Minnesota Democrats Unite Against Superdelegates

[azurnoir]

Now that We have voted for Bernie Sanders by a 62% to 38% margin here in Minnesota, we need to pressure our superdelegates to change their Votes. Keith Ellison is the only superdelegate supporting the way Minnesotan’s voted. Call your reps and senators today to tell them to change their vote. Here is the list of superdelegates and their commitments;

there are 17 supers from Minnesota

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/3/4/1495863/-Minnesota-Democrats-Unite-Against-Superdelegates

[silvershadow]

1. Bookmarked. nt

[oldandhappy]

2. Will be watching.

[Brickbat]

3. Reps Rick Nolan and Colin Peterson have pledged for Sanders as well.

[ISUGRADIA]

4. To what end?

Sanders wins the state so he should get all of the delegates? Or 62%

The party did away with winner take all presidential contests years ago.

[jwirr]

6. So far the conventions have elected delegates for the National

Convention following the 62% - 38% ratio. But at the State convention I think another dozen or so will be elected there. Hopefully the State Party will follow the ratio like we did at district conventions.

District 8 elected 6 Bernie delegates and 4 Hillary delegates (I think I am correct) for Philly. Delegates who go to the State Convention will be able to vote more - but if they follow the ratio only the party leaders know.

[ISUGRADIA]

7. The caucus vote is binding in MN

So the division of delegates will be based on the statewide vote.

[jwirr]

8. Even those chosen at the State Convention. They are the

only ones left to choose. That would be very good. And what I would expect to happen in our state. Just things are so different this year. Have a hard time trusting anyone.

[ISUGRADIA]

9. It should be the same at the state

I.e Sanders should get the same % of delegates as his statewide vote. At the congressional level it was based on the vote in the district.

We are different than Nevada, the count is based on the caucus voters, not the number of those who show up at the state convention.

[jwirr]

10. Thank you. I and my friend are going to the state as either

delegates or alternatives this time. We both worked for McGovern in 72 and we are calling this our last Whoo Rah.

I laughingly tried to talk my sister into going to the Bernie events in DC but her kids would not let her and they would have had to push us in wheelchairs anyhow.

Thanks for the info.

[ISUGRADIA]

11. I hope you have a great time

It should be much more pleasant than other states' conventions and Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis is very nice from the recent remodel. Was too young for the 72 convention, but I met McGovern in 1984 in Iowa.

[jwirr]

13. Well, we did have fun and Orchestra Hall is beautiful. However,

what we both found out very soon was that we should have stopped while we were ahead. I am 74 and she is a few years younger.

By the time for the lunch break we were dead tired. We were from District 8 and there is big reason to be proud of that area. All of our delegates came and we had so many alternatives that we did not have enough room to set.

That also meant that they were going to have a hard time rotating the alternatives so that everyone would have a chance on the floor. I have from the beginning deferred to the young delegates so after lunch break we decided to go home - we told the others that we wanted the youth down there on the floor instead of us.

By the time we were half way home our driver was just laughing - the two ladies in the back seat were sound asleep.

But yes it was very worthwhile going. Rick Nolan and Keith Ellison gave really beautiful speeches and the rest did okay also.

[question everything]

5. When Sanders joined the race he knew

or should have known about the Super delegates. These are elected Democrats who ran as Democrats and helped raise funds for other Democratic candidates. None wished that Obama would be challenged in 2012.

That now he, and his supporters want to change the rules in the middle of the game, like Trump with his party, I can borrow the RNC chair comment: give us a break!

[jwirr]

12. One of the platforms at the convention called for the elimination

of Super-Delegates but I don't know if it was left in the finished package.

[dflprincess]

14. I was not at the convention

but somewhere (probably on Facebook) I did see that it passed.

[jwirr]

15. Great. One step closer to the change we need.