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Obama, Clinton camps working on hotel roll-call vote
Denver Post ^ | 08/25/2008 | Chuck Plunkett and Allison Sherry and Kimberly Johnson

Posted on 08/26/2008 6:46:03 AM PDT by COUNTrecount

Supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton are furiously circulating petitions on the floor of the Democratic National Convention tonight, hoping to stave off a plan to hold the convention's roll call at breakfast Wednesday — out of the public eye — sources inside the delegations say.

The move being worked out between the Obama campaign and officials behind Clinton's suspended bid, would work in two parts: Delegates would cast votes at their hotels Wednesday morning; that night, at the Pepsi Center convention site, the roll-call process would rely on the votes cast that morning, the delegates said.

Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, a former state co-chair for Clinton said she knows the camps are in negotiations about what to do.

"My view is we need to come together as a party," DeGette said. "I admire Hillary Clinton greatly, but I think it would be divisive to have a vote on the floor. We need to have a unanimous vote."

The evening event would call on the delegation from Illinois, which Obama serves as the junior senator, and then move to New York, which Clinton represents.

After New York delegates applaud Clinton's long-fought and historic candidacy, a motion would be made to accept the votes cast at breakfast.

The move is being resisted by some Clinton delegates, who are busy tonight circulating a petition among delegates as the opening night of the convention, titled "One Nation," gets underway.

"We just want a roll call like you're supposed to have," said one of the delegates collecting signatures for the petition, who asked not to be named because of concern about friction within the party.

The Obama campaign denied that there would be a change.

"This is not true," Jennifer Backus, a senior advisor, said in an email in response to a question about the negotiations for the roll call change.

David Harper of Macon County, Tenn., signed a petition to ensure a floor vote in the hall surrounding the Pepsi Center.

"I came out here by God to vote for her, and I'm going to do it," Harper said, visibly angry about the news.

Kelly Jacobs a die-hard Clinton supporter from Hernando, Miss., an area that went heavily for Clinton, stood in the hall collecting signatures. She said the Clinton backers need 800 to secure a floor vote.

Anything less than that, Jacobs said, would be an insult to her candidate.

"I could have voted from home," Jacobs said. "She is our captain. We don't want to see her disrespected."

She was furious, she said, when she learned this morning that the votes may be held at the delegate hotels instead of on the convention hall floor.

"That's not what we learned in civics class," Jacobs said.

Texas delegate Tory Lauterbach said she has heard about the petition, but is unsure if she will sign it.

"I think the votes should be cast and counted the way they have been historically," she said. "But I don't think every delegate needs to stand and say something. I want a good convention."

So does Sally Phillips of Tampa, Fla. She said that although she is a Clinton supporter, she will undoubtedly support Obama because she doesn't want another Republican in the White House.

"I think the world of her," Phillips said. "I've seen the petition but I'm not going to focus on that."

The discussions come after a long summer in which Clinton delegates have argued for a chance to be heard during the convention. The party wants unity, and the announcement made by Obama and Clinton last week that a floor vote would occur was meant to provide that opportunity.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008dncconvention; hillary; obama; rollcall; unity
Why not just text in the roll call of votes ?It worked great with the Biden pick.


1 posted on 08/26/2008 6:46:03 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Shrillary says if I don’t get a roll call vote in the hall, how can I expect to get my 2008, I mean 2012 campaign into gear?

This is really quite funny.


2 posted on 08/26/2008 6:50:26 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: COUNTrecount

Rules are for the little people, not for the mighty DNC.

If nobody sees the roll call vote, then who’s to know what the real vote numbers are?


3 posted on 08/26/2008 6:50:43 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: COUNTrecount

Angry Hillary! supporters defecting to McCain:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeGPzk8Oca8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH92E5vWrjk&feature=related


4 posted on 08/26/2008 6:51:40 AM PDT by XR7
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To: COUNTrecount

Who would EVER play the “trust me” game with a Clinton or a Chicago-trained politician? Who will “hold” the ballots between morning and evening, and how badly will the ballots be molested in the interim? WTF?


5 posted on 08/26/2008 7:12:53 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: XR7

There was also a telling YouTube video that showed super delegates being bought off by campaign contributions, even though their district went for Hillary. Looks like Obama has out-thugged the Clintons, and that takes some doing.


6 posted on 08/26/2008 7:14:07 AM PDT by FlyVet
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To: COUNTrecount

Well if you can vote remotely...from a hotel I guess there is no reason it even has to be in Denver.

and what about the delegates that partied the night before and are sleeping until the afternoon?


7 posted on 08/26/2008 7:19:51 AM PDT by rod1
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To: COUNTrecount

...And so began the Night of the Long Knives.


8 posted on 08/26/2008 7:24:51 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: COUNTrecount
"That's not what we learned in civics class," Jacobs said.

Welcome to the world run by Democrats.

9 posted on 08/26/2008 7:26:42 AM PDT by sionnsar (Obama? Bye-den! |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: Southack

And a goblot of cash to trade hands.


10 posted on 08/26/2008 7:32:30 AM PDT by Vaduz (and just think how clean the cities would become again.)
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To: COUNTrecount

There may be a Sybil War right there on the convention floor.


11 posted on 08/26/2008 7:41:46 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: FlyVet
Looks like Obama has out-thugged the Clintons, and that takes some doing.

He's from Chicago.

12 posted on 08/26/2008 7:44:08 AM PDT by XR7
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To: COUNTrecount

The great Democratic “hidden vote” trick.

They’re so used to voting dead people and folks who dont show up at the polls that they don’t see anything strange or undemocratic about this.

Not to mention that it won’t play well in the press. Just the discussion about it as a way to paper over the dissension shows the problems within the party


13 posted on 08/26/2008 8:25:32 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: SERKIT
Tonight will be Reichkristallnacht with heads exploding the next 16 hours as the side-by-side DNC, Hillary and Obamba fascist thugs and delegates eat other up.

By Wednesday morning, nothing will remain of any of them except some remnants and tatters of gingham and calico littering the convention floor.

Leni

14 posted on 08/26/2008 8:38:39 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Stay Home in Nov & Vote for Obama-ization, More Regulation, Taxation, Litigation and Ginsburgization)
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To: SERKIT
Tonight will be Reichkristallnacht with heads exploding the next 16 hours as the side-by-side DNC, Hillary and Obamba fascist thugs and delegates eat other up.

By Wednesday morning, nothing will remain of any of them except some remnants and tatters of gingham and calico littering the convention floor.

Leni

15 posted on 08/26/2008 8:38:47 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Stay Home in Nov & Vote for Obama-ization, More Regulation, Taxation, Litigation and Ginsburgization)
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To: MinuteGal
Pardon the double posts.....FR is limping badly this morning. I'm saying my beads it doesn't go down again for tonight....and I'm not even Catholic!

Leni

16 posted on 08/26/2008 8:42:16 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Stay Home in Nov & Vote for Obama-ization, More Regulation, Taxation, Litigation and Ginsburgization)
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To: FlyVet

I was saying this before the primaries were even over. The Clintons can’t hold a candle to the Obamessiah.


17 posted on 08/26/2008 8:49:39 AM PDT by beckysueb (Drill here! Drill now!)
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