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We’ve started with @RepGregoryMeeks reading the convention call and now calling the roll of all 176 delegates. https://twitter.com/emiliadecaudin/status/1291498468268285952
Roll call is finished. We now move on to the election of a temporary chairman. Valerie West nominates Randall Ing. Steven Forte seconds. Ing wins by default.
Ing speaks about how he was nominated in 1990 as one of the first Asian-American justices of the Supreme Court of New York. He designates Frank Bolz as parliamentarian and Michael Reich as temporary Secretary.
Barbara Jackson moves that the temporary officers be made permanent. Diane Ballek seconds the motion. It passes unanimously. Suprisingly, those on the dais course correct on their own to ask for additional nominations.
Ing moves to the main business. @Stacey23AD nominates Tracy Catapano-Fox for the 1st vacancy. Lew Simon seconds. Ing asks for further nominations. Catapano-Fox is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
. @RoryLancman nominates his wife Mojgan Cohanim Lancman for the 2nd vacancy. Tamara Osherov seconds. Ing asks for further nominations; there are none. Lancman is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
.Assembly Member Vivian Cook nominates Lance Evans for the 3rd vacancy. @NYStrategist seconds. Ing asks for further nominations; there are non. Evans is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
. @mgdendekker nominates Karina Alomar for the 4th vacancy. @aridia_espinal seconds. Ing asks for further nominations; there are non. Alomar is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
Roslyn Spigner nominates Michelle Johnson for the 5th vacancy. @RepGregoryMeeks seconds. Ing asks for additional nominations; there are none. Johnson is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
. @RepGregoryMeeks nominates Darrell Gavrin for the 6th vacancy, for reëlection to a second term. @edbraunstein seconds. Ing asks for further nominations; there are none. Gavrin is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
. @RepGregoryMeeks nominates Evelyn Braun for the 7th vacancy, for reëlection to a third term. Ann-Marie A. (AD 36) seconds. Ing asks for further nominations; there are non. Braun is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
. @RepGregoryMeeks nominates Kevin Kerrigan for the 8th vacancy, for reëlection to a second term. @MikeMcGuire79 seconds. Ing asks for further nominations; there are none. Kerrigan is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
.DL Martha Taylor nominates Leonard Livote for the 9th vacancy. John Albert(?) seconds. Ing asks for additional nominations; there are none. Livote is nominated unanimously. I abstain.
. @RichDavidNYC moves that @RepGregoryMeeks, Vivian Cook, @FranciscoMoyaNY, @CMKoslowitz, and @LiuNewYork as a committee to fill vacancies if any of the nominees die. Someone seconds. The motion passes unanimously.
Ing turns to the gavel over to @RepGregoryMeeks, who calls the 9 nominees up from the overflow room to the dais in the main room.
Here there are: – bei Antun's
Lance Evans speaks about a “humbling vetting process.” I certainly didn’t hear about any vetting process.
One of the nominees thanks Gerard Sweeney, who does have an important role in the party, but had none (formally) at the convention and was not even here.
. @RepGregoryMeeks talks about the importance of our current moment, and the parallels of the Black Lives Matter movement and the Civil Rights movement.
Ing recognizes Ilene Bowen(?), who moves to adjourn. Amanda (?) seconds. The motion passes unanimously.
