Delegate who said she'd vote for McCain in fight

By JAMES A. CARLSON, Associated Press Writer

A Democratic National Convention delegate pledged to Hillary Rodham Clinton says she hopes to fight off an attempt by Wisconsin Democrats to take away her credentials because of her past statement that she would vote for John McCain if Clinton wasn't the nominee.

"Keeping national delegate status is very important to me," Debra Bartoshevich said Thursday. "I believe that Hillary is the better candidate of all of them."

She declined to comment on her previous comment, quoted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, that she would vote for the Republican McCain in November if the Democratic Party nominated Barack Obama for president.

Wisconsin Democratic party chairman Joe Wineke said Friday he's confident Bartoshevich won't be at the national convention. Wineke said it's clear Bartoshevich violated party rules by failing to honor a pledge of intent to vote for the party's presidential ticket in the fall.

Wineke added that Bartoshevich would not have been chosen to be a delegate if people had known beforehand that she would vote for McCain if Obama were nominated.

Bartoshevich told the newspaper she felt Clinton was being treated unfairly and she questioned Obama's experience. She also said she had signed up with "Citizens for McCain," encouraged by her sister, who has served in Iraq and backs the Republican.

That report came out just as Wisconsin Democrats were gathering for their state convention in Stevens Point on June 13, and the convention quickly approved a resolution to challenge Bartoshevich's status as a delegate to the Democratic convention in Denver in August.

"It's extremely important that we send a message that Democrats in the state of Wisconsin will never support somebody who supports John McCain for president," Wineke said at the time, to cheers from the hundreds of party activists.

Bartoshevich, 41, a registered nurse and mother of two from Waterford, said she got a copy Wednesday of the formal credentials challenge filed by the state party.

Among other things, it said she violated party rules by expressing support for the presumptive nominee of the opposing party and failing to honor a pledge of intent to vote for the party's presidential ticket in the fall.
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she wants to remain a democrat? what the hell for?

she obviously isnt a true democrat*, a true democrat deals with these kind of ups and downs and rolls with the punches, like Terry McAuliffe did the other night, he was on board, etc...

how many republicans do you think are sitting this one out because their candidate didnt make it?



*harsh words, I know, but that is how i feel, I mean for christ fucking sake, when I think of the damage mccain can do this nation with 2 or 3 more SC appointments, I have not one second to fuck with anyone who says they will vote for mccain, they are my enemy pure and simple...my political enemy



doesnt mean I hate them, my brother and father will vote for that putz, I wont love them any less, but they are an enemy to the American way at this time and that is that

Ya hey der, don't expect a lot of brainiacs to come out Wisconsin. They are about the dumbest people on earth, and I know. They are like sheep, just follow the first one with the bell around it's neck into the slaughterhouse, and it's all good. I've lived there, they are unbelievably dumb and ignorant, of course they only get 3 channels on TV, so we have to forgive them. Ah for Chry I, ya hay der. The only smart one is Feingold.

Smart or dumb. I don't care what her excuse is. She is no Democrat. If she is allowed to keep her credentials as a delegate, the stupid ones are the ones who allowed it. Like the rest of us, who have allowed Bushco to undo the Constitution. Happy Fourth of July! Welcome back to the Empire!

Oh, now you watch yer smart mouth der mister too-big-fer-his-britches. You jest have yerself a bottle o' pop, sitchyerself down and be quiet tills somebody asks you what you tink, hey?

Hokey, dokey.

By the by, the Bushwa der would spend his every summer back in da dairyland if he could, da place of his birth, or maybe in da Minnesota, der. But da palne tickets, der, they're kinda spendy.

Kick her out on her butt I say. She's a repub and most likely always has been.

Apparently her "feelings" have been hurt and she wants to get even by making a statement and compromising what should be the important issues. Yeah go vote for Gramps...he's the CHAMPION for women's issues - NOT

I'm so sick and tired hearing about these whiney people who are "switching" to Gramps camp because "their" choice was not picked to run. Welcome to the real world where the person you wanted may not get the nomination or win the election.

Heck even the current dictator was chosen by a court, not the voters.