Richards told the audience at the Democratic convention in Denver that her mother, the late Texas governor Ann Richards, had addressed the same crowd 20 years prior.
During that convention, the former governor introduced her granddaughter Lily.
Though her granddaughter eventually learned how to walk, spoke her first words and encountered the challenges and opportunities one's life normally presents, Richards told Democrats that casting her first presidential vote for a pro-abortion candidate would tops all of her mother's memories about Lily.
"Lily is here tonight and there is nothing that would make Mom prouder than that this November Lily will cast her first vote for president - for Barack Obama," Richards said.................
