finally an update!!

Hello again friends! It's almost 4 AM and I finally have a moment to update y'all on what's happening. During the College Dems Convention I got the chance to really meet with other Dems from Texas and discuss how we can help each other out and outreach to more students. I'm really excited about our new membership chair for CDA, Heather Brown. She's from Nevada and has pretty good ideas on how we can help rural areas.

It's hard for me to write at the moment because I need to update on three days in one post!! I suppose what is most recently on my mind is the DNC. Evidently I was on CNN today with my fried Tory (president of Texas College Democrats and a law student at UT) dancing with placards or flags (I haven't seen the footage). I've met lots of people from Texas and outreached to them and as a result have received a lot of positive feedback and business cards, along with ideas on how to engage more young people. So many here are excited to see us young folk at the convention, regardless of who we're a delegate for.

Last night when I was waiting in line for a Young Democrats of America convention with other female delegates from Texas (mostly Hillary) we were interviewed by a political blog on our thoughts about Hillary (I will post the link once I get a chance to find it). Fortunately we're on board to support Obama in the presidential race and we discussed what we thought the role for Sen. Clinton should be. I think she should stay in the Senate. Why? Well frankly, we need strong Democrats to support a Democrat in the White house or we cannot achieve all the goals we so desperately need to attain. I honestly believe there is a unique energy that will transfer down-ballot. We may not go blue at home, but we will go purple.


People I spoke with:
Chet Edwards, Lloyd Dogett; Charlie Wilson, former Speaker Jim Wright

Pictures of: Caroline Kennedy, Patty Murry (D-WA), all the speakers on the Jumbo-tron

Saw: Jimmy Carter, Rep John Lewis

Despite the lack of sleep, the energy is amazing and I am so honored and excited to be here. I do apologize for the lack of substance with this particular post. I will try to keep updates as much as possible and am sorry for how scattered this is.

on a final note, here is a College newspaper I was included in http://www.studentmediacorp.com/dncblog/?p=45 and I was also interviewed by a gentleman that is a correspondent for German newspapers.

This is all very exciting and thank you everyone for your support! It's time to get a bit of sleep and gear up for tomorrow!!