Shenanigans from DNC ahead of Legislative District caucuses

[eridani]

58. This came from the state party and not the DNC

Their reasoning is very simple--they don't want to send alternates home if they can be persuaded to hang around for the membership and fundraising pitches.

In the 34th LD, the delegate ratio was exactly the same as for the precinct caucuses--70% to 30% in favor of Sanders. We elected 27 Sanders delegates and 11 Clinton delegates to go to the 7th Congressional District caucus. The biggest snag by far was that the number wanting to run for national delegate was far larger than we expected, and we didn't have enough laptops on hand to get them all registered in a reasonable amount of time. Nearly 200 people competed for the 27 Sanders opeinings.

A newbie Sanders delegate challenged the LD chair to be permanent chair of the caucus--unbelievably stupid, as the chair has ZERO influence over the delegate allocation. An hour and a half was wasted while the ballots were counted for that. (Jacob Simmons--if you are a DU member, you are an ASSHOLE!!) Of course part of that was the chair's fault, as she refused to make delegate contact info available to the Sanders campaign. The more experienced attendees might have gotten some education done for newbies which would have prevented this delay.