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Garry Mauro is Going to Denver to Vote For Hillary

by: campskunk

Tue Aug 05, 2008 at 21:30:57 PM EDT


(h/t to riverdaughter over at the confluence for the story and the Quicktime version of this video)

Garry Mauro is a Texan through and through, and a Hillary supporter until the last dog dies. He was Hillary's Texas chairman. Hell, he was McGovern's state chairman, when he no doubt worked with a young couple named Clinton who came down to help out. In the face of skeptical Fox talking head questioning, he says he is going to Denver to vote for Hillary. Show him the roll call vote, and THEN talk to him about supporting the nominee.

Garry is a pro. He deftly sidesteps the talking head's attempt to assign him the task of defending Hillary's chances at the nomination, and stays on message - that he wants a roll call vote - despite interruptions, bait, and other ineffectual efforts to deter him. THIS is the way to handle the natterers. Garry gets his points across- every convention since 1884 has had a roll call vote, the roll call vote picks the nominee and no other process, I WANT A ROLL CALL VOTE, GODDAMMIT. Good job. Garry!

Check out the video.

campskunk :: Garry Mauro is Going to Denver to Vote For Hillary
...I'm voting for Hillary Clinton. I went through a long process with a lot of the other Hillary Clinton Democrats. The Democratic National Convention is called the nominating convention. Since 1884, we have had a roll call vote for every presidential election since then. I expect to vote for Hillary Clinton for president, and then, I expect at the right time, when Barack Obama has the votes to be the nominee, I expect to vote for a motion to nominate him by acclimation....

...I am suggesting that we have a process, and as much as television pundits and political experts want to decide who the nominee is, the national convention decides who the nominee is, and they decide it when they vote.

The talking head tried to get Garry agree with him that Hillary's supporters thinking she could win were "delusional" - Garry declined to do so, and continued...

I think we ought to go through the process... if anybody thinks we ought not to put Hillary Clinton's name in nomination and have a roll call vote, they're going to have a problem. That's what we've been doing since 1884.   We have a roll call vote. We think Barack Obama has the votes to win; we are ready to support him, but let's have a roll call vote.
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Garry Mauro is Going to Denver to Vote For Hillary | 27 comments
Awesome News! (0.00 / 0)
I hope he signed the nominating petition!

As for that lame-brain reporter... Pffft!

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He rocks!! (0.00 / 0)
Lame brain indeed!

When is the time that pundits give the principles and the due process a chance, as opposed to reading straight from press releases handed out by campaigns?

There is a clip in the dccumentary "The War Room." George Stephanopoulos gives a tip to be passed to a network (I think it was CBS), and mentions in passing, that you need to do the research for them (ie TV networks) b/c their own research departments are incompetent.

He got it, and then George W Bush used that to his great advantage. So did Obama.  

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Network Newsies Are Lazy (0.00 / 0)
If you don't spoonfeed it to them they just won't get it.

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Link To RiverDaughter's Post on This (0.00 / 0)
Just to give credit where it's due ;o)

http://riverdaughter.wordpress...

She links to us all the time after all!  Great catch folks!

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you're right. i'll put that up top. (0.00 / 0)
i was over there in the comments, saw they needed the video uploaded, and did so. i mistakenly thought it was garychapelhill's diary, though - i think he was the one trying to upload it instead of being the diarist.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
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speaking of pundits, (0.00 / 0)

Did you know that columnist Dana Milbank won't be going on MSNBC's Countdown anymore? Keith Obamaman apparently posted an announcement on DK:

Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, notified us today that after four years appearing with us, he had accepted another television offer.

Is he the guy who coined the presumptuous nominee pun?  Would that  be related to his leaving Keith Obamaman?

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nah, he stole it from the confluence, probably. (0.00 / 0)
he was one of the first journalists to use it in the traditional media, though.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
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I thought (0.00 / 0)
KO had lashed at Milbank, and had banned him from appearing on Countdown.  That would be The Gasbag's way of showing off to his side kicks.  
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Do you know (0.00 / 0)
why he lashed at Milbank?  Was it Milbank's "presumptuous" column?
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yes it was. (0.00 / 0)
cue the faux outrage. somebody said "presumptuous".

