Whitewashing Challenges To Texas Democrats’ Senate District, County Conventions
Vince Leibowitz | May 15, 2008 | Comments 0
As someone who has read and reviewed all of the 120 challenges to the Texas Democratic Party’s senate district and county conventions held in March, I find the following statement from the San Antonio Express-News to be more like a whitewash than legitimate reporting:
A Houston Chronicle review of more than 120 challenges on file with the state party found that most are attempts to change senatorial district convention delegate allocations but are not intended to create a wholesale turnover of the number of state convention delegates that Obama and Clinton will receive.
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Some of the challenges are as simple as a single delegate feeling they were unfairly excluded from attending the state convention. Others claim their district conventions did not follow party rules and ask the state party to reallocate delegates to the state convention.
Either the media didn’t review the challenges closely or doesn’t understand them, because they are far more than mere claims that conventions “did not follow party rules.”
It wasn’t just a mere “failure to follow party rules,” but deliberate attempts to circumvent the process, party rules, and the voting rights of other delegates.
Later this afternoon, we’ll post more on this, and provide specific instances from several conventions from around the state.
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