and all candidates had input and it was approved by the State Party. Read this from someone involved:
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Derby is silent, which is good for now and John Hunt in not commenting which is very bad, because appearances have his fingerprints and a lot of fingerprinting toward him all over this tonight. He needs to speak up soon as Clark Chair and CEO.
Those Foley tried to purge were allowed to participate and almost all were put back on. I assisted several in getting back on, and nothing would have affected outcome during the Collins to Derby transition.
We adopted the rules in March and have been fine tuning since. The eboard had issues at times, I and others questioned the wisdom of same day, and still do, and us returning registrations to the County. We never settled how we're going to handle those same-days, and I want us to return them to the voter and let them mail 'em after we take their info. Others don't care how we handle that.
The actual sites, where they are located and who would be running them, was done by staff with each of the campaigns, and the eboard and SCC signed off afterward. No one was left out.
I frankly don't think we have enuf delegates for the Strip, and it has always been our intention to accept all comers.
Does that present challenges? of course it does. That regular lay folks won't be running the at-large Strip sites was a good decision as all are welcomed to poll watch 'em and keep an eye on everyone else.
This whole effort is a party meeting of gigantic logistical effort and expense, it is not an election....will there be glitches...yes...will there be nine Strip sites yes, because we are bound to the criteria and formulas we presented to our authorizing body, the DNC, which approved it all. yes, they approved it all and so did we.
We can't change the rules in the 11th hour because feelings are hurt, endorsements didn't go they way some thought, or because people now have some operational issues.
All you had to do was speak up, to me, or anyone else and I'm looking today at 4 SCC meetings with unanimous support in 2007...those matters not before the entire SCC were discussed and delved into by the Eboard and this is the final product kids.
It will be what it will be on 1/19, and we need your help to run the damn thing and that's tough to do sitting in the Sawyer Fed Bldg on matters already long ago settled.
Posted by: MikeZ | 01/12/2008 at 07:56 PM
http://www.lasvegasgleaner.com/las_vegas_gleaner/2008/01/and-now-for-a-w.html#commentsmore here ...
We are following the IA imposed on us by the DNC. The Strip sites were the brianchild of Harry Reid and Tom Collins. This is their baby albeit with colic and a diaper full of shit tonight
The Strip sites were the single most important thing in this whole process for NV's Organized Labor....they were ALL on board with the concept at the launch of the Nevada Caucus Commission and Harry and Tom cheer lead the idea... and now because the state's biggest and most powerful union didn't go the way some of the other unions wanted them to go, or the way Tom and Harry wanted them to go, now they're complaining and have damaged the candidates they prefer one week before zero hour.
Every Dem politician in the state supported the Strip sites. Every single one of them, so don't let 'em bullshit 'ya.
This is fact, there was no dissent.
Posted by: MikeZ | 01/12/2008 at 09:45 PM
I want to remind everyone that Tom Collins is the guy who signed the deal with Faux News last year for the Democratic presidential debate that never happened.
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