Convention Time – 66B Edition

I attended my House District convention – 66B – last night at Falcon Heights City Hall.

We had a few fewer people than the Ron Paul-swollen 2008 turnout, but it was pretty solid, and uncommonly well-informed, I thought.  Lots of tea partiers mixed it up with some of the stalwarts,  making an interesting mix of people.

Of our seven delegates selected to go to the CD4 convention next month, an informal survey showed five were at least initially committed to Tom Emmer.

As to the resolutions – normally both the most time-consuming and least-productive part of the conventions?   Things clipped along pretty fast – we voted for blocks of resolutions, paying individual attention only to the ones that people chose to debate indivually, maybe a quarter of the suggestions that came up from the caucuses.

The parts I thought were interesting:

  • Gone were the endless pro-life resolutions.  No, no change in heart – but I suspect most people genuinely believe that the MNGOP’s platform is sufficiently anti-infanticide.
  • There was, however, a resolution to remove the pro-death-penalty plank in the state party platform.  While it’ll no doubt die on its way up the food chain, it was interesting in that it passed the district convention by a close margin – for conservative reasons.
  • Someone – not me – had actually gotten resolution forwarded from the caucuses that seconded John LaPlante’s idea (which I enthusiastically endorse) of erasing the state platform and replacing it with a short statement of princples.  It failed, I believe, but only barely.  2012 is the year.

Onward and upward!

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