Davante and I have known each other very long time. And it was actually state party elections, the chair elections in 2020, we actually were running mates. And I thank you Davante for joining me there. But I also want to bring that up because I think it's really important. Again, I mentioned at the beginning of the call the zoom, that I see my role as educational. I want to be very clear that I'm not running for chair, people have asked me why am I putting these things together, I'm just trying to let people know about this opportunity. When Davante and I ran in 2020, it was as a fill-in. There was another candidate who had been running for chair that dropped out at the last minute. So Davante and I stepped up so that there would have to be an election, that people would have to vote on the party chair last time, as opposed to what they had tried to set up was a bit of a coronation. And so I just mentioned this because I want folks to know that these positions that we're talking about today - and I'm gonna get into this a little more - these DSCC positions, the Democratic State Central Committee is the governing body of the Louisiana Democratic Party. And that's why it's so important. These are the people who vote on who the chair and the entire executive committee. Davante mentioned DSCC and the DPAC, the Democratic Parish Executive Committees, which are your Parish governing bodies of the Democratic Party, and a lot of the things we talk about today are transferable to DPACS. But the reason I'm focusing today and I've been focusing all year, in various ways, on the DSCC is because it's how you get new leadership at the party. And so that really is the reason why I have been spending so much time focusing on that. The reason why Davante and I ran in 2020 was to make sure that we'd get on on record those votes. And that's not to say that I want anyone to harass or attack anyone who voted for the last chair, we're going to hear from someone today who voted for the last chair. And so that doesn't mean necessarily that if they voted for her the last time that they would do so, again. This is just a moment for us to ask people why they voted, and the reason I'm reminding you that I was not initially the opponent, I was not initially on that ballot, is because I should not be the reason they give you for why they voted for the last party chair. Most of those votes for her were sealed up before the other person ever dropped out of that race. So I just wanted to give you that history, so that you have a little bit of better information to go on. Most Democrats don't know how we get a party chair. And that's what we want to talk about. Most folks don't know that these Democratic State Central Committee seats exists. Why? Because most folks go into these seats unopposed. So if 70% of the folks serving on the Democratic State Central Committee have received no opposition, then they're never going to show up on a ballot. And so you're never going to see them, you're never going to vote for them. The ballot that these seats are on is the presidential preference primary, which in 2024, is on March 23. That's when we're going to vote on our democratic state central committee members. And in my opinion, everybody should have competition. The qualifying for those seats, for those who are interested, is December 13-15th of this year. So we're just a few months away from people having to qualify for that. And what we'd like to do is... so again, I go back to this again, and again, now's the time for conversations. You should be going to your sitting DSCC member and asking them if they're going to run again, if they are going to run again, are they interested in new leadership for the party. I think those are really good questions. If you need contact information for your elected DSCC members, let me know, I can get that information for you. And I believe sunlight on all of this stuff is the best thing for moving the party forward. The other thing I'll just mention, as you're thinking about running, or as you're thinking about recruiting people to run, is that while I say everyone should have competition, what we really do want to do is just have one reformer. I'm calling it that it's just my term, it's not... there's not a reformer movement, per se. I'm just saying we should have one reformer candidate per district. There's no runoff in these elections. So whoever wins the most votes on March 23 gets the seat. If you sign up with no opposition, you get the seat. If nobody signs up for that seat, it goes vacant until the next chair appoints someone. But if there's more than one candidate for a seat, whoever gets the most votes on March 23 automatically goes into that seat. And they'll be the person voting for the next chair and executive committee. It'll be within 30-45 days of March 23 is when those party leadership elections will happen. The other thing I want to say to you, before I turn it over to other folks, is don't commit to a chair candidate right away. Make sure you see who else is going to get in the race. A lot of folks did that last time, where they threw in really early before they even knew who was going to get in, and it made it very difficult for other people who may have had more experience and better skill sets and it just made it very difficult for other people to even consider getting in the race. There are a lot of good candidates who are looking at this this year for exactly the reason Davante talked about. We all woke up a little bit stunned last Sunday with the news of who would be leading so many pieces of our state in the next four years. So a lot of people who may not have been considering this two weeks ago are looking at it today. And I think it's really important to start listening to some of those folks and having conversations with them. Think about what you want in a chair. The biggest thing a chair needs to be able to do is raise money. They've got to be able to keep the party open and they've got to be able to fund programs for mobilization, for registration, for training, for recruiting, all of that requires money. A lot of money. But they also need to have some political savvy. They need to know how to spend that money. And if they tell you their goals, that's great, but they should be able to tell you, step by step, what their plan for reaching those goals is. Goals are great. But goals are just goals. Unless they can tell you their plan, those goals are meaningless. Have conversations. And the other thing I'll tell you is if it's someone new to the Democratic Party, who has not been involved, that's fin. We can get folks who are new to the party, just make sure that they're aware they need some folks with institutional knowledge to help them. There's a lot of institutional knowledge about the Democratic Party that they'll need some advisor, some kind of advisor to let them know. And that's both national, statewide, and regional knowledge. So they're going to need all of those things. So I want to start talking to our DSCC members who are with us today, Ciara Hart, who is a current DSCC member and she's running for reelection to the DSCC. And Stephen Handwerk, who is a current DSCC member, who is not running for reelection to DSCC. Just tell your experience running for the DSCC, to start.