Dems regroup for county convention, Take Two

By J. Patrick Coolican

Wednesday, March 5, 2008 | 4:31 p.m.

As the Sun reported last week, a committee including a party luminary and representatives of the two campaigns will help run the Clark County Democratic Convention, which ended in chaos and a suspension of the voting last month.

The party luminary will be state Sen. Terry Care, generally one of the more respected members of the upper house and a well-liked, low-key Democrat. Also on the committee, Clark County chairman John Hunt, who took a beating over his management of the convention, state party Chairman Sam Lieberman, Obama representative state Sen. Steven Horsford and Clinton representative Rory Reid. Care will resolve disputes.

The do-over convention will be April 12 at at the Thomas and Mack Center, which should be big enough. (Last time, the too-small venue caused utter chaos when 10,000 people showed up.)

The campaigns and the party have put together a process for electing alternates, which was another cause of the chaos last month. Everyone seemed pretty pleased with the corrective course of things at a press conference today.

And, so, hopefully, that's the end of the Sun's in-depth reporting of the goings-on of the Clark County Democratic Party, though we'll be there April 12.