The Revolution made great strides today. 

Earlier this week two meetings were held by some members of the Revolution. They came up with an agenda that was to be followed at the convention. We were going to try to put people in place so that we could send our delegates to the state convention. A chairman was selected that we would try to put in place of the current permanent chairman. I had never met the man since I was unable to attend the meetings, but I trusted my fellow members to make the correct choice.

The Revolution is so big here that it is hard to keep track of everyone. I am learning new names and seeing new faces all the time. I arrived at the convention about 45 minutes before the scheduled start. I immediately ran into a huge group of the Revolution. I was introduced to some members I had never met including the man who we were pushing for chairman.

I was handed a copy of the agenda and then we discussed what was going to take place. The most important business was to get our guy in place. If that failed then everything else was going to be pointless. I felt pretty good about our numbers. I was thinking that it was going to be about a 50/50 shot. I was wrong.

Once our guy was nominated, we voted to take a count by paper ballot. My precinct was allocated 8 votes. I was the only person to show up from my precinct so I got all of the votes. There were other people in the same situation. It was looking good so far.

A few minutes later all of the votes were counted. It turned out that our guy won by a landslide. The final count was about 170 to 80. Some of the establishment folks were visibly shaken and angry. 

We were then able to put our people on the Nominations Committee and the Resolutions Committee. I was put on the Resolutions Committee. Unfortunately, we were short on time so we had to vote on the resolutions as an entire package instead of taking them individually or by groups. I didn't agree with some of the resolutions, but we had no time for debate.  

There were some disagreements when it came to the list of state delegates and alternates. However, we able to get all of our delegates nominated either as actual delegates or alternates. I am an alternate. I really wanted to go the state convention, but since it starts on a Thursday it makes it a little difficult.

We pretty much accomplished everything that we wanted to do. The Revolution continues...