Our Next Item Up For Bid, This Superdelegate's Support
With the race for superdelegates in full swing, a Mexican-American California superdelegate has promised to sell his support for some sweet, sweet cash…
He says he'll sell his vote for a price. A very high price: $20 million. Sacramento superdelegate Steven Ybarra says that eight-figure price is peanuts for the presidency.
When asked whether it was right to offer what is clearly a quid pro quo?
"Yeah, absolutely. People do it all the time," answered Ybarra.
This just sickens me. Using his high status in the Democratic Party for his personal gain. That's unheard of. What does Ybarra want the money for anyway? To buy a bunch of sombreros and habanero peppers and naps?
Ybarra wants every cent of the $20 million to go toward registering and educating eligible Mexican-American voters, who he calls the key to the white house.
Oh.
Well, that's kind of, um, honorable. It's kinda not fair the way the article was written; it didn't mention his intentions until midway through and tricked me into thinking he was being greedy.
That thing about the sombreros and the naps and stuff… I don't really think like that. It's just, um… Well, you know.
Still, it seems unlikely that Ybarra will get $20 million dollars out of the candidates, who need to spend that money ads calling each other names and accusing each other of being unAmerican.
Plus, I'm sure they can find ten or twenty superdelegates from below the border who will register and educate eligible Mexican-American voters for $2 million and a mattress to sleep on.
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Guess what-
Steve Ybarra gets his $20 million
by: Brian Leubitz
Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 09:29:24 AM PDT
A couple of months ago, in the heat of the superdelegate struggle, Steve Ybarra made a bold and public request. Basically, he requested a $20 million commitment to voter registration efforts targeted at Latinos. The media ridiculed him as some sort of vote seller. As I wrote back then, the request was in actuality a request for party building. And that's a perfectly good request from a member of the DNC to the presidential candidates
This is a Math question and the ramifications of it all boggle me. Can anyone work out the formula for me? One Super Delegate vote = how many ethnic votes?
It seems we always end up going back to that one night some guy paid to get me drunk and I woke up one day and wondered how he managed to move into the house.
Ybarra hopes that he can get the millions of illegals already here to BECOME eligible voters with the $20 million, and tank Hillary's campaign at the same time. You know she'll be first to get to him…