DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale


	DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale

RecordSage

5-8-2008 1:14 PM

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Interesting way to raise some money

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7d3040b3-290d-4a48-9073-f8f8814a8826/4499BFE5-BBBF-4D01-8C27-E08E49E0A46B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html" href="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html" style="font-size: 11px;">cbs13.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><H2>DNC Superdelegate Puts His Vote Up For Sale</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>
<SPAN class="cbstv_attribution"> SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CBS13) ― </SPAN>
In this tight battle for the democratic nomination we've heard a lot about the candidates courting super-delegates.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>But, one superdelegate is courting the candidates. He says he'll sell his vote for a price. A very high price: $20 million.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>Sacramento superdelegate Steven Ybarra says that eight-figure price is peanuts for the presidency.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>When asked whether it was right to offer what is clearly a quid pro quo?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>"Yeah, absolutely. People do it all the time," answered Ybarra.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>But, not like this. Not in public, and not for such big bucks.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>It begs the question. Is he crazy?</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>"Nobody's said I'm crazy," said Ybarra.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>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.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://cbs13.com/politics/Superdelegate.Vote.Ybarra.2.718616.html"><DIV>"And I keep asking the question of the DNC, 'why won't you earmark money for these voters?' And their answer is, 'oh, we can't do that' which is a lie," said Ybarra.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4499BFE5-BBBF-4D01-8C27-E08E49E0A46B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>