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July 18, 2005

CDA Convention This Week

By Marcus Ceniceros

This Thursday, I will be in DC for the College Democrats of America Convention. I am really excited because this is my first CDA convention and I will get to hear people like Governor Dean, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe and many more.

To make it more interesting, I am going to be the Texas state delegation chair. I get to be chair because Alex Hunt, my successor as UDems president and the Texas College Chair will be in Maine and unable to attend.

Being my first time, I'm not completely sure what delegation chair entails, but it seems like it's an important job seeing as how I have received like 10 phone calls from kids all over the country running for national office. Talking with them I have learned a lot about CDA and have realized, that UDems hasn't been as involved as we could or should. But really, neither has the Texas Federation seeing as there are only four of us going and I don't even know all their names yet.

I know that TYD president Mike Apodaca has been trying to get things going for a while now, but seriously, if Texas College Dems want to get any love from CDA we have to start working for it. There are too many great achievements in Texas that are being overlooked, we continue to be left out of the loop, and we are missing out on some really great opportunities and support.

I hope to make some friends while I'm there and get Texas on the map.

CDA guidelines don't allow for us to bring anything to the meetings, so I probably won't have computer access, but I am going to try to give an update whenever I can. Check back for more news about CDA. In the mean time, I put a list of the national candidates in the extended entry.

President (re-election)/ Vice President
Grant Woodard: Grinnell College - Iowa / A'shanti-Fayshel Gholar: University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Communications Director:
Ed Diggs: Sierra College
Chad McVeigh: The Ohio State University
Wayne Ting: Colombia University

Development Director:
Alex Cornell du Houx: Bowdoin College (Maine)

Membership Director:
Elizabeth (Bess) Evans: DePauw University
Jill Stracko: St. Joseph's University

Political Affairs:
Javier Brown: Moorehouse College
Michael Davis: Stetson University (Florida)
Stephanie Hausner: Johns Hopkins University

Programs:
Emily Amick: Wellesley College (originally from Houston)
Anna Ruth Williams: University of Alabama

Posted by Marcus Ceniceros at July 18, 2005 12:33 AM | TrackBack

Comments

If Texas Campus Democrats are looking to affect acutal change, I would advise voting "no confidence" for Grant Woodard as President.

I worked with Grant as part of Grinnell Campus Democrats and while I find him fun to hang out with, his motives for becoming involved in College Democrats and politics in general are not-so-pure. He's a status-seeker and a name-dropper.

Just my two cents.

Posted by: Former Grinnell Student at July 18, 2005 04:35 PM
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