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5.19.2008

 

Super lot of work

Confused about super delegates, their role and their affiliations?

So was Vermonter Eric Warren, who has put in the time to sort it all out for you. Warren, who works for a technology company by day, has spent the last three months working deep into the night to compile info from newspaper articles and party sites on all the super delegates and putting them together on one Web site. Click HERE to get there.

He did this not because he had a great fondness for these people, but because he, like many, was unnerved that these super delegates felt like they had the super powers to choose who will be the Democratic candidate for president.

When he launched the idea it was hard to tell whether the Democratic Party might really let a handful of self-appointed powerful people go into a back room and decide who the candidate should be. Since then, it appears that maybe just about everybody realizes what a bad idea that would be, but still the battle over super delegates is key to the presidential race.

Warren is also collecting signatures for a petition on the site from Democrats who want to declare that the people should decide the candidate. It goes partly like this:

What we are calling for is simply this - the Democratic Party leadership must not overturn the ultimate choice of the people. We can wait until every state primary and caucus event has occured to count those pledged delegates, but at the end of the process they are ultimately what must be counted.



Warren, who lives in Bradford and has a family and a life, realizes this info only has a shelf life of a few months, but he's thinking the Web site could evolve into a political information source. Check it out.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
As we approach the first election season with GOP Chair Rob Roeper at the helm, let's check in to see how Robbie is doing:

-No GOP candidate for Congress
-No GOP candidate for Sec of State
-No GOP candidate for Treasurer
-No GOP candidate for Atty General

Wow! Heck of a job, Robbie!
 
Big score for Roeper today -- Kerin Kerin is running for AG again!

Fantastic! That'll save the day for the GOP.

What's next? Nancy Sheltra for Congress?
 
As a lifelong Republican I am embarrassed by Kerin. I heard "her" speech on Saturday and I'm left wanting for a real candidate against Sorrell. "she" is a continual loser.
 
... like a lot of Republicans.
 
But how about that Republican delegate Randy Brock and his rousing speech at the Republican convention telling the Democrats how it "really" is!
 
Vt Statutes require that a candidate for statewide office has to live in VT for at least 2 years!
 
Brock's wife and kid are registered in Florida where they live and the kid goes to school.

When Brock was Auditor, he was always on the road - and hardly ever in the office.

Let's see, he must have been in living in Florida!
 
Naples Florida nad still is!
 
Hey, How about the 2 and 1/2 acre garden he has in Naples - that takes year round attention and lots of press to cover it.
 
Gimme!, Gimme Sheltra!
and watch Vermont gops fade away!
 
yawn
 
Coopy,

Did you major in Rock Song parodies at NYU?

You are such a cool dude.
 
Go, Pollina , Go
 
Oh, yeah - all the way to the coffee shop!
 
Help me figure this out. I got bupkis on this.

Karen Kerin was a man, now it's a lady. Right?

And what was it before it was a joke of a Republican? A Dem? A Prog? A white male Republican?

And Kerin was critical of Sorel on his 2nd amendment protection? Uh, what gun rights have been trampled in Vermont in the last, oh, 200 years?

Anybody?

Can any of the RW sloganeers (Ehlers, Bleaudry, Gibbs) help me out?
 
Oh, the sad progs!
 
They really are sad.
 
Deb Richter should stay far away from them.
 
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