Conventions are not a new thing in my life but this was my first Netroots Nation. I missed Yearly Kos in Las Vegas and in Chicago but after the fabulous time I had this past week, I will try never to miss another one. Thursday after registering I immediately started running into local activists from Austin.
Matt Glazer from Burnt Orange Report & Fran Vincent from Democracy for Texas.
Glen Maxey, Laura Kolstad, and Matt Glazer
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Then I started meeting all the great bloggers from around the nation. Many I have known on line for years and many were new to me but all made the experience even better.
CabinGirl, Booman, me, & Man Eegee
Kath25 & I
Brandon
This was taken after I donated a dollar to Ben’s campaign
I just love the Bikes Not Bombs hat
The gang who worked so hard on the Netroots for the Troops I was happy to meet the people I had entertained in the dairies with Happy Dances.
People would never guess how much I hate having my picture taken as I ran around the convention center and the Hilton having my picture taken with every candidate and elected official I could find. LOL
Glenn Nye US Congress Virginia District 2 Candidate
Congresswoman Donna Edwards Maryland
Andy Brown Travis County Democratic Chairperson
The Gang promoting Crawford the movie. A must see in my opinion.
There are many more pictures I will be posting later. I will close with 3 that had me walking on cloud 9!!!
Gavin Newsom Mayor of San Francisco
Speaker Nancy Pelosi
I regret I did not take more pictures of bloggers or of the parties but look for more pictures soon from this exciting event!!!
You looked stunned in that picture with Gavin Newsom! 🙂
Great pics, RF!
I was stunned. LOL
What a score. I didn’t even know you were doing photos with candidates and politicians.
I had a blast asking everyone to pose with me. I will be doing another diary soon with even more.
Well, after all, he is a pretty hunky looking guy;-)
Great pix, refinish69! Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure
I’m amazed at your access, RF.
I guess being so shy and demure helped me get all the pictures. LOL I have wquite a few more coming up.
Gee it doesn’t look like a Klan gathering to me…which according good old Billy O’Reilly that is what it amounted too.
Thanks for the pictures refinish69-always appreciated for all of us who can’t get to gatherings like this. Everyone looks happy and glad to be there.
I wish you could have been there. It;s my pleasure to share with my fellow froggies.
O’Reilly should be worrying about the group that will be coming for him……soon ; ) LMAO
peace….well maybe not in his case….
Maybe we should go visit him. LOL
great roundup of pix, refi. i only met a fraction of the candidates that you did, excellent work.
Thanks!!! I do regret that I did not get more pictures of bloggers though. LOL
Kudos RF….and thanks for taking the time to represent the True America ; )
peace
My pleasure. I had such a blast and will be posting more pictures soon and look for a write up about a candidate who really excites me for the 208 election cycle.
Thanks rf – that was great fun. I’m looking forward to everything now.
No way can I think of you as a neophyte after all you’ve done and shared with us all.
Thank you. I guess the experience of Netroots was so new I felt like a neophyte. There is a totally different feeling when it is all bloggers together under one roof.