Will US Senator Patrick Leahy lose the Aug. 9th primary after giving his super delegate votes to Hillary Clinton?
Cris Ericson (D) vs. US Senator Patrick Leahy (D) Vermont primary election Aug. 9th.
Will Bernie fans revolt against Patrick Leahy for giving super delegate votes to Hillary Clinton?
SAPA TV, Monday June 20, 6:15 PM Cris Ericson, candidate for US Senate, Democratic Party running against U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy.
Could someone please download this and upload it to YouTube and send Cris Ericson their youtube link of it?
crisericson@yahoo.comhttp://www.sapatv.org/sapa-tv-channel-10/
Please email the station and ask them to put it on their “server” for the public. Thank you!
No and no.
No and no.
Of course
Yes, and yes.
(Just had to even it up).
So you favor equality over
So you favor equality over honesty? Of course Patrick Leahy will not lose the August Primary. His super delegate votes mean nothing in the larger framework of things and he has every right to cast his super delegate vote for the candidate he thinks is most qualified.
Voters can cast votes, too!
I was joking about losing the primary, he’s a Senator for Life, but not about him losing votes because of his political decisions. Make a lame decision in the views of voters, they may withhold their support.
“he has every right to cast his super delegate vote for the candidate he thinks is most qualified.”
Yes. Except that he is casting it for someone he made a promise to long ago. That was his first stated reason. Not qualifications. Then he experienced backlash and changed to “whichever candidate gets the most pledged delegates.” Not in Vermont, but nationwide. So Clinton. But not for qualifications.
I’m not sure how you can separate equality and honesty. Dishonest equality? Honest inequality? Huh?
And, what if we voters voted based on promises or pledged delegates. Wouldn’t that be weird? Along the lines of: I promised Sanders back in 2008 that if he ran I’d vote for him, so, sorry Clinton. He won Vermont, and I promised. : )
If that were the case, I think you’d say that if I followed Leahy’s example, I’d be helping Trump!
Scrapped
Of course, this candidate’s two questions were rhetorical. I found your yes/yes and Rosa’s no/no amusing.
The rest of it was campaign material.
This whole two-party system needs to be scrapped but I won’t be around if and when it is.
Of course there is the
Of course there is the likelihood that Leahy considers Clinton the most qualified candidate. Just because he didn’t mention qualifications I think the implied intent is pretty obvious. He didn’t make the statement that he would vote for “whichever candidate gets the most pledge delegates” because of backlash. It has always been the practice that super delegates will change their pledged vote if another candidate wins the most pledged delegates. En masse. For party unity. Because it is then the obvious will of the people. The super delegates are not representing their respective states or state’s vote at the convention, they are representing the party.
I was being honest with Chris. It is a fact that Leahy is not going to lose the primary and it was a fact that I was not going to post anything on facebook about her candidacy. You said you replied no-no to equal things out. So I guess honesty and equality are, in fact, separate in this case.
As for how voters vote and how super delegates vote, you are comparing apples and oranges. A super delegate has a different role within the party and different responsibilities than a poll voter.