MAINE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
MAY 30 - JUNE 1, 2008

 

Obama takes Westbrook  25-17

Barach Obama edged Hillary Clinton in caucus voting this last Sunday collecting 25 of Westbrook's 42 delegates to the State convention.The roughly 60 % margin seems to reflect the voting throughout Maine .Democrats in Westbrook and 420 other Maine towns and cities braved inclement weather to determine how the state's 24 delegates will be allotted at the party's national convention in August.

 

More than 400 Dems attended the hectic Westbrook caucus mirroring the record turn out across the state. Both Obama and Hillary Clinton were heavily and enthusiastically represented as caucus voters listened to spokesmen from both camps expound on how their policies and programs will redeem and repair the damage that has been done to the economy and the moral of the American people.

 

State Senator Phil Bartlett  and cable television hostess Jackie Murphy spoke on Clintons behalf stressing that she had the talent and the experience that would be needed to undo the damage that the Bush administration has done to American confidence and the nation's standing in the international community. Westbrook Council President Brendan Rielly argued the Obama promise of change, highlighting the Senator's history as a reformer in his home state of Illinois and his courageous stand against the wisdom of the war in Iraq.

 

Rielly also dedicated his talk to the candidacy of Tom Allen for the U.S. Senate. (Allen's video biography is linked at the top of this page. ) Referring to Susan Collin's Rielly noted that "she is all for Maine values when her votes do not count, but when issues of importance to Mainer's are on the line she inevitably chooses to follow the Republican Right Wing agenda."

 

So the process is underway. Democrats are blessed with two truly exceptional candidates. Both of  whom are determined to change the tragic consequences  that the Bush Decade has wrought on our country. The final outcome of this race will not be decided until much later in this year. This past Sunday the city of Westbrook voiced it's opinion.

 

 

 

 MAINE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
MAY 30 - JUNE 1, 2008

"LEADERSHIP FOR MAINE - CHANGE FOR AMERICA"