Friday, August 5th, 2005...10:55 am
Speakers, and They Got Extra Quads
Three people spoke at the YDA convention yesterday. Well, more spoke, but they tended to be YDA officers, and why the heck would any of you care about that?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi spoke first. She’s good. The speech was just a run down of what the has been doing to younger folks. She also had good words for Paul Hackett, the man who barely lost a race for congress in Ohio last week.
Then came Gov. Richardson. This gave me a chance to hang out with Jennifer Kozlowski, my fellow Polish-Mexican who serves on Richardson’s staff. Richardson’s speech had a self mocking tone, feigning an “end” to the speech around four times. His best line:
People ask me if I took steroids when I played baseball. I say no, because I didn’t want to grow up to be governor of California.
The person that got the most rousing response was Mayor Gavin Newsom. His speech was ballsy. He talked about how his attempt to allow gay marriage was his way of taking fights directly to the conservatives and he is tired of us running the 90 yard dash. I think everyone in that room walked out wanting the guy to run for…something.
With his calls for a fearless liberalism, one wonders why he still maintains a membership in the DLC.
See you soon!
1 Comment
August 6th, 2005 at 2:27 am
I used Gavin Newsom to get the stupid lame ass Civil Unions striken from the YDA platform. We take a stand for something and stick to it.