Did the Texas Democratic Party convention just end? I need info...

[derby378]

I heard we're sending 38 Obama delegates and 29 Clinton delegates to Denver in August. Is this true?

Also, what about resolutions and platform? Anyone happen to take notes during this time? There's a couple of resolutions on the floor I'd like more info on.

[babylonsister]

1. I'd like to know what happened, too. Our local news said a fire

started in Austin at the place where the convention happened, so it might run late.

[rainbow4321]

2. From the Austin Statesman blog

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/index.html


http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2008/06/07/obama_wins_texas_finally.html

Unless Democratic officials say otherwise later Saturday, it looks like Sen. Barack Obama will take 99 Texas delegates to the August Democratic National Convention in Denver with Sen. Hillary Clinton landing 94 delegates based on voting on primary day and at battles starting with the boisterous primary-night caucuses. It took this long to say (that’s three months since the March 4 primary) so for sure because the total depended on which Democratic delegates showed up for this weekend’s state convention.

So ink in the headline for sure: Obama Wins Texas.

That result was solidified this morning as Kirk Watson, chairman of the convention, announced the results of the presidential preferences recorded by delegates signing in for the state convention on Friday. Specifically, 7,239 delegates signed in; 4,144 for Obama (57 percent) and 3,088 (43 percent) for Clinton.

The 99-94 Obama edge doesn’t take in how 35 superdelegates from Texas will vote. Our pre-convention count of them had it 14 for Obama, 14 for Clinton and 4 undeclared, with three spots to be filled after party Chairman Boyd Richie nominates them; he hadn’t done so as of 11 a.m. Saturday.

Again: Obama Wins Texas.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2008/06/07/richie_not_saying_but_we_have.html

Boyd Richie, the re-elected chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, wouldn’t tell me who he nominated to fill three slots as super-delegates to the August national convention in Denver.

But Garry Mauro, who coordinated Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Texas campaign, said the newbie super-delegates are penciled in to be former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, who helped steer Obama’s campaign in Texas; Becky Moeller, president of the Texas AFL-CIO (and a supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton); and Molly Beth Malcolm of Texarkana, a past chairwoman of the state party and Obama supporter. Kirk later confirmed the list.

The once-was-a-Democratic-horse-race punchline: Of the 35 Texas super-delegates, 15 have supported Clinton for president, 16 have been for Obama, and four remain unpledged, as far as I know.