{"id":9015,"date":"2010-03-03T08:12:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T13:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2010-03-04T09:49:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T14:49:39","slug":"convention-time-66b-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9015","title":{"rendered":"Convention Time – 66B Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended my House District convention – 66B – last night at Falcon Heights City Hall.<\/p>\n

We had a few fewer people than the Ron Paul-swollen 2008 turnout, but it was pretty solid, and uncommonly well-informed, I thought.\u00a0 Lots of tea partiers mixed it up with some of the stalwarts,\u00a0 making an interesting mix of people.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

As to the resolutions – normally both the most time-consuming and least-productive part of the conventions?\u00a0\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The parts I thought were interesting:<\/p>\n