candidate too. I don't think I'll win, which is fine by me, honestly; this year's going to be more complicated than that. I went to the post-meeting social to see how the voting was going to turn out and in case anyone wanted to ask me any questions; nobody did, and I ended up having to leave because almost two hours after voting ended, they still didn't have a count. I did get kind of annoyed when I went upstairs to ask whether they were almost done (since I had to leave - it was late and a long drive back home) and before I could even say anything, Keith yelled "WE'RE VOTING" at me and literally slammed the door in my face.
Keith can be kind of a jerk.
Anyway, that ended up being 14 and a half hours of politics, more or less. Politics sucks. I'm glad I don't have to do any of it today.
EDIT: Biked out to another house to look at it. Nice bike ride, uninteresting house. Wow, I'm tired. Still no house.
