I may be hours from Brooklyn but I’m still on top of the Brooklyn news. This story arrived in my in-box and I had to post. Luckily, the hotel where I am staying has an Internet connection (for a fee). OSFO is taking a break from the pool so I had a few minutes to blog this.
Seems that Yveltte Clarke has announced that she plans to use her superdelegate vote for Hillary Clinton at the convention despite the face that Barack Obama was a big winner in her district.
A Prospect Lefferts Garden blog had a post that I thought might be of
interest to other Brooklyn residents. The congressional representative for
the 11th district (which includes Brownsville, Crown Heights, East Flatbush,
Flatbush, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, and Kensington), Yvette Clarke, is
planning to use her superdelegate vote to back Hillary Clinton at the
convention – despite the fact that Barack Obama won the 11th district by a
higher margin of votes than Clarke herself received when she was elected.
Personal preference aside, it’s irksome to see a superdelegate planning a
vote against the direct will of her constituents.http://www.hawthornestreet.com/2008/02/yvette-clarke-n.html
Hi everyone: Here’s a link to an online petition calling for Clarke to represent the will of CD 11 and switch support to Obama.
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?judobama
Weird thing is that there’s no evidence of looking inward to see if, Hey, I’m doing the right thing. I think many will be highly irritated that their wishes (which are very strong) are being ignored.
Brooklyn Ron at brooklynron.com
One has to wonder what pressure she’s feeling internally. No hints of inner turmoil that I sense so far.
–Brooklyn Ron at http:brooklynron.com
You have to worry that she’s taking instructions again, from Anthony Weiner or Bill DeBlasio. And she needs to be on the gravy train.
Hmm, Brenda. Clarke’s costituency is not monolithic. Many of them actually voted for other candidates and delegate slates in the ’08 presidential primary. Let’s hope they all do remember. We’ll know soon enough. Aside from her Presidential preferences, she’s actually been a mostly useless US Rep – that may have more to do with her future success (or not).
Hm. I hope her constituents will be “gutsy” enough to remember how well she reflected their expressed preference when Ms. Clarke next comes up for re-election.
That’s gutsy on her part. I thought this election was about electing candidates that think and take tough positions. Good for her.