deanna hyatt will be my second cochairperson. that is because --. i live in the country, 15 miles away. sometimes the weather does not have be driving in it. so, somewhere here in boone. she has help from home so that she can always get here. that will be good for me too. that way i don't always feel like i have to brave the weather to get here. so, thank you, everyone, for coming. >> i would like to add a few things if i could, please. eileen is the chair of our committee called caucus to convention that incorporates even our county convention. the amount of work that that individual is tasked with is is really avoidable and it takes a lot of planning. this did not just start this week or a month ago. it actually started well over a year ago. eileen has done it enough and has done it several times. she has had very constructive ideas on how to change the booklet and i think it is important this comes out. she gave the information to me and i took it to the state central committee and some changes were made to simplify it. we previewed that and i kn