and Conyers was on the bandwagon!!

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Topic subject There was an organized CAMPAIGN to get people to vote "Uncommitted" against Hillary in Michigan
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4083121, There was an organized CAMPAIGN to get people to vote "Uncommitted" against Hillary in Michigan
Posted by ruggerson on Wed Jan-16-08 08:38 AM

So, the bullshit that somehow this is a remarkable spontaneous occurrence is just that: bullshit.

People did not "spontaneously" come out and vote against Hillary Clinton. There was a major media push to get them to come out and vote against her.

This is just one of the number of organized efforts to stir up the black community and get them to register a vote against Hillary by voting "uncommitted."

You will note that this particular group used raw racial politics to do so.


“If the Clintons don’t get at least 60 percent of the vote, I think it would be a total rejection of her candidacy,” said Sam Riddle, an adviser to Detroit city councilwoman Monica Conyers.

Conyers and her husband John, a U.S. congressman – both backing Obama -- taped radio ads urging voters for “Uncommitted,” which has become a consensus alternative for supporters of Obama and John Edwards.

Riddle said a weeklong back-and-forth between the Obama and Clinton camps over the legacy of the civil-rights movement and Obama’s own drug use will galvanize black voters in the urban centers of eastern Michigan to deliver a no-confidence vote to Clinton.

“That type of stuff has no place in the campaign but it shows the Clinton desperation,” Riddle said. “They’re demeaning Obama and folks in Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Pontiac don’t like it one bit.”

“’Uncommitted’ does not the get-out-the-vote apparatus that the Clintons have,” Riddle said. “We did talk radio, hit the churches -- much like you would with a candidate, except the candidate is ‘Uncommitted.’”


http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/michigan_clinto.html