The State of Tennessee Democratic Party DNC delegates met for a breakfast meeting (sponsored by AT&T) this morning at their hotel. Gray Sasser opened the meeting and introduced the featured speaker, Fabian Bedne. Mr. Bedne is the President of the Middle TN Hispanic Democrats and an Obama Alternate Delegate for TN to the convention. He discussed the traditional Hispanic community's distrust of the media, the importance of word-of-mouth sharing of information, as well as too much government power disrespects the constitution. Video of excerpts of his speech are at the end of this post.

Members of the Tennessee Federation of College Democrats are attending the Democratic National Convention. The two young ladies drove straight through from Tennessee, no overnight stops. Such dedication! The group is very excited about the election and will do everything they can to get out the college student vote, including annoying students so much they'll vote just to get them to shut up.

Gray Sasser provides a warm start for the meeting.

Fabian Bedne is quite involved in Middle TN local politics. Check out the short bio at the bottom of this Tuke endorsement.

A full house at the breakfast meeting and everyone appeared quite chipper.

Excerpts of Fabian Bedne's comments during the TNDP Monday DNC breakfast.