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.