Posted on 08/26/2008 10:24:15 PM PDT by STARWISE
The Confluence:
Clinton Delegates are pi*sed. The Clinton National Delegate Network, a grassroots movement of delegates is on the streets of Denver collecting signatures from Hillary delegates.
This eleventh hour effort is being organized to ensure that delegates who were elected to represent the voters of each state can and will vote for the candidate they were pledged to.
The DNC and Nancy Pelosi, the Chairman of the Democratic Convention, are doing everything in their power to make sure that does not happen.
With Obama’s flagging support, according to the polls, running neck and neck with McCain, they are very worried that Hillary will get the nomination if a roll call vote takes place on the convention floor.
That is why they are making the delegates have a secret hotel vote, instead of the floor vote that’s been done since forever. The hotel vote will purportedly take place on Wednesday morning, August 27, 2008.
However, there is a DNC rule that says if 20% of a candidate’s delegates sign a petition for a roll call vote, it must happen.
This means that Hillary needs 826 of her delegates to sign this petition. I visited their headquarters along with BettyJean, Pagan, Hill08, and BrendaLynn.
As we set out on our mission, we got three signatures in less than one block. They headed for the Pepsi Center to collect more, and got about 40 in an hour, and I came back to Puma Headquarters to blog. Last word I got was there were over 400 signatures gathered.
Pagan reports that he talked to a delegate who originally supported Hillary.
The delegate declined to sign or divulge the delegation he was from. He said he would vote the way his state party told him to vote and that Terry McAuliffe had instructed them in how to vote.
When Pagan asked if he’d mind sharing what that way of voting would be, he also declined, and then just turned his head and refused to engage in the conversation anymore.
Delegates have reported to us that Obama supporters are stationed outside of each delegation’s room with clipboards, ready to make sure that once again, despite their best efforts to represent their constituents (approximately 12,000 voters per delegate in the case of primaries, and 585 in the case of caucuses), that Hillary delegates and voters are ROBBED of their democratic rights.
As recently as this afternoon, we knew that the hotel vote would take place in each delegation on Wednesday morning, and that Hillary would have a special luncheon with her delegates at 1pm. Rumor had it that she might release her delegates then.
“Oh, I really couldn’t. I shouldn’t. Are you sure? Okay!”
My first convention to watch all the way through was Ford/Reagan in 1976. It seems to be a bit of that model. Albeit 180 out of phase.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Republican_National_Convention
That's why we need a copy of the rules that were adopted yesterday. Every delegate should have a copy, and the American public should have access too. That is fundamental to fairness of the process.
It's starting to look like Howard Dean and Barak Obama don't want people to know the rules of their nomination process. If so, it's a scandal.
Basically Barack Obama has the Democrat party by the throat, and there is a obvious and noticeable air of Communism in the way it’s run now.
Remember how the little b*tch won in the Illinois elections.
You know it makes me think back to that GREAT speech by Zell Miller, the Spitballs Speech in 04. Man, I WISH we could get another one of THOSE going! Maybe have Zell speak on the IDIOCY of raising taxes in the middle of a rough Economy! Heck I would PAY to see that!
Priceless!
“What’s up with that!”
A practice run for Hussein’s brown shirts. Just a sample of what is to come if he is elected. Censorship on every level. Hussein already has control of the MSM.
What would happen if the Clinton delegates just didn’t attend at all and didn’t cast their states vote...would Nobama still have enough votes to be the nominee?
If the Dems have slimed Hitlary out, even though she should have been the nominee just think what they will do if McCAIN wins the election....
The rules should state the minimum number of delegates who must be present to constitute a quorum. If a quorum is not attained, the vote cannot take place.
Excerpt:
Kathleen Krehbiel, Clinton's Iowa vote-counter, said she made up her mind to switch to Obama after Clinton declared herself an Obama supporter in a speech Tuesday night. Krehbiel said she believed most Clinton loyalists also were coming around, even if some holdouts needed the "closure" of voting for her.
"I did not want to see a floor fight," she said. "I don't see any further reason to continue to carry out a pretense that she's a candidate. She's not."
Not all Clinton supporters were on board. Sonja Jaquez Lewis, a Clinton delegate from Colorado, said she and others may walk out if Clinton is denied a roll call.
"If we don't have an official roll call vote, state-by-state, it is going to reopen a wound," said Lewis, adding that she would do whatever Clinton asks of her delegates.
DENVER, (AP) -- Less than an hour before the Democratic convention calls the roll of the states, Hillary Rodham Clinton began an emotional gathering with her delegates Wednesday by telling them she was releasing them as delegates to vote for Barack Obama. Many in the crowded ballroom yelled back "No!"Clinton told her delegates she's not telling them what to do, adding: "You've come here from so many different places, having made this journey and feeling in your heart what is right for you to do."
Donna Darko?
Hmmmm
bttt
Wooooooooo ....
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