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You know I’ve just about had enough of the complaining, foot stopping and just plane old crap that continues to come out of the Hillary Clinton campaign. And, now their latest stunt is to delay the Texas County Conventions which are scheduled for March 29th.

I find it shocking and completely unacceptable that the Clinton campaign would stoop this low and interfere with the caucus process. The idea of Clinton continually complaining about the Texas caucus rules is not only hilarious but hypocritical since it was the Bill Clinton’s campaign that helped write those rules for 1992. Bill Clinton twice won the Texas primary using those rules.

Taking legal action against the Texas Democratic Primary has been in Hillary Clinton’s sights since February when they decided they didn’t understand the rules. I guess they should have asked Bill.

As for the foot stomping, on March 14th, Garry Mauro, chair of Clinton’s campaign in Texas and Guy Cecil, National Political and Field Director for Clinton, sent a letter to the Texas Democratic Party Chair, Boyd Richie stating the following complaints:

• Temporary Chair packets were released by the election judge prior to 7:00 pm
• Sign-in sheets were filled out before 7:00 pm
• Precincts were consolidated for purposes of holding a convention
• Precinct caucuses began before polls closed for the primary
• Ineligible participants voted or ineligible delegates were elected, including participants who were not registered voters, participants who did not vote in the primary, provisional voters whose votes were counted, and no verification was made of the eligibility of participants or delegates
• Accurate written records of participants, presidential preferences, and elected delegates were not kept
• Participants’ names and presidential preference were entered on sign-in sheets by someone other than the eligible individual participant
• Results were taken from a head count or hand count rather than the written roll
• Delegate votes were not ratified by the precinct convention
• Failure to follow Robert’s Rules of Order at the precinct convention

And to add insult to injury, the Clinton campaign has some demands:

• In order to review this, the campaigns will also need access to the voter rolls to determine who voted in the primary held that day. While the State Party has indicated that it will request this information from the larger counties and provide it, it is unclear how soon that information will be available. For the smaller counties, the campaigns must request it from each county.

I attended the caucus on March 4th and I can tell you that after spending a total of four hours waiting for everyone to sign, we were all certified as voting in the democratic primary. All of us signed the sheets ourselves for ourselves and we followed the Robert’s Rules of Order nothing illegal went on.

As a delegate for my precinct, who will be going to the country convention, I find the recent attempt by Clinton to delay the county conventions appalling if not down right insulting.

Clinton has done poorly in every caucus across the country so it’s not surprising that she did poorly at the Texas caucus. The problem is Obama will end up with more delegates from Texas and Clinton will have nothing to do with that.

The last time we had a litigious and voter complaining presidential candidate the country when to crap.

Posted by nytexan March 16th, 2008 | Category: Caucus, Clinton, Politics, Texas, Texas Democratic Party, primary | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL