Citizen Journalism/Democracy from the Trenches
We just got home from a long evening after a long day, and I am tired right now, so here is a quick review of some the evening’s events:
I twittered my experience in my precinct’s caucus and at the same time, I was following reports from folks in precincts all around Texas, here is a selection of the most interesting tweets and twitterers as well as my tweets:
- Erica O’Grady (@ericaogrady) had a great “in the trenches” set of tweets from an unruly precinct in Houston that HPD was called into (here are a few tweets, but go to her twitter page for the whole story) - and as I am writing this, I just saw a tweet that she is still in the precinct convention, 5 hours since they were scheduled to have started:
Police are asking the caucus organizers to excite the building. Crazy
The police are here. Things are looking bad.
There’s about to be a riot here! Seriously
Still waiting to get in. Folks are getting ansy
- John Lebkowsky (@jonl) described media coverage of elections to a T:
The gist of it was that pundits don’t know anything, and they’re ignorant at length and in great detail.
- @KatherineD (of Houston), @kkoym (of Austin), @bobcarlton all twittered from their respective districts, talking about their feelings as well as what they were seeing and participating in.
- Omar (@omarg) astutely observed:
Apparently, a lot of people in Austin are caucusing tonight. And not even in the dirty way.
- Of course, you can see my tweets for my (relatively benign) caucusing experience
For some good coverage and commentary from on the ground go to the Burnt Orange Report, they’ve been liveblogging all evening and probably will continue for a few more hours.
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