Delta Grassroots Caucus Events

Credit Michael Hibblen/ KUAR News, Arkansas Public Radio; Former President Bill Clinton speaking to the Delta Grassroots Caucus on May 2, 2013, at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock

U. S. Senator John Boozman, Arkansas, at a Delta Grassroots Caucus meeting at the US Capitol

Brad Cole, Executive Director of the Municipal League of Illinois; previously a senior aide to former Republican US Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois, earlier Mayor of Carbondale, Illinois, veteran Delta regional advocate, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

President Bill Clinton makes a comment to Delta Caucus Director Lee Powell at a meeting in Blytheville, Arkansas (in the northeast Arkansas Delta) on Nov. 2, 2014

The Delta Caucus would like to pay tribute to the late, great U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, a powerful force in the US Senate for decades and a champion for the Delta. Sen. Cochran passed away on May 30, 2019. He spoke to the Delta Caucus on many occasions over the years (he is pictured above speaking to a Caucus event on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC) and his thoughtful, courteous and bipartisan leadership will be sorely missed.

Marcie Lawson, Executive Director, Sikeston, Missouri Regional Chamber and Area Economic Development Corporation, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

Alan Gumbel, Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce, Memphis, Tennessee, speaking at the Delta regional conference in West Memphis, Arkansas on April 26, 2019.

Mayor Shirley Washington of Pine Bluff, AR, speaking to the Delta Caucus at the Arkansas Capitol Rotunda in 2017.

Caucus Director's Email Out of Service (Temporarily, we hope); & Mark Twain quote

Posted on April 18, 2024 at 03:09 PM

Technical note and comic relief: Caucus Director Lee Powell’s MicroSoft Outlook email is out of service. We hope this is temporary, but since Mr. Powell has the technological expertise of an oyster, the issue is still in doubt.

The unfortunate Mr. Powell clumsily pushed the wrong button and was ejected from MicroSoft Outlook, and he can’t get back in because he forgot his password. He has not been able to reach MicroSoft for a new password because he has been placed on hold for over an hour each time he has called over three days, and then disconnected.

(On the plus side, he has memorized the Muzak melodies they play while on hold.)

We have not been able to get through the cumbersome process for getting the password from the website.

They have a tutorial explaining how to use the website that lasts almost an hour, but I couldn’t understand it and started to get drowsy after 20 minutes on there.

If anybody needs to get in touch with LP, right now the only way is by phone at 202-360-6347.

Mark Twain’s advice on how to deal with a situation where you have choices that are both bad is the following:

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, eat him first thing in the morning.

If it’s your job to eat two frogs, eat the bigger one first.”

I have been pondering long and hard over how Mr. Twain’s advice can help me in my current dilemma. I guess he is too deep a thinker for me because I can’t figure it out.

I guess I’ll just have to keep trying. Surely I will reach MicroSoft before the May 30-31 Delta Caucus meeting by Zoom. Thanks–Lee Powell, Delta Caucus