8:16 P.M. Yesssss! Yes. This blog is over. Time for one drink and a thankless drive back to Cobb. Fired up! Ready to go! Home!
8:09 P.M. I truly hope we are nearing the end of Candidate Speeches Part II. This is all I can handle!
7:44 P.M. Everyone needs to leave the building before I explode from candidate speech overdose (and they’ve started again). Snark fallout is very toxic and can cause random rude remarks, by the way.
7:38 P.M. County awards are going to Chatham, Morgan, Rockdale, and Cobb counties.
7:26 P.M. Jane is recounting her life and career, anecdote by anecdote. I hope we don’t get down to the detail where she played with the Sam Nunn Ken doll as a kid. As an aside, I think this might be one of the biggest GADCC crowds in a good while.
7:15 P.M. We are back underway. I can totally, unequivocally say that the herb potatoes tonight were singlehandedly the best banquet-style of any kind. Yummy yummy yummy. Also, BfD’s own JM Prince has put the bug in Nan and Pedro’s ears that the GADCC dinner should be named after Sam Nunn instead of Richard Russell.
6:52 P.M. Wooow, apparently I wasn’t the only one who failed to predict Rep. Sinkfield’s victory – the program tonight lists Gail Buckner as the nominee. Dewy beats Truman!!!
6:35 P.M. We are about ready to eat – apparently we have a special birthday tonight, Susan Berlon. Congrats! Just to be sufficiently meta, Nan Orrock and Pedro Marin are watching this iPad at work now – building a new America (them, not me).
6:19 P.M. We are underway here. I’m way cool with Jane being honored as opposed to chairing another meeting. Need notice before any more voting so I can pay a visit to my friendly beverage servers.
5:56 P.M. Pre-dinner schmoozing is winding down – what’s Yiddish for “glad I had a beer instead”? It should be illegal to politicking this much in 8 hours.
4:33 P.M. Oh-kay we are done until the dinner. Time for a drink.
4:20 P.M. Roy is focusing on jobs and education, seems like a standard platform for us this year. It’ll work better here than nationally for us. Of course we have to hear the George Wallace vs. Carl Sanders comparison again. Please let this be the last time.
4:04 P.M. Carol brings the crowd to its feet. Maybe SHE should have run for governor.
3:53 P.M. Huh, there are enough Martins that I thought Joe was one of the young guys. Carol Porter will be up here very shortly.
3:35 P.M. Yes, Darryl, we CAN see it. We really nominated the right guy in this race.
3:28 P.M. Rep. Sinkfield is accepting the nomination for secretary of state. Actually the first time I’ve seen her this season – presumably she ran a campaign I didn’t we or she wouldn’t have sailed through the runoff like she did.
3:20 P.M. John Barrow: “If you want to drive a car backward, put it in R for Republican.” True dat! Ken Hodges is up now – wonder how many people here voted for him. This is a race where we need to build some unity, forget the primary, and go after Sam Olens.
3:05 P.M. God bless these poor sacrificial lambs running for Congress. It’s sad to hear these guys talk about hearing constituents say how terrible John Linder is, without realizing that they will vote Republican anyway. Nice to hear some of Paul Broun’s greatest hits though.
2:47 P.M. Woohoo! We’re getting the Michael Thurmond version of the John Lewis chicken story, except possibly longer. Please, Mary Squires, don’t talk this long – Mike gives a better speech than you do.
2:33 P.M. Well Michael Thurmond is doing a pretty good job of accepting a nomination for a race he can’t win. It’s called “suspension of disbelief”. Too bad this isn’t “Mr. Holland’s Opus”.
2:23 P.M. Ah, yes, what would a DPG event be without some blather from Winifred Dukes. Look, spit it out – introduce the people who will introduce Michael Thurmond and be done with it.
2:14 P.M. Am I stupid or does the DPG banner not have a union bug? Check the photo and draw your own conclusion. Dubose is giving a post campaign speech. Apparently he met our friend Carol on the campaign.
2:06 P.M. We are back after some tasty beer for lunch, and are now in the Very Boring Speech portion of the event. At least Roy goes last.. although we are currently clapping revival style courtesy of Calvin.
11:17 A.M Yikes, these photos are blowing this page up to ginormous proportions. Sorry, Mel, I’ll have to try to fix this tonight when I get back to a real computer. We’re hearing the resolutions we’ve approved, and then I think we are off to lunch. I feel sorry for the people who will be eating a $50 sandwich.
11:09 A.M Just wanted to point out that the state party needs to remember that the more young Democrats they put on the podium, the cuter this convention gets. Not that Richard Ray and Mike Berlon aren’t cute, but we’re not rating cuteness based on one’s inner child.
11:00 A.M WTF moment survived. Subcommittee reports approved, Wyc Orr elected convention chair. Rousing speech from Wyc, but it’s hard to believe there’s been any “torch passed” when half the DPG exec has the title of “honorable”. We almost, ALMOST survived the platform vote without hearing from dear Carol.
10:32 A.M Oh. My. GOD. Some super genius decided every county party needed to physically caucus RIGHT NOW and elect a caucus chair. Because we really needed 100 separate groups of people to find each other in a large auditorium to demonstrate how organized we are!!!!! FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL
10:16 A.M We are under way and Athens mayor Heidi Davison is welcoming us. I will be amusing myself by trying to figure out how to get only one copy of the photos on this page.
9:54 A.M Hm, so far the not-workingness of the photo upload is quite spectacular. The Voice of the Party, aka Will Fowlkes, says we’ll be starting shortly.
9:33 A.M First live blog in a while, and first with iPhone/iPad combo. The scene here at the registration area in Athens is a little chaotic, but this many Democrats is really a good thing. We’ll see how the photo upload works for the Apple WordPress app.
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