Some Busy Days
Okay, I’m sorry I haven’t posted in the last few days — it’s not because I haven’t been busy; quite the contrary is true.
We arrived back from Annapolis on Wednesday night. Wednesday morning was filled with a few more training sessions and seminars before Sherry, Pat, and I set off for a side trip to Baltimore on the way to our 5:30 pm flight. We enjoyed some wonderful seafood at one of Pat’s favorite restaurants, then took a nice stroll along the Inner Harbor of Baltimore. Before heading home to Canon Wednesday, I decided to take a detour downtown to attend a bit of Denver’s Drinking Liberally event. I’d always wanted to make it, but just never had been in Denver on any of the scheduled nights.
There was a good crowd still there when I arrived — easily 30-40 people, including freshman State Representative Joe Rice from Arapahoe County. Representative Rice is a fresh new face in the Legislature, but he’s already turning heads and impressing folks statewide for his intellect and abilities as a legislator. It was so great to see him at the DL event and see the great reception he received from the Metro-area activists.
Thursday, I should have been in Denver to help welcome Governor Dean. Alas, I had not seen my children in nearly a week, so I decided to stay home and rest and spend time with them (especially considering the schedule I had for the next few days — see below). I’ve heard from our Party Treasurer, Mark Ferrandino, that the Dean events on Thursday went very well, and the State Party raised a fair amount of money from those events.
Friday night, I attended the Colorado Young Democrats Celebrity Poker Night — the second year in a row that I had attended. This is easily one of the most fun events I get to attend each year — partially just because the view is stupendous. The event is held on the rooftop of a high-rise condo building just off the edge of Downtown Denver. The view of downtown and the mountains is breath-taking, and at night it gets even better. Watching the sunset there joined by a great group of like-minded young people is one of the best experience you can have.
I had meant to get to the poker tables — really, I did! But I got so caught up in conversations with old friends, and meeting new ones, that I just never made it over there. I did get to hear about all of the great plans that are being made to keep young people involved in the electoral process in 2008. Governor Dean has been discussing the importance of the youth vote more and more at DNC events — he made a point of encouraging state parties to do more to reach out to Young Dems and College Dems when we met with him in Annapolis.
Finally, on Saturday, the Site Selection Committee for the Colorado Democratic Convention and Assembly met in Denver, at Denver Dems Headquarters. We spent quite a while dissembling and comparing the bids from Broomfield and Colorado Springs to host the Convention next year. We’re working on setting site visits for early June and requesting more information on a variety of topics from both communities.
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I do have some photos up now from several of the above events, including some from the last day of the ASDC meeting in Annapolis. Feel free to check them out at:
http://www.DemNotes.com/photos