All:
In my opinion a similar disease has infected the trade unionism sector.
Richard
On 4/4/2016 8:18 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
I disagree. The super delegates didn't exist until the Democratic Party
became obsessed with controlling who might become a candidate and that was
when George McGovern ran, I think. The Democratic Party has become a
bureaucratic institution which is more concerned with its institutional life
than with representing the needs of working men and women. The super
delegates are there solely to represent the party machine. That's why
there's an outcry. Either they should bow to the will of the people or they
shouldn't exist.
Miriam
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If super delegates were to be bound by primary results this would have been
determined long ago by the Democratic Party. An elected official who is a
superdelegate should have the flexibility to vote how they want. This outcry
is getting a bit ridiculous!
Chuck
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Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:14 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Washingtonians Hound Superdelegate Who Supports
Clinton After Constituents Favored Sanders
Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org) Home > Washingtonians Hound
Superdelegate Who Supports Clinton After Constituents Favored Sanders
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Washingtonians Hound Superdelegate Who Supports Clinton After Constituents
Favored Sanders By Alexander Reed Kelly [1] / Truthdig [2] March 30, 2016
Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in Washington's caucuses Saturday,
yet state Rep. Rick Larsen, a superdelegate, is ready to vote for her
anyway. Sanders backers flooded Larsen's Facebook account, demanding that he
honor the will of his constituents.
"Superdelegates," explained [3] The Guardian's Trevor Timm in February, are
roughly 700 members of Congress, governors, mayors and other party elites
"who aren't elected by anyone during the primary process and are free to
vote any way they want at the [nominating] convention."
Washington voters overwhelmingly favored Sanders [4] over Clinton, 72
percent to 27 percent, in Saturday's Democratic caucus. The Vermont senator
carried every county in the state-and voters in Whatcom County, where Larsen
keeps an office, chose Sanders by 81 percent.
Roughly one day after the results came in, the following graphic appeared on
the Facebook walls of social media users across the state:
Sanders' supporters answered the call in droves. Beneath Larsen's posts
wishing constituents Happy Easter and congratulating the University of
Washington's Huskies basketball team on making it into the Final Four,
comments like these appeared [5] by the thousands:
Some commenters struck a strident tone, threatening to vote Larsen out of
office if he refuses to switch his vote.
One user started a Facebook group-"Rick Larsen- Represent Those you
Represent [6]"-aimed at organizing voters to place sustained pressure on
Larsen.
A petition [7] urging other Washington state Democratic superdelegates to
support the candidate chosen by the electorate garnered 25,800 signatures by
mid-Monday. Those officials, all of whom publicly backed Hillary Clinton,
include [8] Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and
U.S. Reps. Jim McDermott, Suzan DelBene, Adam Smith, Denny Heck and Derek
Kilmer.
Washington Democratic Party Chairman Jaxon Ravens and other officials said
they'd remain neutral until after the caucuses.
Will Larsen and his cohort listen? Elected officials fear disgruntled
voters. If Sanders' supporters get Larsen to change his vote, it will stand
as another in a long line of this election cycle's repudiations of the
common view that people power is a dead force in American politics. And
voters elsewhere may be emboldened to take similar action.
Alexander Reed Kelly is the Assistant Editor at Truthdig.
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[1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/alexander-reed-kelly
[2] http://www.truthdig.com/
[3]
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/democratic_partys_superdelegate_
system_threatens_bernie_20160211
[4]
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/26/live-results-a
laska-hawaii-washington-caucuses
[5] https://www.facebook.com/RepRickLarsen/?fref=ts
[6]
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1251015354926774/?notif_t=group_r2j_approved
[7]
http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/washington-state-unpledged?r_by=333771
[8]
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/sanders-backers-demand-was
hington-superdelegates-feel-the-bern/
[9] mailto:corrections@xxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=Typo on Washingtonians Hound
Superdelegate Who Supports Clinton After Constituents Favored Sanders [10]
http://www.alternet.org/ [11] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org) Home > Washingtonians Hound
Superdelegate Who Supports Clinton After Constituents Favored Sanders
Washingtonians Hound Superdelegate Who Supports Clinton After Constituents
Favored Sanders By Alexander Reed Kelly [1] / Truthdig [2] March 30, 2016
Bernie Sanders crushed Hillary Clinton in Washington's caucuses Saturday,
yet state Rep. Rick Larsen, a superdelegate, is ready to vote for her
anyway. Sanders backers flooded Larsen's Facebook account, demanding that he
honor the will of his constituents.
"Superdelegates," explained [3] The Guardian's Trevor Timm in February, are
roughly 700 members of Congress, governors, mayors and other party elites
"who aren't elected by anyone during the primary process and are free to
vote any way they want at the [nominating] convention."
Washington voters overwhelmingly favored Sanders [4] over Clinton, 72
percent to 27 percent, in Saturday's Democratic caucus. The Vermont senator
carried every county in the state-and voters in Whatcom County, where Larsen
keeps an office, chose Sanders by 81 percent.
Roughly one day after the results came in, the following graphic appeared on
the Facebook walls of social media users across the state:
Sanders' supporters answered the call in droves. Beneath Larsen's posts
wishing constituents Happy Easter and congratulating the University of
Washington's Huskies basketball team on making it into the Final Four,
comments like these appeared [5] by the thousands:
Some commenters struck a strident tone, threatening to vote Larsen out of
office if he refuses to switch his vote.
One user started a Facebook group-"Rick Larsen- Represent Those you
Represent [6]"-aimed at organizing voters to place sustained pressure on
Larsen.
A petition [7] urging other Washington state Democratic superdelegates to
support the candidate chosen by the electorate garnered 25,800 signatures by
mid-Monday. Those officials, all of whom publicly backed Hillary Clinton,
include [8] Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, and
U.S. Reps. Jim McDermott, Suzan DelBene, Adam Smith, Denny Heck and Derek
Kilmer.
Washington Democratic Party Chairman Jaxon Ravens and other officials said
they'd remain neutral until after the caucuses.
Will Larsen and his cohort listen? Elected officials fear disgruntled
voters. If Sanders' supporters get Larsen to change his vote, it will stand
as another in a long line of this election cycle's repudiations of the
common view that people power is a dead force in American politics. And
voters elsewhere may be emboldened to take similar action.
Alexander Reed Kelly is the Assistant Editor at Truthdig.
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Source URL:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/washingtonians-hound-superdelegate-who
-supports-clinton-after-constituents-favored
Links:
[1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/alexander-reed-kelly
[2] http://www.truthdig.com/
[3]
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/democratic_partys_superdelegate_
system_threatens_bernie_20160211
[4]
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2016/mar/26/live-results-a
laska-hawaii-washington-caucuses
[5] https://www.facebook.com/RepRickLarsen/?fref=ts
[6]
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1251015354926774/?notif_t=group_r2j_approved
[7]
http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/washington-state-unpledged?r_by=333771
[8]
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/sanders-backers-demand-was
hington-superdelegates-feel-the-bern/
[9] mailto:corrections@xxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=Typo on Washingtonians Hound
Superdelegate Who Supports Clinton After Constituents Favored Sanders [10]
http://www.alternet.org/ [11] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
