http://openthread.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/29/13338/0346/390/486755
UPDATE X3: Dirty Tricks At Texas Caucus in San Antonio?
by mayan
Sat Mar 29, 2008 at 10:09:42 AM PDT
I’m posting this short diary so that folks can know some what may be going on in Texas. I’m not trying be an alarmist or to be a handwringer. I don’t know what if anything can be done about these types of situations but I did think that as many people should know about this as possible.
Here goes:
This is what I read at The Field
There are apparently HRC dirty tricks happening in San Antonio districts.
More after the flip.
mayan’s diary :: ::
The correspondant, a Field contributor, had this to say in pertinent part:
(The Obama delegate) got there to discover a backroom deal had already been cut by Democratic Party leaders in the county, presumably, to set up the rules committees 50/50 Clinton/Obama people, but all the committee chairs are Clinton people.
Clinton’s campaign has sent a bunch of “at large” delegates to the Sen. 26 caucus to hang out in the event someone doesn’t show up at the right time, so they can step in as delegates. (The Obama delegate) is not certain if the Obama folks are doing the same thing, but she said she had not heard of this practice from the folks she’s dealing with on the Obama side.
Somehow, none of the Obama delegates from our precinct are listed on the rolls, so they have all been categorized as provisional for the caucus. She’s not certain if the Clinton delegates from our precinct suffered the same fate. She said this is strange because someone on the Obama side said they saw all the names entered onto the rolls.
This is referring to Senate District 26 (and also apparently, Senate District 18. The post went into more details but I didn’t want to break the three paragraph rule. Also, I note that this is, reputedly, a heavy HRC area in San Antonio.
At any rate, this is a public announcement. I will update should I learn or see more. I just wanted people to know that it ain’t just sweetness and light out there, at all.
UPDATE The first results are from three counties that had gone HEAVILY for Clinton. Thus far it is apparently C - 23 and O - 25.
OTOH, here’s an update on Burnt Orange Report that seems somewhat peculiar about Webb county.
1:15pm Update by David Mauro - In Webb County, it appears that Obama has not met the threshold and Clinton could carry all 51 delegates. While Clinton had expectations to do very well in Webb, a complete shut out would come as a surprise.
UpdateX2 Ugly Rumor Edition Don’t want to throw gasoline on fires...so, as long as I’m reporting ugly rumors (totally unstantiated, BTW), I leave this little prize on yr doormat. This is from Bhatany Report at
The Field
I heard that there is pushing and shoving at the Galveston County convention. And there was a move to adjourn the caucus. And the delegate allotments at the precinct conventions were also wrongly made, so the delegate allocations are messed up too.
I caution that this is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED. But...again, of interest. If true, don’t know who is pushing and shoving who and whether it’s all over. SO please take with a major grain of salt mine.
I also note that things are looking a bit down in the early going on Burnt Orange Report. C - 114; 0 - 43, with 4.58% reporting.
Update X3 Here’s a spreadsheet from Burnt Orange with convention by convention totals. For all you good little political junkies.