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
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This man is my hero. Opening shot. (0.00 / 0)
This is so major. Somebody who takes a stand! Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!!
A few more need to go public like this (0.00 / 0)
do it for unity, delegates. (Is he a superdelegate?)
he must be a regular pledged delegate. (0.00 / 0)
i don't see him on the list of add-on supers or texas supers.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
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He's a pledged (0.00 / 0)
PLEO (party leader/elected official) delegate from Austin.

The buzz has been that he was too conciliatory, but this alone shows that he's a real Democrat.

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Comment from this video thread at RD's (0.00 / 0)
"Gary is a hell of a guy.....A great friend to the late Ann Richards. He was our (Texas) Land Commissioner for 15 years, which is a big deal in Texas......and ran for governor against Bush in '98. He came from a family that did not have much money. He had to work his way through college, and made something of himself, the good old-fashioned way: hard work. This is the type of Texas liberal that supports Hillary......the ones who have no sense of entitlement, but are fairminded, hardworking, caring people."

Comment by Cindy | 2008-08-06 00:30:40

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CBS News: "Will Clinton Fans Back Obama?" (0.00 / 0)
This was the title of a great segment by Jeff Greenfield on tonight's CBS news.
If someone who can embed videos would go over to CBS News:

http://www.cbsnews.com/section...

and then post the video here,  that would be wonderful.   Alice Huffman had some choice words to say.

Maybe the word is getting out?

let's see.... (0.00 / 0)


Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
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Great! Thanks! (0.00 / 0)
Alice Huffman is the best!  
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stay classy, joe trippi. (0.00 / 0)
he's intimating that we weren't supporting hillary as much as voting against obama.

no, joe. i wasn't particularly against obama until he started using voter fraud and other unethical and illegal tactics against my candidate, hillary clinton. at the start of the campaign, i was thinking how nice it was to have so many good candidates. a year later, i can see how i was mistaken.

obama's not a good candidate. good candidates don't race-bait. good candidates don't commit voter fraud. good candidates don't run against universal health care - a core democratic value - by attacking it from the right. good candidates don't muscle people like john lewis into voting against their principles by threatening them.  

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.

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Certain guys for Obama just can't comprehend (0.00 / 0)
why we wouldn't vote for the guy. Unless we're racist. I AM NOT RACIST.
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Katie: and maybe this is why Obama chose Invesco field (0.00 / 0)
for his acceptance speech.

Go Katie. She has earned my respect. She wasn't always perfect but she gets it.

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Interesting how they think (0.00 / 0)
pro-choice women will just vote for Obama. Some of the older women are not going to be held hostage by that anymore and not all of Clinton voters are going to cave into one issue voters. It's more than RvW. Can't they see that? And it's not like Obama is stellar on the issue, or some of his possible running mates. Some of us PC women will just be staying home or voting down ticket only.  
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Riverdaughter is funny about it. (0.00 / 0)
She says that since all Clinton supporter are all depicted as old, menopausal women, they are past the time that they cared about Roe.

She has a point!

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I think the "let the next (0.00 / 0)
generation of women worry about their rights" feeling is growing. It's rather distasteful the way some younger women don't seem to appreciate all the hard work that went into getting them where they are today. Throwing RvW in our faces is pretty much one of the last straws. Let them get out there and protect their own rights. And while they're at it, they can start working on equal pay, etc. Not too bright on their part to dismiss us or tell us to shut up and fall in line because of RvW.
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excellent point (0.00 / 0)

maybe it will help them realize what the silly old feminists did for them.  maybe they'll become feminists themselves, as quaint as that must sound to them.

I wonder if that's what Pelosi's "Message to America's Daughters" is.  Know Your Power, indeed.

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besides (0.00 / 0)

with the Dems incresing their controll in the Senate and Congress, the president will have to make his SC choices carefully.
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god save us! (0.00 / 0)
good lord heaven help us. this si what we get for such a por education system. this pundit on the vid is anidiot. he acts like obama is the nominee-um no dude. saying it doesnt make it so. this dude says oh u wont steal it will you-um it was never to be stolen idiot. mauro did good today. lets hope mor efollow his lead and give the tv heads a dose of reality.
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