Clinton campaign looks to locals to challenge Obama delegates
03/26/2008
By KELLEY SHANNON / Associated Press
Spurned by the Texas Democratic Party in its effort to stall this weekend's county conventions, Hillary Clinton's campaign said Wednesday it is mobilizing caucus supporters and helping those who want to challenge the legitimacy of some Barack Obama delegates.
The Clinton campaign itself won't challenge Obama's delegates at the approximately 280 county and state Senate district conventions Saturday, said Clinton state chairman Garry Mauro.
"I have always known the grass roots to generate credentials questions," he said. "There's no systematic approach that we're taking to challenge anybody at any level."
But the campaign is using a behind-the-scenes strategy. It is giving legal advice to some voters who are mounting challenges and is having volunteer lawyers closely watch the proceedings, Mauro said.
"Are there going to be corrections in mathematical errors? Yes," he said, describing hypothetical examples of how a local delegate count might be changed.
Obama's campaign also has people looking closely at delegate counts and individual counties, said spokesman Josh Earnest.
"Our people are there to ensure that the process goes well and not to try to obstruct the process, and hopefully that's what their people will be doing as well," Earnest said.
Both campaigns have staffers in Texas to round up supporters and hold training sessions before Saturday's convention caucuses.
Hundreds of thousands of people attended Texas Democratic precinct caucuses after the party's primary concluded March 4. Those caucuses began the selection of 67 pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. The next step is the county conventions this weekend, which will pick delegates to the state convention in June.
The candidate with the most supporters signing in at each convention level will benefit in the awarding of caucus delegates.
Last week, the state Democratic Party refused a request from Clinton's campaign to postpone county conventions and take extra steps to verify the signatures of election night caucus-goers.
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From the beginning, she has attempted to de-legitimize the Caucus part of the Texas voting process.
Just keeping you up-to-date on her chicanery.
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