Democratic Convention Watch: WI Clinton Delegate Will Vote McCain - WI Dems Challenge Her Delegate Status

Saturday, June 14, 2008

WI Clinton Delegate Will Vote McCain - WI Dems Challenge Her Delegate Status

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Hope this lady didn't already have plans for Denver... looks like she'll be staying home.

Bartoshevich told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, as reported on its Web site Friday, that Clinton was treated unfairly by the party and she has deep reservations about Obama's experience, so she'll vote for McCain.

Those comments prompted Democrats to support a complaint asking the national party's credentials committee to refuse to seat her at the convention. The resolution said Bartoshevich violated a Democratic National Committee rule requiring delegates to support the party's nominee and not any other candidate.

If the move is approved, Democratic aides said she would be replaced by an alternate that had already been elected.

"It's extremely important that we send a message that Democrats in the state of Wisconsin will never support somebody who supports John McCain for president," state party chairman Joe Wineke said to cheers among the hundreds of party activists. - AP

“I’m sure people are going to be upset with me,” said Bartoshevich. - JS Online.

You think? Maybe she can cross the river to St Paul for the RNC. I'm sure she can share a room with Joe Lieberman.

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Independent Voter · 880 weeks ago

Speaking of Joe Lieberman, knowing that Joe Lieberman has endorsed John McCain, why is the DNC allowing Joe Lieberman to attend the convention? I know he caucuses with the Dems but come on! Give this guy the boot already. So what if it means the Dems lose the majority in the Senate, the Dems always have the filibuster.

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Tim · 880 weeks ago

Pretty sad that someone like that has given in to that kind of falsehoods. Treated "unfairly"? God, I expected more from someone that's supposed to be an example democrat.

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Rita · 880 weeks ago

The Washington "experience" translated is political haggling without the people. Give me Obama any day, a citizen legislator is far better in the presidency than the one who is 20+ years gaming the system for power and personal wealth. He is has made it on his own, and certainly didn't marry into his influence, nor has he alienated half the country. I don't think Hillary could have ever won the general since right or wrong she is not well liked, but despised across the board as a power climber on her hubby's name.

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obamagramma · 880 weeks ago

She should be banned from attending for violating DNC rules relating to Delegates by endorsing opposing party candidate. I don't want a circus at MY convention.

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Cole · 880 weeks ago

Anyone who chooses to vote out of spite should have their right to vote taken away. This isn't the election for the 6th grade historian, this is the definition of the word important. Sore losers need to check their hurt pride at the door of the voting booth.

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ftroit · 880 weeks ago

This delegate is so stupid!!! He or she could've voted for McCain without announcing it to the world. After all she'll be all by herself in the voting booth in November.

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Turn The Page Americ · 880 weeks ago

Kick her Ass off the delegatecy!

These Hilla-Cows are just looking for attention...They graze around the blogosphere going from pity party to pity party...Just admit it, your Bigots who can't support anybody that's not White as snow. If you were truly about putting ovaries in the Whitehouse they'd support Cynthis McKinley who's on the ticket as the Green parties cadidate.

She's worried about Obama's "judgement"? I'd say he's got excellent judgement to have knocked off the biggest name in Democratic politics and not go into debt doing it!

Chicago politics makes for strange bed-fellows...So WHAT! This isn't Mayberry, USA...Its Prime Time National politics. Some people are as politically acute as your local PTA board.

Obama and Clinton are like 98% in agreement on policies and positions, McCain has a 0 ranking on womans issues, called Chelsea 'ugly', Hillary a closet lesbian, and snarled when a supportter asked him 'how we stop the B*tch'...Not to mention he's old as dirt, admitted he's never used a computer, and is looking for '100 Year' wars!!!

People like this Debra Bartosevich want a Monarchy, a Queen & King to bow down to, not a capable leader who will bust his butt to make the needed chages in this country's direction. She's a GROUPIE wanting backstage passes!

Obama'08 people....Its OBAMA TIME!

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Calm Down Folks · 880 weeks ago

Debra Bartoshevich of Waterford was elected to be a delegate for Clinton. Bartoshevich, who has worked as an emergency room nurse at Columbia-St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee for 15 years, said she got involved because of the need for people to have access to health care.

“I support her because of her universal health care plan,” she said in a speech before the votes were cast. “I see the devastating consequences of diseases on the uninsured.”

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...OK, and what "Univeral health care plan" does McCain have for you....Debra?

She needs to be removed ASAP!

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Neutral · 880 weeks ago

Wildcat - Just curious, are you tethered to your computer ready to post pro-Hillary comments at the mere mention of Obama's name?

