New York Obama Supporters in Texas Caucus!

So here's the story: A group of 10 New York Obama Supporters were flown to Texas on March 4th to rally for support and attend the Caucus. Now why would New York residents attend a Texas Caucus?

This all smells a little fishy to me. So as I am watching CNN i see a report that there are allegations that an Obama supporter from NY took charge of a TX Caucus, took the caucus papers that are used to report the result and decided to take only the Obama papers and leave the Hillary ones!!!!

Now this I feel is blatant sabotage from the Obama Campaign. The reason I bring this up is because I attended a Texas Caucus, I am from TX, and I met a woman that was from NY who supported Obama, she also too took hold of the Voter registration Log!

What do you think about this situation?

I find the Texas Two-Step primary bizarre in itself. But Democrats always leave a back door in Texas so that the dead can vote.

At this point I have stopped listening to anything pointing a finger at Obama. I would never vote for Obama were I a U.S. voter, but it is Hillary Clinton who has been up to the monstrous lot of dirty tricks, not Obama.

Frankly it is hard to top the accusing of Obama for calling the Canadian government to tell them his NAFTA statements in Ohio were just political posturing when Obama did NO such thing. Obama and his campaign never called the Canadian government.

It was Hillary and her own campaign who called the Canadian government to say that she was just posturing in Ohio!!!

We'll see of Obama has the guts to fight her tactics. And as far as the Texas Caucus described by the OP, how do you know these people weren't residents of Texas with the legal right to participate? And if they weren't legal residents why didn't you scream, yell, and bang pots (to paraphrase Molly Ivins) until the problem was resolved?

I know they weren't from texas because she told me she wasn't and that she flew with 10 others here for the campaign.....i made sure she had nothing to say of the vote...

but that was only at my precinct, for the others i could not have stopped them because i wasn't there...

i did make sure though to notify the democatic headquarters of the situation

BTW where did u hear that Hillary's campaign made those calls?, i watch CNN and i have not heard this theory

Originally posted by Goradd
BTW where did u hear that Hillary's campaign made those calls?

Mr. Brodie, apparently seeking to play down the potential impact on Canada, told the reporters the threat was not serious, and that someone from Ms. Clinton's campaign had even contacted Canadian diplomats to tell them not to worry because the NAFTA threats were mostly political posturing.
PM's top aide set off storm with Obama NAFTA leak

FYI: As I understand it, the Globe and Mail is the 'paper of record' in Canada, so this should be a reliable source. Also, Ian Brodie is Prime Minister Harper's chief of staff.

FYI: As I understand it, the Globe and Mail is the 'paper of record' in Canada, so this should be a reliable source. Also, Ian Brodie is Prime Minister Harper's chief of staff.

it still seems a little sketchy to me that someone from the clinton campaign "called" especially since there was almost no media about it in the US

unless there is bias.....

Originally posted by Goradd
it still seems a little sketchy to me that someone from the clinton campaign "called" especially since there was almost no media about it in the US

unless there is bias.....

Think about it like this: her husband passed Nafta, so the Clintons have a past with Canada, broadly (and they tend to operate in tandem, so that's not a stretch). Obama does not. So, after such heavy anti-Nafta rhetoric in Ohio, which candidate do you think would feel compelled to call Canada and say 'just playing'?

I was confused when the story initially broke because I couldn't understand Obama's motivation for such a politically risky move. Now, after the votes of Ohio have been counted and the momentum thereof has given Hillary the excuse she needed to fight another day, I'm hearing from foreign media that the whole thing was a lie. You ask if our media is biased? I think so. Only one MSM outlet that I know of is covering this: MSNBC (Clinton's NAFTA-gate?).

Its funny you should mention this. I am from dallas texas. The caucus I was held at an elementary school and two different precints went there to caucus. There were 327 people all together. It was very unorganized so I found one of the election officials walking around and asked her what I need to do and all that. After I did what I needed to do I went outside for a smoke before they decided on who the delegates were going to be. That same lady was out there and I started to talk to her some more. Come to find out that she wasnt from my precint. She wasnt even from Texas. She was from Los Angeles. In her own words she said "I just decided to fly down here and help out. She said she didnt even have friends or family in the area. I went back inside and raised hell about them having an election official who isnt from our precint let alone Texas. Everyone there got upset when they found this out too. Unfortunatley nothing came of it. She remained an election official.


She was an Obama supporter by the way.

On a side note, Hillary won in my precint by three votes giving hillary 11 delagates and Obama 10.In the other precint Obama won but I dont know by how much or how many delagates went to each.

[edit on 11-3-2008 by gimme_some_truth]