Who are these Democratic superdelegates? (white- & blue-collar workers - and the unemployed)

LA Times ^ | 2/17/08 | Peter Nicholas

[Libloather]

Who are these Democratic superdelegates?
Those that may hold the balance in the race include former presidents, the party faithful, white- and blue-collar workers -- and the unemployed.
By Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 17, 2008

WASHINGTON -- John Millin, an ophthalmologist, fits people for glasses and performs cataract operations. Debbie Marquez owns a restaurant whose specialty is chicken enchiladas in creamy jalapeño sauce. Christopher Stampolis is looking for a job now that the industrial recycling company where he worked for the last decade closed.

They share one bond -- late this summer, they will help choose the Democratic presidential nominee at the party's national convention in Denver. When they do, they will be among a group whose ballots will count thousands of times more in the process than those of other Democrats who have gone to the polls.

**SNIP**

How powerful are superdelegates? In California, 370 regular delegates were allotted based on the votes of more than 4.5 million people in the state's Feb. 5 primary. That means each of California's 66 superdelegates will cast a convention ballot equivalent to a regular delegate picked by more than 12,000 primary voters.

"This is a device to try to reduce the influence of one-person, one-vote," said Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the watchdog group Public Citizen. "It's anti-democratic. It's specifically designed for the purpose of having the insiders . . . have some sort of final decision over who the nominee is going to be, regardless of what the voters want."

**SNIP**

Some of the superdelegates are professional politicians; 27 governors are among them, as well as every Democratic member of Congress -- including Rep. William J. Jefferson of Louisiana, indicted last year on corruption charges...

[Libloather]

Their formal designation is "unpledged party leader and elected official delegates."

WHOSE SIDE IS HE ON? Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton with Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights leader. A report last week that Lewis might abandon Clinton for her rival, Sen. Barack Obama, made national news.

[Caipirabob]

How's this?:

[kittymyrib]

“...including Rep. William J. Jefferson of Louisiana, indicted last year on corruption charges...’

LOL...this is rich! That this bunch of hypocrits hasn’t kicked him out of office yet and still designates him as a “super delegate” says everything one needs to know about the Democrat party.

[Diogenesis]

Superdelegate = one whose FBI file was stolen and how is held by the Clintons

[Dacus943]

The picture looks like Hillary’s left hand has got John Lewis in a testicle lock box grip!!!

[TomGuy]

All voters are equal, but some voters are more equal than others.

[TomGuy]

The other dirty little secret is that the GOP also has its set of elites. The GOP calls them uncommitted delegates, rather than Superdelegates, but their function is essentially the same.

The Dem Superdelegates represent about 27% of the number a Dem candidate needs for the Dem nomination.

The GOP uncommitted delegates represent about 19.5% of the number a GOP candidate needs for the GOP nomination.

[TexasCajun]

Superdelegate Jason Rae: Immune to Chelsea’s Sex Appeal

Former Victory Fund intern is nation’s youngest superdelegate

[mewzilla]

MILLIN, JOHN
CHEYENNE, WY 82009
CHEYENNE EYE CLINIC

DASCHLE, THOMAS ANDREW
VIA NEW LEADERSHIP FOR AMERICA PAC
04/25/1997 250.00 97020091265
06/08/1999 250.00 99020093493

MILLIN, JOHN A
CHEYENNE, WY 82009
CHEYENNE EYE CLINIC/PHYSICIAN

WY DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
05/10/2006 290.00 27990089126
05/16/2007 500.00 27930830784

MILLIN, JOHN A
CHEYENNE, WY 82009
SELF/OPHTHALMOLOGIST

WY DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
05/02/2004 240.00 24971338156
02/28/2005 200.00 25990243837

[mewzilla]

STAMPOLIS, CHRIS
SANTA CLARA, CA 95052
ROMIC ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES/

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC COUNCIL
03/25/2006 210.00 26930756674

STAMPOLIS, CHRISTOPHER
SAN JOSE, CA 95103
ROMIC ENVIRON

HONDA, MIKE
VIA MIKE HONDA FOR CONGRESS
07/28/2000 200.00 21036783420

[TheGeezer]

The majority of superdelegates are white men.

Nice L.A. times spin, though.

[mewzilla]

MARQUEZ, DEBBIE
EDWARDS, CO 81632
MARQUEZ RESTAURANTS INC./BUSINESS

DEAN, HOWARD
VIA DEAN FOR AMERICA
02/05/2004 500.00 24990843687

MARQUEZ, DEBBIE
EDWARDS, CO 81632
MARQUEZ RESTAURANTS INC/RESTAURAN

COLORADO DEMOCRATIC PARTY
03/31/2002 214.00 25991029526
03/29/2004 250.00 24991069176

LAUTENBERG, FRANK R
VIA LAUTENBERG FOR SENATE
06/19/2007 250.00 27020280524

MARQUEZ, DEBBIE
EDWARDS, CO 81632
SELF/RESTAURANT OWNER

WINTER, WILLIAM (BILL) GARDNER
VIA WINTER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE
10/16/2006 300.00 26950730099

[mewzilla]

Note to the paper: Looks like these folks have something else in common, too.

[ardara]

How do the super delegates get to be a super delegate?

[BuffaloJack]

Super Delegate sounds like an invention of the Politburo to make some party members more equal than others.

[AFPhys]

The numbers don’t tell the whole story, though.

Due to the rules of the respective conventions, the Demodog superdelegates are far more influential than those of the GOP.

[blueyon]

Could some one find out whether or not it is true that Billy boy Clinton is one of the super delegates. If it is true, why is it allowed since is wife is running for president. I thought I read that somewhere and have not seem it any where else.

[bolobaby]

” Superdelegate Jason Rae: Immune to Chelsea’s Sex Appeal”

I think we’re pretty much ALL immune to Chelsea’s “sex appeal.”