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What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas… Except This
America Votes intern extraordinare, Alicia spent time last week at the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas. Alicia was kind enough to share some of the experience with us on the blog.
I have just returned from an epic trip to Las Vegas, NV! Usually when talking about a Vegas trip, I would stop here. But, while in Vegas this time, I attended Netroots Nation 2010. The conference, which lasted from July 22 to July 25, was the perfect forum for progressives to learn, discuss, experience, debate, and prepare for the upcoming elections this November.
Since redistricting is one of our main focuses here at America Votes, I want to share with you some relevant things I learned at Netroots. Specifically, I took in the Redistricting Panel, which featured State Senator Steven Horsford, a DLCC Board Member and the Majority Leader of the Nevada Senate, Executive Director Bill Burke of the Foundation for the Future, and Michael Sargeant, Executive Director of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. The panel provided important information about redistricting and went into depth about the importance of investing resources into this process. The full panel can be viewed here.
This panel has led to more discussion about redistricting. Paul Rosenberg at Open Left discussed his thoughts on the panel and what he thinks are the most important points on the redistricting subject for Democrats in the 2010 election.
I am very glad this successful panel was held at Netroots. Redistricting is an extremely important issue that absolutely needs to be picked up by the blogger community. Netroots was the perfect catalyst.
In addition to the redistricting, there were of course fantastic keynote speakers, fun social events, and a lot of excitement. The rest of what happened in Vegas, though, stays in Vegas.
