More Sunday Night Parties - At the Convention Center

After leaving the Phil Angelides party on Sunday night, I moved on to the Denver Convention Center which was hosted for all of the delegates at the convention.

(Reggie Jones Sawyer, Kellie Hawkins and me at the Convention Center)

The theme was "Salute to New Orleans" and I got there just in time to see the end of a speech by Governor Howard Dean. He is still a rock star to a lot of us - especially me.

I actually got involved in politics for the first time because of the 2004 Dean for President campaign. So it's always a pleasure to hear him speak.

The speech was good, but nothing new. Unity. Needing to get beyond the failed Bush policies. The 50-state strategy and taking it to the Republicans in every city and every state. And for mt superficial comment of the day -- boy has Gov. Dean lost weight! :)

After the speech I roamed around with a few friends and ran into a Facebook friend of mine that I actually met during the Dean campaign - Minneapolis City Councilmember Ralph Remington. And he introduced me to City Council Vice Chair Robert Lilligren and Andrew Falk, who is running for the Legislature in Minnesota. Here's picture:

(Minneapolis City Councilmember Robert Lilligreen, myeslf and Councilmember Ralph Remington)

This place was packed ... it was a wonderful start to the convention, with old friends, new friends and hundreds of delegates ready and excited about the coming week. Not to mention New Orleans themed food, include some kind of macaroni with crawfish and gumbo.