It is 11:15 and I just got home from Texas Caucus

We did it by the book.  We started about 7:20.  We finished signing in at 9:30.  No one was turned away.  The doors remained open.  They broached the subject once, I quoted rules.  The doors remained open.

We had to create more lines for Obama.  Of 342 people, 216 were for Obama so we got 31 of 45 delegates.  I am a delegate to the county on March 29th.  The defused Clinton camp made a stab for the Delegate Chairperson roll, but we beat them back.  They pretty much all walked at that point.  The Obama people stayed and stayed.  We read every danged resolution.  We faltered at one point and then I picked up the stack and leafed through.  We still had things like abstinence based education to vote on.  Nuff said.  We kept at it.

We voted against coal.  Against any kind of women's right to her body bs (sorry...against anyone telling a woman what to do with her body.  There were many resolutions that spoke to this).  We voted for all alternative energy.  We almost broke into one fight over a mandate to drive 55 of all things.  Yeah, we were tired and touchy.  My husband, who did not caucus told me police were called to one Austin caucus, but no one was arrested.  lol.  Don't mess with us here in Austin.  We will go down to the mat.  I love living here.  Ya'll are gona love it here when you come down.  There is nothing like Austin.  

We were getting good numbers from what we could find out and then I came home and found Obama 2% behind.  Sigh.  Sadness.

But I am telling you, we had a great time.  No one tried to stop anyone from voting in anything. All caucus votes were verified.  Each table sign up sheet had one Obama and one Clinton who looked at every card, etc. before we got to sign in.  

The Clinton folks really tried to get us to just take the party recommendations on all the resolutions, but we were having none of it.  We were feisty and, like I said, they pretty much wandered off as we continued the business of the Democratic Party.

I am too tired to even try to think of what the returns mean.  I will try to make sense of that as I gobble some soup.  My teeth are so sore.  I am not supposed to were the fake ones this long, yet.  Gona sleep like a Limbaugh tonight.

It was tiring but great fun.  And I am proud of precinct 460.  We did not bend a rule.  When questions came up, those of us who had caucused before stepped up and made sure the answers were correct.  It was herding cats.  Woohoo.