313. LD Conventions tomorrow in Jefferson County and Fayette County - County Conventions elsewhere

I was in the Obama for America HQ in Louisville where I heard the lady at the desk giving directions to a caller about what to do at the County Conventions tomorrow. Her responses to the caller were frankly incorrect. She was telling them that tomorrow is a repeat of last week, only at the County level. It isn't. There will be no Committeeman, woman, and youth elected tomorrow. In Jefferson County especially, the makeup of the County Committee, with the exception of the 42nd and 48th LDs, is a done deal. The Obama campaign doesn't seem to understand the process, which makes them like a lot of people. The State Party went to great efforts to get people involved this year, sending out postcards and pamphlets, and hosting a number of educational sessions across the state, including two in Louisville. Unfortunately, very few people attended and the Obama campaign folks didn't arrive on the scene until well into the process. Nonetheless, expect Obama folks at the conventions tomorrow in some degree of numbers. Few if any will know what they are doing, but there is strength in numbers and they will have the numbers.

The one thing that will happen tomorrow that the Obama campaign can and certainly will have an effect on will be the election of delegates to the State Convention. Each LD (and County) are allotted a number of delegates to the State Convention to be held in Lexington in June. If the Obama folks turn out in the numbers they did last weekend, they can effect a change in the makeup of the State Convention and the State Central Executive Committee.

All of this should make for an interesting morning. My district meeting is to be held at the Dosker Manor Senior Citizen High Rise on Muhammad Ali Boulevard. There is no parking for non-residents in the complex and people typically park on the four city streets which surround the complex - Muhammad Ali, Preston, Liberty, or Jackson. However, because Thunder over Louisville is early this year to avoid a conflict with Passover, all of those streets will have "No Parking Anytime" tomorrow - the signs have already been erected. I have no idea where the three people from each of the 41st's precincts are supposed to park - that should be interesting as well.

Hold on - the process is getting interestinger and interestinger.