Obama picks up 26 El Paso delegates

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El Paso Times
Obama picks up 26 El Paso delegates

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau

AUSTIN -- El Paso supporters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama won their fight Wednesday with El Paso County Democratic Party officials who support his rival presidential candidate, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

A credentials committee of the state party ruled in favor of Obama supporters, who said that El Paso officials did not award the candidate enough delegates from the county convention in March.

"We got what we asked for," said Don Williams, the El Paso Democrat and Obama supporter who challenged the delegate allocation. "We never should have been here in the first place."

At the state party convention, El Paso County will seat 131 delegates for Clinton and 44 delegates for Obama. That is 26 more delegates than initially had been allocated to Obama.

:woohoo::kick:

Way to go Don Williams!


Sonia

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1. Spoke to one of the El Paso delegates tonight

Regular schedule phone banking to delegates and alternates from the campaign. And she was so excited they won the challenge. They had made plans to come to the convention anyway, but with the challenge settled more of them get to be voting delegates.

Si se puede!

This one's for Lilly :toast:

:bounce::bounce::bounce:

Sonia