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Deanna Foster · 880 weeks ago

Clinton supporters who now refuse to back the democratic nominee are not democrats. Some are just racist jerks but the majority who inflame people on these lists? Are republicans attempting to divide the party. Ignore them and rest assured they are the ones who sit at a computer, spittle runnning down their chins, and get off on this type of entertainment. I always wonder if their parents were breeding for stupid? or if they are just a stinking waste of genetic material?

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Sam Foster · 880 weeks ago

McCain? LOL The man left his CRIPPLED wife who had waited 5 years on him to come home from the war for a rich woman 20 years his junior...and he did this while wife 1 was in a wheelchair! He remarried tramp beer 1 month after his divorce.

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Chris Salzmann 0p · 880 weeks ago

McCain's history regarding women & issues: 1)DUMPED crippled 1st wife for rich heiress and former beaty queen. 2)Likes to refer to his current wife as TROLLOP and C-U-N-T when he flies off the handle. 3)Voted AGAINST equal pay for women. 4)Made off-color jokes about Chelsea Clinton. 5)Wants to give earners making more than $2.8 million (that includes his wife)the biggest tax cut in history. 6)Wants to give you a $5,000 tax-credit instead of affordable health insurance. That means you still need to come up with $5K to get the credit. Try telling that to a family of 4 making $40K. Try telling that to someone who has cancer or is involved in a serious accident and who can't get affordable health insurance. If these are the "Conservative" REPUBLICAN family values you all want, go right ahead and vote for McCain. He DESERVES your vote

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Andrew · 880 weeks ago

The Hillary supporters on washingtonpost.com who were saying this weekend that Tim Russert deserved what he got were the ones who really made me sick. I hope that no one dares say anything like that here.

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Get Real · 880 weeks ago

I probably should have said this a little better: Obama will receive a Mondale spanking if the Hillbots don't start living in reality. The Dems have always been a split party and now we all see it clearly. Better to keep the black man down and dependent rather than have him think for himself, right? Get over it lefties, the Clintons are finally finished. They were a cancer to your party (as seen in this last nomination process) and chose to destroy the Dems as they tried to gain power again.

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Jeanine Waters · 879 weeks ago

If things keep going the way they have, I'll definitely be writing in Hillary for Pres in November!

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Dose of Reality · 879 weeks ago

Actually, th female vote is coming home to Obama especially in key battleground states: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/pres...

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Women 4 OBAMA! · 879 weeks ago

Women voters choosing Obama:

"Now that the Democratic marathon is over, Clinton supporters like Authenreith are siding heavily with Obama over McCain, polls show. And Obama has taken a wide lead among female voters, belying months of political chatter and polls of primary voters suggesting that disappointment over Clinton's defeat might block the Illinois senator from enjoying his party's historic edge among women."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/...

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uplandpoet · 879 weeks ago

may i suggest my fellow obama supporters go easy on the folks who claim to to be dems but plan to vote for mccain, in part because they feel that their votes were diminished by the dnc allowing half votes for the delegates from mich and fla. of course the rnc applied the same penalty to those two states and of course obama would have won even if the states had been seated at full strength, so these folks have issues, mostly racial, from what i have seen, also some are probalby new to politics and have never had to bite down hard and deal with a primary loss. i have been around enough to have done that several times, one of the first times was voting for bill clinton in 92, glad he made it, but he was not my first choice. either way, they are not going to impact the general election. look for obama to win handily and for hi to have pretty nice coatails. come jan 09, we will hav erestored democracy to america and be on our way to once again becoming a civilized country. Hillary was to women what Jesse Jackson was to AA voters, a john the baptist clearing a path. we will have afemale president, and soon, but not this year. Go OBama!!!!!

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Moolaroo 0p · 879 weeks ago

Uplandpoet......cannot believe that you are insinuating that Clinton supporters support Clinton because they have "racial issues". God god....where have you been for the past 2-3 months? Ever watched and/or listened to Obamas personal family friend, mentor and spiritual advisor Rev. Wright and/or Father Pfleger speak to that subject. You talk about issues.....there's serious issues there -- issues that most definitely showed a downward trend in support for Obama after those issues were shared with the American People.

Obama has serious problems....the media won't say it - they're doing for Obama what they did for Dubya in 2000 & 2004 (remember that the New York Times didn't print the NSA Wiretapping story during the 2004 campaign citing "neutrality" as the reason). As I was saying, the media won't say it - but Obama and the DNC have serious problems.....that all point to another victory for the GOP. Nice work Obamabots!

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Billum · 879 weeks ago

There is nothing you can say to those that swear that they will vote for McCain because their candidate lost--they have made their choice. Just let it go.

I see the Republican party being filled with angry and bitter people, maybe they will like it better there.

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