Question regarding TX Senate Convention (re: at large candidate)

[Yemp4734]

Hi all,

I was elected to be a delegate at my precint convention.

I was reading about the Texas senate convention, and apparently you can go to something called the "nominations comittee" if you belong to a certain group. Apparently you can be an at large delegate. The idea being a diverse delegation is desired, and the nominations people try to provide that.

One of them was said to be age. I'm 19, and from what I can gather people my age (or close to my age) will be an extreme minority.

I am wondering if I should go to the nominations comittee for that reason. I don't know, however, if it would be useful in my consideration as delegate to the state convention or not? Would it be helpful at all to do that, or not really?

Thanks for any advice!

[corporatewhore]

1. 18 and am a delegate too! which county i am in travis

[Yemp4734]

3. Hey

I'm in Harris. I went to a meeting yesterday where I tried to ask this question, and a 50-60 year old person "answered" for around a minute by telling me I essentially would be discriminating against her. After that it was kind of dropped and they moved on. I was the ONLY person in the room of 30+ people to be under 30. I don't think I would be. If anything we are the ones not getting representation. But anyway, I didn't get an answer so I thought I would ask here.

I was debating rather or not to bring up my sexuality too, but I decided I didn't want to announce it to a bunch of people I don't know. I can barely bring my self to speak in front of people about anything as it is.

[Gman]

2. Read this! Your senatorial convention will be conducted in accordance

with these rules:

http://www.txdemocrats.org/IssuesPlatforms/rules04.pdf

If you have any questions, contact your SDEC person for your senatorial district.

In a nutshell... here's what happens:

You sign in your presidential preference just as you did at your precinct convention. The preferences are then broken out by percentages. The preference percentages are applied to the total delegates your SD gets to the state convention. Each preference caucuses and nominates its delegates it wants to go to the state convention and reports these to the nominating committee. If once the percentages are applied and there are and there are any "remainder" as a result of rounding, those delegate spots become "at large" and the nominating committee recommends names as part of its report.

Keep in mind the nominations committee only recommends but the convention must accept as written, or amend, or throw out completely but then vote on the final slate of delegates to the state convention. Generally, the convention routinely ratifies the nomination committee's report.

In many senatorial conventions, the way things have been in recent years, just about anybody that wants to be a delegate becomes a delegate because there often are not as many people at the senate convention as the senate district gets delegates to the state convention.