But then Henry Cuellar & Richard "KKK" Raymond are stealing South Texas for her, so what did we expect? I think at this point that anyone who still supports Hillary has serious moral issues. I will not vote for her ever. I don't care what is at stake; I have seen the kind of behavior she condones & encourages & I morally cannot & will not support her.

I showed up early at my precinct with my agenda in hand (based on the TDP rules) & some other stuff. Folks were lining up for the caucus. It was way past 7:15, but folks were still voting & the election judge refused to let us in. I stood at the front of the caucus line & some folks started to squawk. I told them I was the precinct chair (have been since 2004, so it should be no surprise to anyone). They got quiet & went off to tell their Hillbot leader, who then accosted me. "Are you really the precinct chair?" "You know I am, & have been since 2004. If you have a question about it, call X (party chair)."

I showed her my agenda, telling her it was based on the TDP rules. She went off to make a phone call & came back unhappy. "Well, we'll start off this way & then we'll see what happens." uh-huh.

So then some lady comes up & announces to me that she is the permanent secretary. Uh, no you're not. I haven't called the convention to order because we're still standing outside & people are still voting. She walked away unhappy.

Then Hillbot leader comes up & asks if I will let some lady sign in for Hillary because she has to leave. Note: we're still fucking outside, I don't have the fucking packet, the convention hasn't been called to order. So, I say no. No packet, folks are still voting, no one can sign in until the convention has been opened & that ain't happening until the last voter votes. They skulk off. I did feel bad for this lady, but take it up with the TDP.

We're finally let in. There are over 100 people there. (Aside: where the fuck were these people in 2004 & 2006?) We separate into Obama & Hillary people. We (Obama) make threshold barely. I announce that I'm the temporary chair, but no one listens to me because I am not their appointed leader, so Hillbot does it. Everyone is ok with that (well tough shit if they weren't, it's in the DAMN RULES). I look around for Mrs. I'm the Permanent Secretary, but she's nowhere to be found, so I ask for someone to be Temporary Secretary. Eventually, we get started signing folks in. It is a complete clusterfuck. I make a motion that the temp chair & secretary be permanent chair & secretary & Hillbot & her little hillbots can't agree fast enough. Who wants to do that paperwork? The Obama folks get their stuff done pretty quickly & they're off. I'm still there as permanent chair (thank god). The Hillaries finally get their crap together & we're out of there. Someone brings me a broken ballot box seal. WHAT THE FUCK? So, I call the party chair, the TDP (which doesn't know what to do) & the Obama hotline. Who knows if anything will come of this. The permanent secretary offers to "finish off the paperwork & turn it in." At this point, I'm all "oh fuck no" on the inside & "no, that's okay, I have to meet (party chair) tonight & I'll give it to him."

I then get a call from the party chair. Could I please come to this other precinct because there is going to be a riot. Cops are there, the media is there, it's a madhouse. I get over there & things have calmed down a bit. I find another Hillary person from another precinct who is so pissed off at how the machine improperly ran her convention that she is calling the Obama hotline. Wonder who gave her that number? Turns out there are several fires that need to be put out: there are 2 precincts having a convention in the same place & the Hillbot leader here tries to steal the convention packet out of the hands of that precinct's chair. (there is only 1 delegate in this precinct for crap's sake). An Obama volunteer grabs it back & says "No, that is illegal" & Hillbot leader stalks off mad. I help the 2 folks who show up run their convention & we get a delegate & alternate for Obama (now do you see why they tried to steal that packet?) The other fire involved the refusal of the convention chair to sign in any Obama people. Eventually they get signed in & get 4 or 5 delegates. Unlike my convention, there was lots of shouting involved at even getting to that point, mostly because the Hillary people are pissed off that the mean Obama people are making them follow the rules.

I hear from others at HQ & at a local bar about the complete & total disaster that the countywide precinct conventions have been. Someone overheard a Hillary person say "The only reason I'm still here is because the boss is paying us $25." The machine did their best to bully & steal their way into getting the most delegates; the problem was that they only taught their folks how to steal the election & cheat at the conventions, not how to control the large crowds.



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