Local Politics Continuing

Back in February at our local DFL caucus I volunteered to be a delegate to our county convention. I figured, "Why not?" It should be interesting.

Last night we had a "training" session for the convention at the local DFL headquarters. Wow. The place was packed. The county convention this coming Saturday is probably the largest ever held in the county. So far there are about 900 delegates scheduled. When you upgrade the alternates in order to give a full convention it will be around 1100 delegates- nearly as large as the state convention will be in June. To say the local DFL leadership is happy is an understatement.

And most of us are new to this whole system. It truly is a grass roots movement. When you work from the type of caucus system that Minnesota has, you run that risk. Newbies get interested in a particular year due to an interesting race and you never know what might come out of it. We will have 54 resolutions we can pass on to the state convention. We will be electing 27 delegates and 27 alternates to that convention. We will be hearing speeches (of course) from both of the DFL US Senate candidates. (Al Franken is the better known one, of course.)

It will be another interesting day in an already more than interesting election year. While the national stuff goes on (and on and on and on...) it is here at the local level that it is also still happening.

I am looking forward to it. I will blog about it afterward and update you on what it's like to be on at least the outside of the inside while all this is happening. I guess you can teach an old dog some new tricks - or at least give him some new experiences.