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[disneydream06]

Last evening I convened Stewartville's Democrat caucus.
They caught me at a weak moment and I volunteered. lol...
I tried really hard to be prepared. Although I did skip the prep meeting they held.
So anyway, I got there and was setting up the room at 6 pm like they told me too. It was held at the high/middle school in one of the classrooms.
At previous caucuses that I have attended there were maybe 15 people that attended. I figured I could handle that.
So I am guessing you can imagine what happened.
People started to trickle in shortly after I arrived. Then suddenly the line started to grow, and the room was starting to look kind of small. One of the attendees was a teacher from the school and said she would see if maybe we could use the library or some place. She came back and said we could move to one of the back sections of the PAC, Performing Arts Center, aka the theater. So people started to head down there, and I was working like crazy trying to get people signed in. Some were staying for the caucus and some were just voting and taking off.
Needless to say when I finally got down to the PAC to convene the caucus I was feeling fairly frazzled. All my attempts to be organized went out the door. Thankfully I had made a copy of the program and highlighted the things that needed to be done. So I got things started.
Big surprise when we got to the point where we were suppose to elect a caucus chair, and nobody volunteered and 2-3 people said I should keep going. So I was elected caucus chair.
Things continued along by the seat of my pants some times. We reached the point where we were suppose to elect the precinct chair and 2 associate chairs. Right away people wanted me to be precinct chair, and I told them I really didn't want to be. Thankfully somebody volunteered and she was elected. Then we needed two associate chairs and needed one female and one male. One lady volunteered, but I couldn't get a guy to offer, so I volunteered to take an associate chair as well. :o
The balloting finally closed at 8 pm and we counted up how many people signed in to the caucus. We had 92 sign in. OMg.......
As for the votes, it broke down as follows...
Bernie Sanders: 60
Hillary Clinton: 30
Uncommitted: 1
And apparently one person didn't vote, that or I hate to say, one was lost. :o
Those number do match up pretty close to how the whole state of Minnesota went. Bernie was around 60% and Hillary was around 40%.

Afterwards I did have a couple of people come up to me and thank me for running things. That felt really good. And the lady that was there watching over all the DFL caucuses being held at the school said I did a great job and she was glad I ran things.

Now of course I am feeling awful thinking maybe I didn't get somebody a ballot and they didn't get to vote. :o CRAP.............

Comments

[seaivy.livejournal.com]

LOL
only one???
you did a splendid job!
Remember Idaho last time around? They couldn't even decide who won

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Politics!

did you do paper ballots or the old fashioned New England way - "all those for X stand over there and sound off - one, two, three etc."

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

We used paper ballots.

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Blimey. Good for you.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[owlstorm_9]

*APPLAUSE*

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Aww, Thank you. :)
Now if I didn't feel bad about the missing vote, and the fact that I forgot to give out information sheets for the county convention. :o

[owlstorm_9]

When one is overwhelmed by the unexpected crowd, such things happen. I'm sure they can get County info online if they're interested. Ya still done good!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

I emailed the lady that asked me to convene and she said they would have to spend the money to mail out the info sheets, but that I wasn't the only one that had forgotten.
Gee, I feel so much better now. :p

[chaquir.livejournal.com]

well done!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[bangdrum.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you did a great job to me!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. :)

[britalone.livejournal.com]

I've not heard of a caucus so I had to google it. It sounds very detailed and I'm impressed that you organised it all. Well done. I'm sure that if someone didn't get a ballot they would have spoken up.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. :)

I'm sure that if someone didn't get a ballot they would have spoken up.
I would sure hope so. :)

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you did a great job; you're a good guy. :-)

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. :)

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Wow wow wheee! Color me impressed! That sounds like hard work and you did a really great job :-)

I will attend my first caucus this month. I have never been to one before as in Calif. we always just voted in the Dem primary.
I didn't realize Bernie would be so much ahead in your state, wow!

You must be so proud to play such a part in local politics, I am proud to know you!!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much.
I think Bernie won because it is a caucus state. That lends itself to the more grassroots candidate.
Hugs, Jon

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Oh I see!
The GOP here is voting in Idaho and the Dems are caucus. I guess the Dems are grassroots here, :-/
It feels that way!
At least I live in an area of Boise with like minded souls. The people I meet around me are very cool, yippee.
But the state overall, especially outside of Boise, yikes :-o

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

You are so lucky because Idaho is so bloody Red. :o
I have that problem in my corner of Minnesota. It's very Red. :(

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Bloody Red, that is a good way to put it, lol.

We live in some tough states!

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Minnesota use to be fairly Blue, now it's gotten quite Purple. :(
Even my Democrat Congressman is not all that Blue. :(

[kaishin108.livejournal.com]

Idaho is very Red of course but Boise is quite Purple we think with a Dem Mayor.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

Wow, I wouldn't expect that. :o

[ellierachael.livejournal.com]

Only 92 votes cast doesn't seem a lot :/

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

But we usually have about 15 show up. Caucuses aren't like a regular voting cycle.