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Completion of the selection of the Massachusetts Democratic National Convention Delegation

May 16, 2008 By agoldstein

The Massachusetts Democratic Party is excited to announce that we have completed the election of our delegation to the Democratic National Convention, and that Governor Deval Patrick and Senate President Therese Murray will lead the delegates to Denver as co-chairs of the delegation.

” We are tremendously proud to have two of our finest Democrats, Governor Patrick and Senate President Murray, as co-chairs of what is truly a representative and exceptional delegation.” Said Party Chairman John Walsh. ” Our delegates hail from diverse backgrounds and every corner of the state. They bring out the best in Massachusetts Democrats and will serve us well at the convention in Denver.”

“It is an honor to be chosen to chair this delegation with Senate President Murray” said Governor Deval Patrick. “I’m proud to join other proud Massachusetts Democrats who share a vision for change in Washington.”

” I am honored to be elected as co-chair of this delegation with Governor Patrick,” said Senate President Therese Murray. “This will be a historic election and I am proud to stand with my fellow democratic activists to nominate the next President of the United States.”

At a meeting of the Massachusetts Democratic State Committee at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103’s Freeport Hall, the committee elected 12 Pledged Party Leaders and Elected Officials,  2 unpledged add-ons, 20 at large delegates, and 6 at large alternates.

Party Leaders and Elected Officials:

Pledged to Senator Hillary Clinton

• Andrea Cabral, Sheriff of Suffolk County

• Joseph DeNucci, State Auditor

• Salvatore DiMasi, Speaker of the House of Representatives

• William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth

• Joan Menard, State Senator

• Thomas Menino, Mayor of Boston

• Therese Murray, Senate President

Pledged to Senator Barack Obama

• David Paul Linsky, State Representative

• Linda Dorcena Forry, State Representative

• Dianne Wilkerson, State Senator

• Robert Haynes, President AFL-CIO

• Philip Johnston, Former Chair MDP

Unpledged Add-ons:

• Martha Coakley, Attorney General

• Arthur Powell, Democratic State Committee

At Large Delegates and Alternates:

Senator Hillary Clinton At Large

• Carol Anne Aloisi

• Patricia Armstrong

• Katherine Chang

• Deborah Goldberg

• State Representative Lida Harkins

• Kathleen Healy

• Mary O’Brien

• Lois Pines

• State Senator Karen Spilka

• Lynda Tocci

• State Representative Alice Wolf

• State Representative Harold Naughton Jr.

• George Barnoski, alternate

• Cathy Dwyer, alternate

• Lucy Rivera, alternate

Senator Barack Obama At Large

• Thomas Barbera

• State Representative Willie Mae Allen

• Cathaleen Ashton

• Hannah Banks

• Ania Camargo

• Sarah Compton

• Christina Wu

• Christina Yoon

• Sara Aviel, alternate

• Leon Brathwaite, alternate

• Mushtaque Mirza, alternate

Also, the following individuals were appointed by the campaigns for Senator Clinton and Senator Obama to the three standing committees for the convention: Credentials, Platform, and Rules.



Credentials:


Rebecca “DeeDee” Edmondson, Cambridge

State Representative Marie St. Fleur, Boston

State Representative Daniel Bosley, North Adams

Rev. Miniard Culpepper, Dorchester

Platform:

Paul Giorgio, Worcester

Joseph Kaplan, Mansfield

Ann Roosevelt, Cambridge

Miriam Vogel, Brookline

Rules:

Bob Bower, Marlboro

Maria Buonaugurio, Medford

Alice Jelin-Isenberg, Boston

Paul Pezzella, Boston

Pages:

Kathleen Manning Hall, Malden

Eric Turner, Newton

Sue Thomson, Malden

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  1. borisevicius617 says

    May 16, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    No wonder this state is turning to shit….

  2. bluesuede says

    May 16, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    The establishment politicians line up behind Clinton (see list above)as a result, the state Democratic Party was only able to come up with Sen. Wilkerson to pledge for Obama?
    Come on!
    Change we can believe in?
    Not if that change comes from felon Wilkerson.  This is so sad.  The state party ought to be working to remove Wilkerson and her very compromised ethics from public service, not provide her with additional credentials.  Of course Massachusetts will vote for whomever the Democrats select, so why play footsie with felons.  This is an opportunity to clean up our own house.

    • peabody says

      May 16, 2008 at 11:25 pm

      If Brack becomes president, he will likely appoint Delegate Diane Wilkerson to an ambassadorshp.  Then you will get you wifh that she is out of the state senate.

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      p>Oh, Deval will be U.S. attorney general and there will be new curtains on Beacon Hill.  GMC leasing can transfer the Cadillac lease to D.C.

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      p>When Barack is in the Oval Office there will be lots of movement at the State House.

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      p>

  3. heartlanddem says

    May 16, 2008 at 8:29 pm

    I have to take issue with the statement about change and status quo.  Wilkerson = change?  T. Murray = status quo?  

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    p>That grossly exagerates Wilkerson’s positives, of all the Obamacans in Massachusetts…..why?

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    p>Diminishing the first female Senate President, who is not only smart but an unbelievable work horse is bad form.  From what I can see the Senate President is the leader and torch bearer for women’s issues in the state and I kid you not, asserting women’s issues is NOT the status quo.

    • bob-neer says

      May 16, 2008 at 11:03 pm

      I personally agree with your assessment of women’s issues, and the earlier comments about Wilkerson. My point in the promotion comment, however, wasn’t so much about the individuals as their titles: the Clintonites are a list of the Powers in the Massachusetts Democratic Party establishment. The Obamacans are outsiders, relatively speaking: not one of their PLEOs has a current position of power in the legislature, for example. That was the point I was trying to make.

