My name is Adrianne George and I'm asking for your support to join the 2024 Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee. I am in my final 2nd consecutive term as a Democratic National Committee (DNC) Member for Democrats Abroad. Since 2016, I have been part of our team that evangelized Democrats Abroad at DNC Meetings, lobbying for funding, obtaining surrogate speakers for our online and in-person events, and helping lead our efforts to pass a Reparations Resolution.
I was selected to be on the DNC Credentials Committee and elected Secretary of the DNC Midwestern Region Caucus. It has been an honor and pleasure to serve. Working alongside DNC colleagues during the Dems Serve projects, meeting to talk about reforming the Party to make it more transparent, and all the while informing them of our unique issues like taxation, Selective Service registration when being denied the right to vote (in some states where parents have lived but not their children), and Social Security portability.
I want to serve on the Convention Credentials Committee to be part of the team that considers challenges by those who feel they are being denied the legitimacy to serve as a convention delegate. I want to be a voice for the Fannie Lou Hammer's of 2024:
In 1964, Hamer helped co-found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), in an effort to prevent the regional all-white Democratic party's attempts to stifle African-American voices, and to ensure there was a party for all people that did not stand for any form of exploitation and discrimination (especially towards minorities). Following the founding of the MFDP, Hamer and other activists traveled to the 1964 Democratic National Convention to stand as the official delegation from the state of Mississippi. Hamer's televised testimony was interrupted because of a scheduled speech that President Lyndon B. Johnson gave to 30 governors in the White House East Room, but most major news networks broadcast her testimony later that evening to the nation, giving Hamer and the MFDP much exposure.
"All of this is on account we want to register, to become first-class citizens, and if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives are threatened daily because we want to live as decent human beings in America?"
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Senator Hubert Humphrey tried to propose a compromise on Johnson's behalf that would give the Freedom Democratic Party two seats.[40] He said this would lead to a reformed convention in 1968.[3] The MFDP rejected the compromise, with Hamer saying, "We didn't come all the way up here to compromise for no more than we'd gotten here. We didn't come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired." Afterward, all the white members from the Mississippi delegation walked out.
In 1968, the MFDP was finally seated after the Democratic Party adopted a clause that demanded equality of representation from their states' delegations. In 1972, Hamer was elected as a national party delegate. SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Lou_Hamer
While I don't expect anything as blatantly racist and sexist as what happened to Hammer in 1964 to occur in 2024, any and all challenges should be met by a team as diverse as the Democratic Party. For this reason, I am asking for your support.
