National Platform Committee

We had the first meeting of the national platform committee yesterday in preparation for next week's convention.  I have been impressed with our chairman Congressman Kevin McCarthy of California and our co-chairman Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina.

I have had a chance to talk to delegates from all over the US and among the highlights are the two sitting right next to me. One is a law professor who in his spare time defends cities and states who are trying to enforce immigration policies. The other is another lawyer who works with a variety of well-known Christian organizations. Yesterday was only the preliminary meetings but we have already started up some good discussions. It will be interesting because we only have two working days to complete the platform. Previous conventions have taken as many as five.

Overall the draft platform looks pretty good, but as they say, "the devil is in the details." One thing is certain, this years platform will be significantly shorter than 2004. The 2004 platform was 92 pages.

The Platform Committee is meeting in Minneapolis not in St Paul where the convention will be next week. So even though I didn't get to sleep until 2am I got up to ride my fixed gear bicycle at 5am. It felt good to race around the deserted downtown. I needed the exercise because today is going to be a long day.

Comments

[Nicky Baker]

I thought about bringing my bike up with me, but we don't have a rack to fit my recumbent on. So, you're riding a fixed gear? Wow, not sure I could do that these days... and they don't' make recumbent's in a fixed gear... I think.