Reply #39: Of course!

[Jane Austin]

Last time there were so few of us that I was elected convention chairman!

I've heard people calling the talk shows demanding to know when they started doing caucuses. They sound like it's a plot of some kind.

If it's a plot, it's a plot to keep the powers that be in power.

I remember during the Vietnam war, the chairman of my west Austin precinct locked the doors before 7:00 pm to keep the rabble (us war opponents) out.

He was a prominent lawyer/lobbyist who I disliked since that night .

When he died, he was lionized as a great man of Texas. Ugh.

To me, he was a great symbol of the bad old days of the Texas Democratic Party. It was an old boys club then.

Now most of that type are Republicans, and people like me get elected convention chair!