I admire the care that SD 62 took with their approach to their convention. In contrast, SD 61's leadership chose to put our election of officers and our proposed bylaw revisions AFTER the walking subcaucuses and this had the predictable result of destroying our quorum. Now our leadership is confronted with the choice of convening a special convention - inconveniencing 500-plus delegates - or calling our central committee into session to finish what clearly could have been routinely accomplished by using the state DFL's senate district convention agenda template and addressing these housekeeping items early in the life of the convention. Control of our processes is a good barometer of the degree of change that is now occurring in Minneapolis' political life. We can well take a lesson from the evenhandedness in SD 62 that was so very lacking in SD 61.