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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.
Ah, how nice. Rory Reid and other Nevada Dem insiders get a second chance to force Hillary Clinton down our throats.
Oh, it's worse than that NVMojo.
Under this system, the campaigns (and ultimately, their Nevada "powers that be") get to choose the majority of the Nevada State Democratic Party's members for the next two years. No input from the voters, except do you approve Clinton's list or Obama's?
Bonnie Jacobs
I thought Delegates didn't have to make a choice.
What is democratic about a group of insiders passing the torch from generation to generation? With 3000 delegates registering the night before Hunt set up a little over 2300 chairs. Just what does an insider have to do to lose his juice (job)? Looks like they have their Super Delegates waiting in reserve and now they intend to choose the State delegates. I don't see anything American about these insiders.Personally I'm beggining to lean toward Ralph Nader.