Wow! It's really hot when you go outside and it's 107 degrees at 9 o'clock in the morning!
I had a very nice boring flight from SeaTac this morning. There were people from the Phoenix Convention Bureau waiting to give me a ride to the Wyndham Hotel. Very nice -- the have plug-ins all over the place. There's one on each side of the bed at waist height. I can actually plug in the chargers for both my iPhone and my Kindle without having to crawl under the bed and/or unplug something!
We met this afternoon with the Vice Mayor of Phoenix whose mother is Mexican and his father is Polish. He's a pretty devout Catholic who is looking for the churches to stand up against all of the hate legislation and talk. Many of the Arizonians we talking with today are working to register Hispanic voters -- they've invited college students to come and help -- almost like the voting drives in the south in the 60's.
There are 18 of us here in our delegation, most of whom I've met over the past few years, though only five of us are Anglos. We're definitely in a listening mode. We'll hear more from the Chief of Police tomorrow as well as other city officials and then in the afternoon we'll be talking with local church folks.
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