Posted on 01/16/2008 3:40:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Former President Bill Clinton got positively riled -- as in steely-eyed -- today when pressed by a local TV reporter on the issue of lawsuits filed by Sen. Hillary Clinton's Nevada supporters to challenge the Jan. 19 Democratic "at large'' caucus locations that will serve workers on the Las Vegas strip. Many of those workers are members of the 60,000-strong Culinary Workers Union -- which has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama.
Clinton was in Oakland to talk up the home mortgage crisis on behalf of his wife's presidential campaign. ...
But it got fiery indeed when San Francisco's ABC 7 News bulldog politics reporter Mark Matthews grabbed him afterwards and pressed him on the Nevada lawsuits.
Matthews asked politely why the ''at-large'' caucus locations have been challenged by members of the teachers union -- many of them Hillary supporters. (The critics say the Strip location caucuses will give culinary union members an unfair advantage, one other workers don't have, to participate in the Nevada caucuses during their work hours.)
Matthews asked Clinton about the perception that the challenges were filed only after the culinary union's recent Obama endorsement.
Clinton, just inches from his face, fired back.
''There were teachers who filed the lawsuit. You have asked the question in an accusatory way, so I will ask you back,'' the former president said. ''Do you really believe that all the Democrats understood that they had agreed to give people who worked in the casino a vote worth five times as much as people who voted in their own precinct?''
''Did you know that? Their votes will be counted five times more powerfully, in terms of delegates to the state convention, compared to delegates to the antional convention.''
Matthews noted the state party approved the set up.
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Thank you very much. Sure sounds pretty odd, but at least now I know what they’re talking about.
I think he picked the figure “5 tmes” out of the air. It’s a matter of convenience: regular people will have to leave home to go to their precinct. Those working in casinos can vote right there. More in casinos will vote due to the convenience. Gives Obama the edge.
Matthews: If the culinary workers had not endorsed Obama, would they still be dealing with it?
Clinton: I think that the teachers and the people who are voting in their own precinct would have filed a lawsuit once they found out that the vote counts five (times)...you know, this is a one man, one vote country...And Im amazed nobody like you..you should be offended by this.
Yeah, right. If he told me the sky was blue, I'd check for myself.
Thanks for the information, but it still leaves me confused.
If 1000 people show up to caucus at one of the at-large precincts and they award x/1000 based upon the number who showed up, then that precinct would have x delegates.
Conversely if a regular precinct of 1000 registered voters has only 100 people show up to caucus, wouldn’t they also receive x delegates because it is based upon registered voters?
Yes, but if 10000 culinary workers show up for the caucus, that site will get 10x delegates, for Obama, with their home precinct presumably splitting between her highness and Obama.
I wonder if the impeached former president intends to renounce the use of undemocratic "super-delegates" for HILLARY! at the convention.
There’s video!
And, yes, he DOES point that bony finger at the reporter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955055/posts
Bump
So nice to finally see the press getting the last word on the Rapist. They didn’t simply put his lies on TV, they investigated and showed he was fudging the facts.
This report makes the Rapist look like the POS he really is. Also reminds people of the Purple Rage he gave Chris Wallace and what he probably looked like as he raped Juanita Broaddrick in April of 1978 at the Camelot Motel.
But this guy goes on to show what Clinton is saying is BS and pushes the Rapist to comment on the timing of the teacher’s union law suit - 2 days after the bitch loses the culinary union endorsement.
This guy does what the MSM usually does to the right, put together the story in a way that makes Bubba look bad.
I hope it’s a sign of things to come, the Clinton’s being shown for the sewage they really are.
Bill Clinton is turning into the OJ Simpson of the democratic party.
This is a great headline.
Strip caucuses and Bubba.
Yeah, but both he and Hitlery will be doing some hacking and slashing before this is all over.
Classic Clinton
Just like the old days,,
Bubba working the Strip.
What? It's not one person, one vote?
I guess Bill would have a problem with Clinton supporters from Massachusetts being bussed over to the Dhimmicrat primary in Delaware, then, right?
No?
I agree that the Clintons are only objecting because the endorsement went to Obama, and might well be trying to send his talking points to some judge who might intervene in behalf of the Clintons. The Kurintong machine is despicably evil!
HF
‘Only Nixon could go to China’ as the old saying goes.
I’ll add ‘Only Bill Clinton can remind you of what you disliked about the 1990’s’.
Thanks Bill! Couldn’t keep control of the Whitehouse without YOU.
Red-faced, gravel-voiced, his expression between a snarl and a smile, unable to control his snaky temper after a challenge. Bet he talked like that to his rape victims.
I don’t know about you, but I’m certainly cheering for a repeat of the old Clinton performance.
Politically speaking, not much would be better than for the Democratic candidate for President to only earn 43% of the vote in November.
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