Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005...6:20 am
Johnny’s Last Chistmas
Being that I am an old man, I am “aging out” of the Young Democrats of America. This week’s convention in San Francisco will be my last.
My first convention was in Merrillville, Indiana in 1993. I have not attended all the meetings since, but I have only missed one convention in that time.
Here is a summary of those conventions:
- “Get some balls, Dennis!”
- “Mr. Chairman, this is bulls***, I’m a diabetic and…hey…”
- “Would everyone please….shut…the…hell…up….”
- “Sit down, a**hole!”
- “We would like to point out that William O. Douglas was actually from Washington.”
- “You know, Alice Cooper was actually from Detroit.”
- “Isn’t one of your senators that Dennis D’Amato guy?”
- “Is that Evan Mecham still governor there?”
- “We are cutting off our hands to spite our face.”
- “There is only one language at this convention, we only speak English here.”
- “La Partida Democrata en Tejas respetan diversidad.”
- “Gracias a todos mis amigos.”
- “The Young Democrats of Arkansas change their votes to Scott Hutchings because we found out his opponent cut a deal with Mike Sexton.”
- “That’s okay, none of us are involved in our state organizations.”
- “Do they have a hotel in Little Rock? I mean, we have hotels in DC.”
- “We’ve got diversity; he’s from Chicago, I’m from Washington, and Victor is from Queens.”
- “I’m glad you told that story, otherwise I wouldn’t have known you were Hispanic.”
- “You know, I control four votes on that committee.”
- “Presidential agent, does that mean he gets a cut of the President’s ‘action’?”
- “Mr. Chairman, my delegation will not be forced to stand.”
- “This all started as a joke, a rebellion.”
- “One man has represented the spirit of rebellion in this organization, and that is Ted Prezelski.”
I would write long explanations for these, but there isn’t much point, eh?
If possible, I’ll try to write updates from out there. I’m an old man not campaigning for anything or anyone, so I’ll have time.
PS - I added a link to a blog called ZelphBlog. It hasn’t been updated in a while, but a couple of the posts are interesting, such as this one about Rep. Krysten Sinema. Or, the link to the interview where Sen. Karen Johnson calls Pres. Bush a Trotskyite. Mr. Zelph (I think it’s a guy…) will start posting on Desert Rat Democrat.
2 Comments
August 3rd, 2005 at 11:06 am
I think I’m responsible for one of those quotes, and was a witness to many others.
I went to the YDAz convention trip kickoff last night, and someone gave me a nametag and called me a “dignitary”. I believe that means just inherited the mantle of “oldest YD”.
August 4th, 2005 at 12:53 pm
Well Ted…this is also the last chance you have to get a, what is the phrase? Oh yeah A Nice Piece of Blank.
And life with FUFU BERRY! is good.
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