The South Carolina Democratic Party Convention was held on May 18 in Columbia. The YCDP sent over 60 delegates. Our job was to approve rules and a platform, and elect some of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this summer. YCDP will send several delegates and alternates to that convention.

In this program, we talk to several of the delegates from York County and the rest of the state to get a feeling for what the convention means to those attending. Then we drop in on each stage of the convention itself… but we’re not trying to present the whole thing. That lasted over 4 hours, but was conducted pretty efficiently in that relatively short time. As far as we know, the complete convention was not recorded, so the minutes are the official record.

You're listening to the audio as lifted from the video presentation. We think you'll be able to follow along pretty well. Most of the speakers are identified verbally, a few are not. The event was held in a large gymnasium on the campus of Benedict College in Columbia. And frankly, you wil have a better acoustic experience than those in attendance – they had a kind of echoy, somewhat muffled experience... unless they were seated in the first few rows, in which case their hearing should be slowly recovering at this time 👂🏻.