Posted on 02/29/2008 10:29:34 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
February 29, 2008, 11:56 am
Texas Democrats Fret About Possible Lawsuit
Nick Timiraos reports from Houston on the presidential race.
Democratic Party officials have raised concerns that expected record turnout for next Tuesday’s Texas presidential primary and caucuses could be marred by a lawsuit from the Clinton campaign over the party’s election rules, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported today.
On a conference call with reporters this morning, David Plouffe, campaign manager for Sen. Barack Obama, blamed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the row, suggesting that the Clinton camp wanted to slow or stop reporting of the caucus tally on election night. “They do not want the caucus results reported on Tuesday night,” Plouffe said. “There is timely reporting and the Clinton campaign has deep anxiety about that.”
Obama has done better in caucuses than in primaries, and an attempt to slow the public release of caucus results on Tuesday night would benefit Clinton, particularly if she were to win the primary but fall short of Obama in the delegate tally.
Plouffe accused the Clinton camp of ratcheting up legal measures to a “new level” after the Nevada unions that supported the Clinton campaign had sued last month to shut down certain Nevada caucus sites for casino workers after the Culinary Workers Union endorsed Obama. Clinton won more votes in the Nevada caucus, but Obama held a one-delegate advantage in the delegate tally.
Texas Democratic Party lawyer Chad Dunn sent a letter to both campaigns late Thursday to warn that “such action could prove to be a tragedy for a reinvigorated Democratic process.” Dunn said that one or both campaigns may already be preparing legal action against the state party.
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This is unbelievable. The Clintons want to haggle and file lawsuits over the procedures in hopes of winning that way. Maybe they have a flawed candidate who prevents them from winning these contest outright?
I thought she was inevitable and this was supposed to be wrapped up on Feb. 5th. What happened Billary?
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We will change the rules — so you don’t have to.
Her internal poll numbers must not be too good. I’ll bet if she wins, then the way the Texans count the votes will be great.
THE SHADOW PARTY has taken control of the Clinton Campaign through ICkes and the Thunder Road organizations, what did you expect was going to happen?
Sore Loserman Redux.
Do it, Hillary. Burn the oil wells! You can’t let people do this to you. You have worked so hard and put up with unbelievable public humiliation from your husband. Don’t let them get away with denying you your destiny.
We should be rooting for Hillary now, until she gets the nomination.
Every vote counts, except when the Democrats count the votes from past elections and assign delegates on that basis or assigns “superdelegates” who are free to realign them with a different candidate as they see fit.
Chad Dunn? Chad Done? Will it never end?
More like K-Y Jelly.
and counting that her lawyers are better and trickier than obama’s
heheheheh
should be a bumper sticker
A question since you were interested in this a few years back:
What is the latest on Danny Williams (Clinton)?
Thank you.
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WEEEEE! Lets break out the beer and popcorn boys and girls. This is going to be one fun ride. Let the show begin!
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