Calif. Delegate Lists Under Scrutiny

[sniffa]

Barack Obama's and Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaigns are purging potential California delegates to ensure that only their loyalists vote at the national convention that will crown one of them as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Locked in a race with an uncertain outcome, representatives for both camps this week directed the California Democratic Party to remove dozens of names from the lists of more than 2,000 potential delegates. Party caucuses scheduled for Sunday will elect a slate of delegates for each candidate.

Driven by fears that some prospective delegates might be concealing their true allegiances, the campaigns are searching campaign finance data, scouring the Internet and making telephone calls to weed out dubious candidates.

Neither side wants to elect a delegate who might really support their rival, or other candidate.

They "want to make sure the people who are running for delegate for their candidate are going to stay true to that candidate," said Roger Salazar, a Democratic operative running as a Clinton delegate. "If they see somebody who is a supporter of the other side, they are going to knock them off" the list.

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Some say the notion of Trojan Horse delegates may be overstated.

http://www.wbt.com/news/details.cfm?ap_id=D8VULOL81

Have at it.

[davidinalameda]

1. I'm planning on being at my local caucus on Sunday

I'm sort of surprised, but not really surprised at how dirty this is getting

[sniffa]

2. Rock on

I salute you for going. :patriot:

[davidinalameda]

5. as well as you should

:bounce:

[dragonlady]

3. This is standard procedure

For example, according to the Delegate Selection Plan adopted by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and approved by the DNC, each presidential candidate is given a list of those who have filed for delegate status supporting that candidate. The candidate's campaign can then send back a list of the delegates that are approved. (They are required to approve at least three times the number of final delegates to be chosen.)

[crispini]

4. Oh...... you know what this says to me?

this says that they are expecting it to go to the convention.

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

We cannot have a contested convention in August and expect to do well in the GE!

Please let this just be belt and suspenders stuff on the part of the campaigns.