What a week! x.x
Mar. 7th, 2008 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nova_myth What a week indeed! Monday was mostly okay, until I learn I had a Japanese vocab quiz on Friday (which I bombed-.-). Tuesday was the Texas primary and caucus. I had voted early so I didn't have to attend the main run to vote and went to the cacaus. The cacaus was a mess!
This is how it went down. I arrived at my precint about 6:45 in the evening, its suppose to start at 7pm. However the cut of time for regular voting is also at 7pm. There were over 100 people in line at the cut off time and we couldn't start until they had voted. So we didn't start till near 8pm. That made people grumpy but it wasn't really so bad. There were three precints at my caucus location, mine would be the largest >.<. The smallest was only 4 people! So that one and another one with maybe 20-30 people went first. Mine had over 100 people. Now this is what is suppose to happen, from what I read up on before going. We come in, nominate and then vote on a permanent chairman and secretary. At this point we then go sign in on the sheets and prove we have voted already, either by early voting or by regular. Then we sit down and go about voting on any resolutions and selecting delegates and alternates for the convention (regional and state, national selection in later, and I don't know how that goes about [yet]). Then we go home.
This is what happened. A lady who was temporary chairman nominated a dude from the Obama side. So where like okay, whatever and he took it. Then a woman from the Hillary side took the Secretary. I'm sitting up front with a group of seniors who kept asking me if I'd be a delegate since I had arrived and I said sure. Note though whatI find funny is while I had a Hillary sticker on my shirt my shirt said "Optimus Prime for President" XD. Did anyone notice? NOPE. So the dude had been talking to the temporary chairman for a few minutes before hashing out a plan of action, the guy was literally lost. He gets on the speakers and directs everyone to the sheets and instructions them on filling out the info yada yada, need your id, yada, you can come home, yada yaday- WHAT? Not one word is spoken about delegates, which is why we are there. The seniors around me are upset, some of them were from around when the last Texas cacuas was held in 1968 and one had infact been a delegate. I get up go to them a few yards away and say, "Wait, what about delegates." The temporary interupts me as say, oh no we don't choose them. I didn't believe that for a minute and while pretty much everyone else in my precint was going to the sheets I went over to a Hillary lady (I assume captain) and questioned her. Then I went to the Chairman dude and pressed him to make an announce about delegates because that was infact what we were there for. He throws a fuss, well I've never done this before, yada yada. I get at him saying too bad you need to do this, people are starting to leave. I go over to the Hillary lady to say thank you, only to turn around and see him talking to the temporary lady, no where near the mic. Ugh. I go over there and tell her that is what I was asking her when I came to her. She like, oh well I thought you meant something else. Bullshit. There is not variation to the word delegate in a caucus. I didn't say that out aloud but again pressed that the Chairman needs to make an announcement and do it now, people are leaving. What does she do, she puts her hand up in my face and say, enough, I don't need to hear that from you. I pretty much want to hit her right and very very hard. It takes me bugging the Chairman more and also some bugging from the Obama captain as well before he makes the announcement, in which 10 more minutes have passed. >.< I am so fit to be tied I signed up to be a delegate before getting in line to cast my vote. But by the end of the night when I get through only a few people are still in the room and only 14 people signed up to be a delegate before I left, with no alternates. We were suppose to get 17 each.
Wensday was pretty much exhaustion, I didn't get home till late because of the caucus. Thursday I didn't get home till late yet again because I had mandatory training at work for 2 1/3 hours after I usually get out. That wasn't too bad other than I didn't get to study at all that night for my quiz in Japanese the following morning. That is what my week was like in a nut shell. Of course a lot more happened but that was the major even of the week.
This is how it went down. I arrived at my precint about 6:45 in the evening, its suppose to start at 7pm. However the cut of time for regular voting is also at 7pm. There were over 100 people in line at the cut off time and we couldn't start until they had voted. So we didn't start till near 8pm. That made people grumpy but it wasn't really so bad. There were three precints at my caucus location, mine would be the largest >.<. The smallest was only 4 people! So that one and another one with maybe 20-30 people went first. Mine had over 100 people. Now this is what is suppose to happen, from what I read up on before going. We come in, nominate and then vote on a permanent chairman and secretary. At this point we then go sign in on the sheets and prove we have voted already, either by early voting or by regular. Then we sit down and go about voting on any resolutions and selecting delegates and alternates for the convention (regional and state, national selection in later, and I don't know how that goes about [yet]). Then we go home.
This is what happened. A lady who was temporary chairman nominated a dude from the Obama side. So where like okay, whatever and he took it. Then a woman from the Hillary side took the Secretary. I'm sitting up front with a group of seniors who kept asking me if I'd be a delegate since I had arrived and I said sure. Note though whatI find funny is while I had a Hillary sticker on my shirt my shirt said "Optimus Prime for President" XD. Did anyone notice? NOPE. So the dude had been talking to the temporary chairman for a few minutes before hashing out a plan of action, the guy was literally lost. He gets on the speakers and directs everyone to the sheets and instructions them on filling out the info yada yada, need your id, yada, you can come home, yada yaday- WHAT? Not one word is spoken about delegates, which is why we are there. The seniors around me are upset, some of them were from around when the last Texas cacuas was held in 1968 and one had infact been a delegate. I get up go to them a few yards away and say, "Wait, what about delegates." The temporary interupts me as say, oh no we don't choose them. I didn't believe that for a minute and while pretty much everyone else in my precint was going to the sheets I went over to a Hillary lady (I assume captain) and questioned her. Then I went to the Chairman dude and pressed him to make an announce about delegates because that was infact what we were there for. He throws a fuss, well I've never done this before, yada yada. I get at him saying too bad you need to do this, people are starting to leave. I go over to the Hillary lady to say thank you, only to turn around and see him talking to the temporary lady, no where near the mic. Ugh. I go over there and tell her that is what I was asking her when I came to her. She like, oh well I thought you meant something else. Bullshit. There is not variation to the word delegate in a caucus. I didn't say that out aloud but again pressed that the Chairman needs to make an announcement and do it now, people are leaving. What does she do, she puts her hand up in my face and say, enough, I don't need to hear that from you. I pretty much want to hit her right and very very hard. It takes me bugging the Chairman more and also some bugging from the Obama captain as well before he makes the announcement, in which 10 more minutes have passed. >.< I am so fit to be tied I signed up to be a delegate before getting in line to cast my vote. But by the end of the night when I get through only a few people are still in the room and only 14 people signed up to be a delegate before I left, with no alternates. We were suppose to get 17 each.
Wensday was pretty much exhaustion, I didn't get home till late because of the caucus. Thursday I didn't get home till late yet again because I had mandatory training at work for 2 1/3 hours after I usually get out. That wasn't too bad other than I didn't get to study at all that night for my quiz in Japanese the following morning. That is what my week was like in a nut shell. Of course a lot more happened but that was the major even of the week.
