This is sort of odd. We had electronic voting machines for the first time a few weeks ago. I handled it pretty well, but I got a tad confused and thought I had to put in someone for each of the offices. There was no one running for Democratic committeeperson in my neighborhood, and so I filled in my own name. It felt like a quiz -"Oh crap, just write something down and hope it's right."
When I went home for lunch today, I got a notice that I had won the election. I think this means that I was the only name written down. Committee positions are very infrequently filled, from what I understand. The notice also mentioned that they are electing party officers next Saturday at 10 AM. Of course, I will be preparing for the Pride Picnic, so there's no way I can go.
I must admit to feeling more than a little bit dubious about this. I feel overbooked already. I also was a Democratic committeeperson before we started the second run of the newsletter, largely on a whim. I hated it because it felt too vague and nebulous. That was one of the reasons I pushed for doing Erie Gay News again. I felt like there was an identifiable goal, and I knew what to do to get it to go. It also felt like I could see what was happening. Hmm.
The Erie PA Democratic Party does not even have a web site. Okay, I know technology does not equal effectiveness, but that seems pretty severe. I am toying with the idea of maybe setting them up with CivicSpace, like we are using for the Lake Erie Alliance for Democracy (LEAD), United NeoPagan Council of Lake Erie (UNCLE) and Drenched Fur.
But maybe this is overextending myself. I know that whenever I hear anything that sounds like bylaws or dry policy discussions or just aimless doofy meetings, I usually want to scream and throw stuff.
Oh well, we'll see where this goes, if anywhere at all.
So, *are* you amused? You said you would be! (See your May 16 post!)
I don't know what bothers me more - the fact that you were able to get elected by writing youself in (one vote!), or that there's a possibility someone else wrote you in as well!
Anyway, it appears that you have once again answered the gobbling call of the volunteer turkey: "I'll-do-it! I'll-do-it! I'll-do-it!"