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Support resolutions at precinct conventions to reform adult and youth corrections: A Grits mini-campaign

By Gritsforbreakfast

In Texas' Democratic primary this year, voters get to "vote twice," meaning they can vote once at the ballot box and, for the very committed, they can go to local precinct conventions on election night and vote again in party caucuses.For many people, these caucuses will be their first experience with their political party's internal machinery (on the GOP side, precinct-level battles have been more common over the last two decades). Burnt Orange Report recently had an excellent two-part series describing the delegate selection process on the D-side, and Mark Camann over at BOR had a nice post describing the resolutions process that inspired this campaign.With so many folks attending their precinct conventions for the first time, I decided to craft two criminal justice related resolutions for readers to propose when they go, and we're going to run a little mini-campaign here on Grits to see in how many different places around the state we can get them passed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).