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May. 16, 2008
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Ex-president to represent wife in Reno

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Former president expected to represent his wife, Hillary, at the state's Democratic convention

Former President Clinton is scheduled to speak at Saturday's state Democratic convention in Reno on behalf of his wife's campaign, sources said Thursday.

The campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were each asked to send a representative to the convention, which is the final stage of the process that began with the Jan. 19 caucuses.

At the convention, many of Nevada's delegates to the national Democratic convention, scheduled to be held in Denver in August, will be elected.

Based on the results of the caucuses, Obama stands to receive 13 of the 25 elected delegates, and Clinton 12, even though she got more votes on Jan. 19, because Obama was stronger in rural and Northern Nevada.


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    • However, the caucus results don't dictate the presidential preference voting at the convention by the more than 3,000 delegates elected in recent months at county conventions around the state.

    The keynote speaker is scheduled to be Jon Soltz, the chairman of VoteVets.org, a political group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans.

    Obama's campaign hasn't announced whom it is sending to speak for the candidate.



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    Miriam wrote on May 16, 2008 03:49 PM: Where's the substance in Barack. Well outside of rising from a working class background to be president of the Harvard Law Review & then going back to Chicago to help working people organize to defend their rights, going to the state legislature & getting them an earned income tax credit and health care for their children, going to the US Senate & getting the leaders to post their doings where the people could see oh & opposing the Iraq war which has killed so many of our best young people, not much.
    Where's the substance in Hillary? Outside of being a suburban factory owner's daughter, a partner in a law firm that defends corporation, being on the board of Walmart, voting for the Iraq war while her husband took millions from some of the same people who gave money to the 9/11 criminals, not much.