2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders tries to meet with Black leaders but nobody shows up: Only 6 CBC members attended [View all]Gothmog
(144,920 posts)I was at a bundler event a week or so ago where I met Amanda Renteria who is the COS staff for the Clinton campaign. Sheila's had two representatives at this event.
Sheila was a very strong supporter of Hillary Clinton back in 2008. I worked with the Obama team on the Texas two step caucuses and a number of African American votes in Harris County were upset that Sheila was supporting Hillary Clinton over Obama. In Texas, there are county conventions held for each state Senate District in Texas. In my county we hold three separate county conventions because my county is gerrymandered by the GOP. Sheila lives in SD 13 in Harris County which is a gerrymandered district where African American voters are crammed in by the Texas GOP and so this district was very strong for President Obama. Here is a you tube video of Sheila at that SD 13 county convention.
I doubt that Bernie made any headway with Sheila but I will ask her at the Johnson Jordan dinner at the end of the month