Linn County Convention - Democrats

The Linn County Democrats held their convention today. At the Iowa caucuses this past January, I was elected as one of the two pledged delegates to John Edwards, from Cedar Rapids Precinct 30 (Bowman Woods School - yea Lions!!!). Here I am with my neighbor Carolyn Sternowski, who has just given me the directive "hang tough for Edwards". We did hang tough and kept our block together at 18%, making us eligible to send 35 committed Edwards delegates on to the state convention.

Among the fun interactions which I fondly remember from today's session were entertaining debates over 3 platform planks:
1) favoring the rights of Iowa farmers to grow marijuana and hemp,
2) opposing use of gas tax money to fund ethanol (sort of a sacred cow in Iowa), and
3) requiring beer and wine to pass through state-controlled warehouses before we can drink it....
...oh yes, the Hilary Clinton people tried hard to get me to switch over....however, the Barack Obama supporters didn't even try to entice me. I guess the fact that they had already corralled 53% of the county delegates, made our little 18% John Edwards block just an afterthought!