Tuesday Morning and Afternoon

Started the morning going to the California Delegation Breakfast and Gloria Allred had attempted to get on the morning program to celebrate the 88th year since the passing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving women the right to vote, and also announce that the CA Hillary delegates were going to meet after the breakfast. Her request was denied. After the breakfast, Gloria and the “300” Hillary Nomination Petition group held an impromptu press conference to say what would have been said at the podium and a small number of Hillary delegates did meet.

From there, we went to a march to celebrate Hillary’s campaign. It began at the Central Park and ended a mile down the road at the convention center. Over 500 people marched, shouted slogans, and it was good to be all together celebrating Hillary’s ground breaking campaign. Besides winning all the major states except Illinois, when Hillary won New Hampshire, she became the first woman to win a primary while running for President of the United States. We celebrated for all the 18 million voters that chose her in this historic primary.

After the march, we went to the WomenCount.org meeting. I met with some old friends from our campaign trails. Alice Palmer who I met Houston, TX, was the former State Senator of Illinois that Obama replaced under some controversy, and Rosemary Straley who I worked with in Iowa and is a leader of the Hillary Support Network. I also had a very good conversation with Ellie Smeal, Feminist leader and founder of the Feminist Majority, and talked with Kim Gandy, the President of NOW who I first met when I went on the Ms. Cruise in 2004.

From here, we went to the Emily’s List gala meeting. Over 2,000 women and men were in attendance. Ellen Malcolm introduced Senator Barbara Mikolski who after her speech introduced Hillary Clinton. The room went wild with applause and loud cheers for our leader. Hillary told us about how important it is to work to elect Democrats, women and men into all levels of government. She said we need someone in the White House we can work with, and she asked all of us to join her in working as hard as we worked for her to make sure Barack Obama and Joe Biden win in November. Hillary said that she knew a little about how the White House works, and if President Obama was not on our side, she could call Michelle and that would get the job done. Hillary is all for us helping get Barack Obama our next President of the United States.

We couldn’t stay to hear Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Michelle Obama or the others that followed. Now I’m off to the convention floor to watch Hillary Clinton give her speech.