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Clinton supporter trying to overturn my TX caucus

Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 08:52:34 PM PDT

I am ripped. I am so ripped.
I went to my Texas precinct caucus and sat -- or rather stood -- through three hours of of suffocating heat to cast my vote for Obama. Now, three weeks later and right on the eve of the district convention a Clinton supporter is trying to have my vote and all the Obama votes overturned.

I have given up my family time for Saturday March 29 in order to attend as a delegate to the party convention. This Clinton supporter wants to kick me out of the party convention.

I am ripped.

In a rambling letter beginning

Re:  Challenge to whole Obama delegation from Pct. 355.  

, this Clinton supporter makes a number of false claims about how the caucus took place:

- claiming that we started before the polls closed (untrue)

- claiming that we appointed rather than elected a Chairman for the meeting (maybe she slept through the "call for nominations for chair" and "all in favor" part?)

- suggesting that the name Obama was written in "suspiciously different handwriting" on the sign in sheets

- vaguely suggesting she thinks the Obama team padded their roster.

As a result, I and my fellow Obama delegates have to waste Thursday evening going to a g*d d*mn hearing hosted by a Dem Party committee, to stand and speak against her claims. She is requesting - - get this - - a re-vote, to be held this Saturday. She doesn't say how to notify 500 caucus-goers about her precious re-vote.

Saturday isn't just any day. It's the district convention, at which delegates from all the Austin precincts get together and vote for delegates to the state convention. So basically she's trying to game the state convention by knocking out all the votes from a precinct that happened to have a strong Obama win.

What I wanna know is  . . . how many of the 8,000 Texas precincts are experiencing similar sabotage attempts?
What I wanna know is . . . Of the 500 people who showed up to caucus, 480 were first-timers. How do those 480 feel about somebody attempting to nullify their vote?
What I wanna know is . . . how does the Democratic Party as whole feel about Hillary supporters telling 480 new voters, new party supporters, new activists, to go stuff it?

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Hillary is a Republican?

19%23 votes
10%12 votes
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