"Texas Jokes End Today"
http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/30/15757/2729/63/477945Following is the gist, but do read the entire well-written and eye opening blog entry.
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"I'm just back -- literally, JUST back -- from Texas' 23rd Senatorial District's Democratic convention. I left my house at 6:15 a.m. I walked in at 12:30 this morning"
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"after countless hours of phonebanking and organizing for Obama, an hourlong early voting process, a four-hour caucus process, and 18 hours of county convention, I've decided that I'm no longer willing to put up with anti-Texas jabs from Kossites, slurs against my patriotism from Republicans, and just about anything else from Clinton supporters"
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"The Clinton camp had announced that they were targeting the 23rd district for credentials challenges and, by god, that's what they did.
<snip and aside: AP reported the Clinton challenge strategy in
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gYJaQiRyrP6rD0dGdWZKNbT3-S5gD8VNBQCG0>In the end, the Hillary camp did successfully win challenges on 22 delegates. Out of a total of 2,650. When the announcement came, we calculated that the 10-hour delay of the start of our convention averaged roughly a successful challenge only every 30 minutes.
So we stayed. Surprise, Hillary! Not a single delegate OR ALTERNATE left early from my precinct, which meant that the delegation not continuing on to state spent 12 hours making the Texas delegate count official.
So, take that, HRC! Your sniper fire was unsuccessful.
Dad, I'm putting you on notice. You choose to question my patriotism again because I oppose Iraq, you'll rue the day.
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