      • howardjp says

        May 17, 2008 at 10:37 am

        The three top leaders in the Massachusetts Democratic Party, our Governor and two US Senators are all Obama, but have superdelegate status and did not need to be elected by the DSC.

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        p>It seems strange to think of it now, since Bill Clinton is our only Democratic President since 1980, but he was elected as a Washington “outsider”, that, the early travails of his Administration, which led, in part, to the loss of Democratic control of the Congress (although that might have been a historical inevitability, given demographic changes, etc), and the impeachment process have created a dynamic where the “Washington” wing of the Democratic Party has always held them suspect.  And hence, I believe, some of the bandwagon superdelegate shifts, despite the conventional wisdom that superdelegates should have been all hers from the get go.

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        p>The Clintons have always been stronger in the hinterlands, among governors (who are superdelegates), mayors (most of whom are not), and other state and local electeds.  Hillary, for example, has been a regular speaker at US Conference of Mayors meetings for years and several of her legislative initiatives have focused on their issues such as getting public safety funds to localities, rather than federal and state bureaucracies.  Senator Obama, by contrast, has never appeared there, to my knowledge (they are trying to get him to speak to them at their June annual meeting).

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        p>So this “cake” that is the Democratic Party has at least three layers, the Washington “establishment”, the state/local electeds/party folk (who are also more apt to remember the Clinton days, the invites to the White House, etc), and the “grassroots”, who lean towards Obama.  There are exceptions to these generalizations, of course, but thems my views.

      • theopensociety says

        May 18, 2008 at 9:17 am

        in part, because she has the experience that Barack Obama does not have, i.e., she knows how Washington, D.C., operates having been through the gauntlet of having everything thrown at her and coming out unscathed.  She also knows the people in public office in around the coutry that can help get this done.  That is important; it is not a negative.    

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        p>This whole “change” argument for why Obama should be president is quite frankly ridiculous.  First of all, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both represent change, and everytime a male commentator, in particular, ignores that fact by only referring to Barack Obama as the candidate for change it just confirms the rampant sexism that has been epidemic this past year.  Second, it is incredibly ignorant to actually think that someone who has had no or little experience with Washington, D.C., politics (or in local politics) is going to do a good job as President, at least for the first couple of years.  Just look what happened to Jimmy Carter during his whole term and Bill Clinton during his first year in office, and both of them had a Democratic Congress while they fumpered around trying to figure out how to govern.  It is time that voters stop acting like Pavlov’s dogs everytime they hear the words, “Washington outsider” and “change” and start thinking with their heads about what those words mean exactly.            

        • howardjp says

          May 18, 2008 at 11:14 am

          But the campaign was too top down, especially in the early days, and that, in part, led to the problems in caucus states and smaller states that generally do not go Democrat.  That, plus overwhelming support from African American voters, particularly in the South, but also critically in Missouri, one of his few “swing state” wins, has give him that small edge at present.

          • howardjp says

            May 18, 2008 at 11:14 am

  4. amberpaw says

    May 16, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Your post was complete and informative.  I had not realized that there were also committee assignments.  The credentials committee could be a VERY interesting assignment, what with “Florida and Michigan” as problems.

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    p>I really appreciated that you listed everyone with such clarity.

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    p>Every single person on those lists worked hard to get chosen – and has solid skills to offer.

  5. christopher says

    May 17, 2008 at 7:08 am

    First, could we get a breakdown as to which campaigns appointed which members of the standing committees?

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    p>Second, how is Robert Haynes a “Party Leader/Elected Official”?  Being President of AFL-CIO does not appear to qualify as either one.

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    p>Third, why are there legislators among the at-large delegates?  I thought the whole point of giving PLEOs their own category was to make room for the “commoners” on the at-large slates.

    • howardjp says

      May 17, 2008 at 1:18 pm

      IMO, are in a tough spot, if you run in a district caucus, you could win, and annoy some grassroots workers, or you could lose, and be embarrassed. (this is one reason why superdelegates were created, so that congresspersons, etc, wouldn’t be in that spot).

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      p>Getting picked as a PLEO depends on the amount of “traffic” there is for those slots, the Clinton folks had a lot more prominent electeds headed that way than the Obama folks, as has been noted, so they probably had more reason for “overflow”, though one might debate specifics.

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      p>I would love to see some limitations, either by rule or limitation, on how many times people can go as delegates if they are not major electeds.  I served as a delegate in 1992, and that’s fine for me.  I can always say that I was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.  We should constantly be looking to give new people a chance to participate, and if you look at the two Boston districts, almost everyone from both campaigns is a first timer.  That’s good.

    • kate says

      May 18, 2008 at 9:56 pm

      I’ve had a busy weekend and just saw this question.  Here’s the breakdown to the best of my recollection.

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      p>Credentials:
      Rebecca “DeeDee” Edmondson, Cambridge Clinton
      State Representative Marie St. Fleur, Boston Clinton
      State Representative Daniel Bosley, North Adams Clinton
      Rev. Miniard Culpepper, Dorchester Obama

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      p>Platform:
      Paul Giorgio, Worcester  Obama
      Joseph Kaplan, Mansfield  Clinton
      Ann Roosevelt, Cambridge Clinton
      Miriam Vogel, Brookline Obama

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      p>Rules:
      Bob Bower, Marlboro Obama
      Maria Buonaugurio, Medford Clinton
      Alice Jelin-Isenberg, Boston Obama
      Paul Pezzella, Boston Clinton

      <

      p>Pages:
      Kathleen Manning Hall, Malden Obama
      Eric Turner, Newton Chairman
      Sue Thomson, Malden Clinton

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