Episode 35: Rock Hill Protest / SCDP Convention / Tim Walz Keynote

Saturday, May 31, 2025, was a busy day for the YCDP TV Media Empire. In the morning, our Columbia bureau (Gary) covered the South Carolina Democratic Party annual Convention. We're not showing you the whole thing*, but we are including all of the (short) speeches by candidates you'll see on your York County Primary ballot in June, 2026: Senate (4), Governor (1), Superintendent of Education (1) and US House from SC 5 (1). (The Primary is a year away, so we may well see more candidates for any of those offices.) We also meet a couple of popular South Carolina Public Radio journalists. Minnesota Governor and 2024 Vice Presidental candidate Tim Walz was the keynote speaker, and while he came first at the convention due to his busy schedule, we're putting his 45 minute speech at the end of this video. In the afternoon, our Rock Hill Bureau (also Gary) dropped in on the bi-weekly protest in Rock Hill. We meet more of your York County neighbors with their signs, and talk to the world-famous EASTER BUNNY, this time disguised as an American Eagle. Episode-wise, we're presenting the Rock Hill protest first because it's fairly short, then the SCDP Convention, and again we put Tim Walz's longer speech at the end (the way the grocery store puts the milk at the back of the store). *Almost the whole convention was streamed live by Fox5 Television in Washington DC. They got started late, during Tim Walz's keynote, but he was the first speaker (and we have all of it in this episode), and then they hang in there until the end - all the 'business' of the convention and speeches from candidates who won't be on a York County Primary ballot. The YouTube link is: https://www.youtube.com/live/7UvEvJ5htHw?si=jmo_hf2OLl67Gc-4