Our first official delegate day was awesome. We started off yesterday morning with our delegation breakfast. This is the one event delegates are required to attend everyday. They enforce this rule by providing credentials to all events during the breakfast. Yesterday’s breakfast featured Sen. Sherrod Brown, Treasurer Rich Cordray and several national labor leaders. There really isn’t a lot of action during the breakfast, but it is a good opportunity to meet other members of our delegation. 

After breakfast, Dominique and I went to the Black Caucus meeting. This was just a time for Black delegates to hear from different leaders and discuss topics relevant to our community. On our way out, Dominique and I ran into Michael Eric Dyson and Susan Taylor.

 

Who these other people are in the picture, I have no clue. They just kinda inserted themselves in there, and who am I to tell someone they can’t be in my picture??? Another thing to note, Susan Taylor’s forehead in person, is no where near as big as it seems in pictures.

After the Black Caucus we picked up David and went to a reception hosted by House Minority Leader (and my Soror) Joyce Beatty. We made it there late, and missed the food. We soon realized it was just an event to raise money and seeing that we have very little, we left. 

One of the advantages of being a delegate is that people like to give you free things from time to time. For instance, Google is offering free massages and smoothies to all delegates. I didn’t want Google to waste their money, so I had to participate. 

 

The life of a delegate is so hard!