Interim report from Thurston County, WA caucus

My son just called from the Thurston County, Washington county-level convention. He was chosen at February's precinct-level caucus to attend as an Obama delegate. He didn't have a lot to report -- just needed to take a break -- but he passed along a few tidbits.

He said the snow in Olympia this morning didn't amount to much, but it was probably the largest snowfall they'd had this year -- and was the latest snow there ever. (Gotta love that global warming.)

He said things had gone very smoothly up until they started voting for delegates to the state convention, but now it's getting slower and more chaotic. He isn't running for the next level himself, since you have to pay your own way to go to Spokane, but some of the people he's car-pooling with are, so he has to wait for them.

And most interesting, he said that James Yee -- the Guantanamo chaplain who got into trouble for being too sympathetic to the prisoners (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Yee) -- was there and was running to be a state-level delegate. (I wonder if that means Yee might wind up in Washington's delegation at Denver. That could be really interesting.)

thanks

You must be proud of your son's interest and involvement. Thank him for all of us!

I wasn't familiar with Yee or the story, so thanks for the link!

My brother (in Seattle) said there were a couple of inches in the ground this morning (yard, shrubs, but not the roads), but a soft rain had melted it all by about 11:00. The sun was shining when he e-mailed me -- about 3pm.