Post by Logan on May 2, 2016 4:49:31 GMT -6
Thousands of California Democrats vie to be presidential delegates
For the past two weeks, 26-year-old Nelson Leiva walked door to door in Antelope and other Sacramento neighborhoods. He was campaigning for Bernie Sanders – and himself.
An administrative worker for the state, Leiva was among nearly 100 Californians from the Sacramento-based 6th Congressional District who vied Sunday to attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in late July. The clean-cut Sacramento native asked registered voters to attend a caucus and elect him as one of six district delegates for the convention.
Delegate caucuses often go unnoticed, and in a city such as Sacramento, many of the candidates are political junkies, or work in or around the Capitol. But the rise of Sanders and Donald Trump in contentious presidential primary races has attracted new faces and more scrutiny to the delegate system in both parties.
“I’ve never done anything like this before, as far as being this involved,” Leiva said before the caucus. “A big movement has started for Bernie Sanders, and I’ve been swept up in it.”
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article75064812.html
For the past two weeks, 26-year-old Nelson Leiva walked door to door in Antelope and other Sacramento neighborhoods. He was campaigning for Bernie Sanders – and himself.
An administrative worker for the state, Leiva was among nearly 100 Californians from the Sacramento-based 6th Congressional District who vied Sunday to attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in late July. The clean-cut Sacramento native asked registered voters to attend a caucus and elect him as one of six district delegates for the convention.
Delegate caucuses often go unnoticed, and in a city such as Sacramento, many of the candidates are political junkies, or work in or around the Capitol. But the rise of Sanders and Donald Trump in contentious presidential primary races has attracted new faces and more scrutiny to the delegate system in both parties.
“I’ve never done anything like this before, as far as being this involved,” Leiva said before the caucus. “A big movement has started for Bernie Sanders, and I’ve been swept up in it.”
Read more here: www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article75064812.html