Road to Denver

Things are getting pretty exciting around here, as we prepare for the Texas Democratic convention. Lots of people are running for delegate, and many of them have compelling personal stories, and a lot of great experience working for the Obama campaign. It has been a lot of fun learning about my fellow candidates. The competition [...]

Tags: caucus, Clinton, convention, Democrat, Denver, election, Obama, primary, texas

It is all about accessibility after all. If you can’t, or don’t want to listen to the audio file I posted, asking for the support of SD14 Obama delegates, here is a transcript.
Hi, I’m Shelly Brisbin, and I want to be your delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Senator Obama’s campaign is about [...]

Tags: Austin, caucus, Clinton, convention, delegate, democratic, national delegate, Obama, SD14, state, texas

Greetings!
I realize I still owe you a podcast about the county convention, where I was honored to be chosen as a state delegate. I’m still working on that. But for now, I thought I’d show you the first draft of a page I built to promote my candidacy for national delegate.
Check it out.
In short, the [...]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I was chosen by members of my precinct delegation to be an Obama delegate to the state convention . Today was a really long day, and I’m much too tired to record a show.
Thanks to all my Twitter pals for their kind words today, and [...]

Presidential debates this season were weird. Most were more show business or sports than they were thoughtful occasions during which to narrow down your choice of presidential candidate. Candidates can take a helping of blame for offering sound bite answers, but mostly, I fault the questioners, who rarely asked what I wanted them to ask.
Throughout [...]

I am such a podcaster. I just got an invitation to a happy hour for Obama delegates and alternates from my precinct (145, represent!). I’ll go, of course. My first thought was how great an audio collection opportunity this will be.
It’s March 28. Wait for it!

I’ll be posting a podcast later today: I have lots of audio to edit. I just wanted to give a quick rundown of what happened last night at my precinct caucus.
We had 410 people in attendance. Obama won 74% of the votes to Clinton’s 26%. Two folks were initially undecided (you can declare yourself Undecided, [...]

As you can read over there on the right, this is my podcast about my attempt to go to the National democratic Conventin as a delegate. Though I have a perfectly good podcast, it has come to my atention that not everyone digs politics. So I’ve segregated it into this show, where I’ll feel free [...]

Tags: Clinton, convention, democratic, Obama, politics, texas