Either Rick Palacio threw a Twitter party, and nobody came – or we weren’t invited.

While Colorado media have been reporting this afternoon that the outgoing state Democratic Party chair is now seeking the national party’s vice chairmanship, we couldn’t help notice he already has been tweeting about it for some time. Since Inauguration Day, in fact. Yet, it doesn’t appear that even the Twitterer in chief noticed, or surely he would have had something to say via the Twittersphere.

Here’s Palacio on Jan. 20:

…and on Wednesday of this week:

Palacio already had a lengthy statement making his case for the race up on the web as of a couple of days ago – visible to the whole world. Which means it probably has drawn a couple of hundred Russian spam posts by now (alas, we speak from experience). “Why i’m running for DNC Vice Chair,” which he posted via the service Medium, tells his story – it’s actually a pretty decent read – and concludes:

…I’m ready to stand for you, and I’m ready to stand with you. Because I know that when we do, nothing can stand in our way.

I’d love to chat more. email me at rick@rickpalacio.com

To learn more about me and my plan to move our Democratic Party forward, please visit my website www.rickpalacio.com.

Palacio’s bid even picked up a mainstream-media mention or two earlier this week, like this one in the Sun-Sentinel newspaper – across the country in Florida, of all places:

Besides (Broward County Florida former Democratic Party Chair Mitch) Ceasar, who lives in Plantation, candidates for DNC vice chairman are Michael Blake, a state legislator from the Bronx, N.Y., who worked in the Obama campaign and in the White House, Rick Palacio, chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party; and Adam Parkhomenko of Arlington, Va., who was the DNC’s national field director last year after serving in a top Clinton campaign job and co-founding a pro-Clinton super political action committee. The party also elects a vice chairwoman.

Of course, we discovered all of this after the fact. Don’t we feel a bit silly.

For sure, any such campaign requires a lot of advance planning, and we trust that a methodical mover and shaker like Palacio was laying the groundwork even before he mass-emailed Colorado Democrats in November to announce he would not seek another term as state party chair after six years in the saddle. Yet, we’re not talking plans, here; it seems he to all intents and purposes launched the campaign, publicly, days ago.

Well, at least, now, we all know. And, with trusty Twitter at our side, we’ll keep you apprised of further developments.