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Morning Among Delegates
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Sunday, April 13, 2008 | 2 a.m.
At 8 a.m. on April 12, 2008, voting booths opened to elect delegates to the Democratic State Convention. Some 7,300 Clark County Democrats were registered to participate. And, on this do-over county convention day, everything went smoothly - the final results showed 3,442 votes for Sen. Hillary Clinton (54 percent) and 2,900 votes for Sen. Barack Obama (46 percent). But some Democrats found themselves excluded from the process, either from voting or from being heard. (See related story.)
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There is no merit to John Geremia's beef about "not being able to talk to his fellow delegates" - there was a full day to do that at the January 19th Caucus and another full day at the first meeting of Clark County Democrats!
If he wanted to get on a microphone and "speak his mind" there was plenty of opportunity to do that at the previous two events. In fact, that is the main reason both these events went on so long - because so many are just looking for a venue to ventilate, whine, snivel, complain and gripe (while the rest of us are trying to move the process forward in a productive manner).
The most important place to be talking to people is in your neighborhoods, Precincts, State Senate and Assembly Districts and Congressional Districts, then with your fellow candidate supporters at the campaign events - I'm not sure he understands how politics is supposed to work in America?
As for the lady who had participated and had the pink credential slip proving she had been elected as a delegate - she definitely should have been able to vote. Sadly, out of the over 1,000 Precincts in Clark County, some 30% of them did not have competent Precinct Chairs and Captains that completed the Agenda and follow-up paperwork required. That's unfortunate, but not the fault of the NSDP or Clark County - that's the fault of Precinct people! I hope she reads this and follows up with her Precinct Chair or Precinct Captain in her Precinct!
Saturday was only about casting our votes for our Presidential preferance and the routine process of voting on the delegation selection and platform issues from Clark County to go to the State Convention in Reno.