Our first general session ended just minutes ago. Delegates are off for our Night Out in Dallas, enjoying local restaurants and soaking up some local flava.
Trainings, internal meetings, and caucuses continued. In our trainings, we organized delegates for live action to call their Senators to help defeat a bad amendment to the College Cost Reducation Act (we won!).
At general session, we heard from Jim Hightower, former Texas Agricultural Commissioner, who kicked off the night with a kick-ass and take names speech filled with Texas humor. State Representative Garnet Coleman, Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and James Bernard, Campaign Coordinator for SEIU, also spoke to delegates about the young voter revolution!
And Allison Gallaway, wife of outgoing President Chris Gallaway, gave a touching speech about Chris' leadership of YDA.
Schedule note for tomorrrow: Senator John Edwards is now speaking at the 7:00pm general session tomorrow night. And General Clark will be speaking at the 12:00pm community service project.
I just want to commend YDA secretariat for an encouraging and lively opening of GA.. herye! You did great…
Hello to everybody of IFLRY and YDA.
God Bless all of you.
Don’t forget youth people of Kosova and Western Balkans. We like to live in freedom,peace and democracy. USA and UE are our hopes. Greetings from Prishtina/Kosova
Allison Gallaway’s speech was really great and Chris’s report on the state of YDA was very good too. I hope the text is posted on YDA.org. Cheers—
—Rob
P.S. Kudos to Abby, Craig, and the production team.