Buh bye Debra: Wisconsin Democrats Oust Delegate

[AZBlue]

Wisconsin Democrats on Friday ousted a delegate to their national convention for saying she would vote for Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain in November.

Embarrassed by a defection in their ranks, the Wisconsin Democratic Party's administrative committee voted 23-0 to strip Debra Bartoshevich of her status as a delegate to the Denver convention next month.

Bartoshevich was elected by party activists as a pledged delegate for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from the 1st Congressional District in southeastern Wisconsin. But after Clinton dropped out of the race, Bartoshevich told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel she would support McCain over Democratic Sen. Barack Obama.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_el_ge/delegate_dumped

[TexasObserver]

1. Good riddance to her!!

McCain my ass!!

[MidwestTransplant]

2. She will get a talk show on Faux

[RedShoes]

3. It's just awful that she would do that. And you KNOW it won't be long before they start blaming HRC

for this woman.

[slick8790]

4. I don't take any glee in this.

It's disturbing that ANYONE, no matter how small a minority, would find our candidate so unacceptable who agree with our party strongly enough to become a delegate.

I wonder if a simple phone call from Sen. Clinton could have avoided this embarrassment to our party.

[Colobo]

5. I'm with you there.

[Political Heretic]

6. I'm not sure if I take glee in it or not - no, I guess I am just very happy that she--

was not allowed to take her private bullshit agenda to the convention on my time (I consider the PARTY convention to be my time, as a member of the party.)

[AZBlue]

9. I'm pleased she was stopped.

I'm not pleased with or amused by the PUMA situation at all.

[Cha]

19. Just because the story says it's an "embarassment" doesn't

mean it has to be..why should Dems be embarrassed when the problem is clearly with the fucking bartoshevich?

No one can be held accountable 'cause someone else is stupid.

[davidinalameda]

7. another PUMA bites the dust

[struggle4progress]

8. Wisconsin Democrats oust convention delegate for McCain support (JS)

By STEVEN WALTERS
[e-mail]
Posted: July 25, 2008

Madison - ...

Bartoshevich told party leaders it was an “emotional time” for her when her preferred candidate, Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton, conceded and threw her support to Obama in mid-June.

At the time, Bartoshevich told a Journal Sentinel reporter she would vote for McCain instead of Obama — a comment that surprised party leaders and delegates to the state Democratic Party convention, who passed a resolution asking that she be ousted as a delegate to the national convention in Denver. National party officials told Wisconsin Democrats to decide the matter themselves, prompting Friday’s vote.

A nurse who lives in Waterford, Bartoshevich told party officials she had been “inspired” by Clinton’s run for the presidency, had donated to her campaign and had traveled to other states to organize others for the New York senator.

After the vote, Bartoshevich again said she planned to vote for McCain in November and that she was dropping out of the Democratic Party ...

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=776547

[derby378]

10. Bye-bye, Bartoshebitch...

Thanks for letting your own personal ego get the better of your own best interests. :mad:

[CreekDog]

11. But look at the parting gifts she got

[derby378]

12. Can we use those to whack her upside the head?

I've got a ton of hardcore Clinton delegates in my home precinct who are happy to be represented by Obama. Why can't Bartoshebitch get a fucking clue?

[AZBlue]

25. She'll be using those to play her one-woman show in Denver.

All babies love playing their pots and pans.

[AtomicKitten]

13. as it should be

K&R

:thumbsup:

[AZBlue]

14. indeed!

Feeling better?

:hi:

[AtomicKitten]

15. must.stay.off.planes

:hi:

[glitch]

16. God how horrible to be outed so publicly as a total dumbass.

Sadly she isn't smart enough to know it, and try to learn from it.

[Cha]

17. "Embarrassed by a defection in their ranks"?

How about "fucking pissed off"?

Ol' bartoshevich is the one who needs the "embarassed" label.

[MaryEllen71]

18. anybody think that she will be at the repuke convention? nt

[AZBlue]

22. We'll probably find out Monday she's the keynote speaker.

:banghead:

[Puzzler]

20. She clearly doesn't give a damn about ANY of the issues that Clinton stands for.

.

[AZBlue]

23. That's the most baffling and irritating thing about PUMA's.

It's astounding.

[depakid]

21. Now, if the Democrats would apply the same logic to their own members of Congress

who consistently cross party lines to vote with Republicans- the party might actually look as though it stood for something positive, as opposed to being widely seen as simply the lesser of two evils.

[anonymous171]

24. I'm with you there.

[WillyT]

26. BINGO !!!

:bounce::yourock::bounce:

:kick:

[BlooInBloo]

28. As long as the electorate is even minimally reasonable - unlike Connecticut, for example...

I'm all about the primary challenges.

[BlooInBloo]

27. Get that worthless piece of shit the fuck out.