A group of Dallas delegates were assigned to "Kebran Alexander". Our form of communication was through a group text message. Kebran tested our response time to ensure that we were continuously responding to our cell phones.
I knew a couple of the other whips. Pam Dunham was a Tarrant County Whip and sat directly behind me. Another Whip was a good friend of one of my roommates. I told them both that I never met our Whip. They were quite surprised.
Each night we were getting orders via text message from our Whip. We were asked to check in when we arrived at the convention and were seated. We were given instructions on how to vote.
Unlike other delegates, our group had never met our Whip. This was quite odd. The Texas delegation wasn't that big that our Whip couldn't reach out to each of the 15 delegates he was responsible for directly.
My seat was surrounded by several of us who had Kebran as our Whip - James, Lynn, Becky, Katherine and Kenneth. None of us had met him. On Wednesday I added to the group text "We are sitting on rows 19 and 20 in section 118. No word. No "I'll try to stop by" or "I want to meet you too". It became a running joke between us. Every morning the delegation was together for breakfast and every evening at the Wells Fargo Center. Certainly our Whip could have made the effort to meet us.
Becky also wanted to find out what was going on. She asked him to send a picture of himself so that we could recognize him if we saw him. He did send a picture. We joked that maybe it was photo shopped, or someone else stood in and took a picture. Here is what he sent.
I still think it was someone sending texts from the Clinton campaign. Nothing has proved me wrong. See below for photos of some of the group texts. One thing for sure, other delegates got better more concise instructions than we did.
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