Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Shameful democratic process in Cali

Delegate selection process in California is a circus! Here is how it panned out at camp Obama with its own 3 ring circus exhibition.

From the San Jose Mercury News:

'Several people who wanted to be Obama delegates were still feeling a little down after the Obama campaign's decision last week to purge more than 850 people from their California list of potential delegates, including Father Allen Ramirez-Martinez. He'd been an alternate delegate for John Kerry in 2004 and had done phone-bank work on behalf of Obama.

After widespread complaints, the Obama campaign reinstated everyone.

"They purged me and they don't even know me. I was upset, yes. What, no democracy now?"
But, he conceded, the show was about as democratic as it gets: It came down to who could get the most people to show up for you on a beautiful spring Sunday afternoon. '

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