A Democrat super delegate who is a prominent national party member is selling his vote for $20 million and says the money will be used to register and educate Mexican-American voters long neglected by the party.
The California delegate, a retired lawyer who heads the voting rights committee of the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus, admits most people might think of him as “some crazy guy in California” for the hefty price tag on his vote. He says the reality is that his own party is crazy for not aggressively pursuing Mexican-American voters.
So Sacramento super delegate Steven Ybarra, a renowned Chicano advocate, publicly warned the two candidates—Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton—battling for the Democratic nomination that his vote is not free. He also wants to alert them that the nation’s large Mexican-American voters are the key to the White House.
Ybarra, who once served as chair of the Democratic Party’s Chicano Latino Caucus, also made the news in February when he blasted Clinton for removing campaign manager Patti Solis, accusing the New York senator of being disloyal to Hispanics because Solis is of Mexican descent.
He circulated a strongly worded electronic mail that pointed out Clinton’s hypocrisy for depending on Latino voters in the Texas, Ohio and California primaries yet replacing her campaign’s highest ranking Hispanic with a black woman, Maggie Williams. He called the move “dumb as a stump” and assured that Latino delegates like him would have cause to pause. Nothing $20 million can’t help him forget, however.
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Obviously a person is only
Obviously a person is only racist if they are white. This is a real democratic process. Let the guy with the most money win, eh? We will never see the headline, "Racist Democrat Sells Out His Country", but that is what this is.
super delegate for sale
This is absolutely disgusting. I certainly hope that this guy is removed from the list of super delegates, but even better: remove all super delegates from the democratic process. This is an embarrasment for the Democratic Party and our country.
Whatever happened to the idea of one man, one vote? The Party "Leaders" have no right to change the course of history and invalidate the votes cast by citizens in the primary or caucus. This is wrong, wrong, wrong!
We are fighting to get our country and our economy back on track through this election and we have allowed our party to be criticized (with good reason) by our opponents and the world!
How do we change this?!
How to change this?
Stop acting like votes aren't bought and sold
Super Delegate For Sale
I am appalled at the existance of Super Delegates!!!! Go back to before 1984 when they were not in existance! What ever happened to a government of the people, by the people, for the people???? So much for free and fair elections!!
I did believe the Super Delegate votes have been bought all along! This verifies it!
Also, any immigrant who has become a legal citizen of this country should not have to be paid or financially assisted to get registered to vote.
As new citizen of this country, they should have already learned that it is a US citizen's inalienable right to vote if they are a citizen.
This is the 15th Ammendment to the Constitution written in 1870!!!
If they are not a citizen, then they need to become one!
Agreed.......this is a very
Agreed.......this is a very sad example
$20 Million Superdelegate
All it takes to make him turn his other cheek to all of his discontentment is $20 Million? Sir, you have apparently missed the whole point of this election! Only an extremely desperate human being would contemplate this offer and I don't think that person has $20 Million to spare.
Why is this legal?
Why is this legal?
I can't believe what is
I can't believe what is happening in this country. Every day it seams that there is another headline that just makes me say "What?"
This bastard ought to be in
This bastard ought to be in prison.
Power
Have you all never heard of Manifest Destiny? There is a battle going on now that is not talked about....who will conquer the United States? Latinos, Chinese, Muslims or blacks. It will be accomplished, probably not by warfare, but from within. My bet is on China. They have the money, numbers of people, and the intelligence. The Anglo/Saxon presence will never be the same, and Judao/Christian beliefs will be suppressed.
Wrong party
This creep is in the wrong party. He sounds like a good little republican.
Democrat for sale
Now, this I can recognize as a real Democrat! My only suprise is that Democrats are not selling the votes of dead super delegates. Dead Democrats have voted in every national election for the past seventy-five years. This is who the Democrats proudly are.
This super delagate should
This super delagate should lose his super status...stat!
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