CA Superdelegate wants 20 Million for his vote

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/08 ... s-support/

With superdelegates holding the key to the Democratic presidential nomination, one undecided Democratic National Committee member is putting a price on his support.

Steven Ybarra, a California lawyer in Sacramento, says he wants $20 million for his endorsement.

It’s not for him personally, he says, but to register Mexican-American voters in New Mexico, Colorado and Florida.

Do we think he is actually talking about actual American citizens, people who a truly eligible to vote? Is he offering to have a campaign to register people who should not be voting in order to get the Dems a win?

He said his hope is that by adding more than 1 million of those voters to the rosters in those swing states, they could help swing the election to the Democratic nominee in November.

“I keep asking the question to the DNC, ‘Why won’t you earmark money for these voters?’ And their answer is, ‘Oh we can’t do that,’ which is a lie,â€

What a dirtbag sleezeball!

ROFLMAO!!! I LOVE IT!!! He's wants someone the candidates to BUY votes. HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA Oh PLEASE let this hit the MSM!! He's telling Dems that Mexicans will vote for whoever BUYS their vote!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

On the legal front, it IS illegal to trade votes for cash. This man is an elected official? He should be certainly punished for even thinking of doing something like this! Let's not forget violating anti-discrminiation laws, he wants this for MEXICANS only. Who VOTES guys like this into office anyway?

Why should mexicans have to pay to register to vote. It didn't cost me anything.

He should lose his delgate status right now! TALK ABOUT SKUM BAG!
Nice profitable side line our politicians have created for themselves.
Wonder how many others are bought off!
most of them would be my guess,.
They need to do away with the delegate vote now!

I thought it was illegal to buy and sell votes 8O

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He should lose his delgate status right now! TALK ABOUT SKUM BAG!

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Agreed.

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Originally Posted by dragonfire

I thought it was illegal to buy and sell votes 8O

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It is, but hey he probably figures what's another broken law when it comes to Mexicans, no?

The man is a complete and utter moron!

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Steven Ybarra, a California lawyer in Sacramento, says he wants $20 million for his endorsement.

It’s not for him personally, he says, but to register Mexican-American voters in New Mexico, Colorado and Florida.

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Is this not:
1. bribery?
2. discrimination? (register Mexican-Americans, not whites, blacks, asians, etc?
3. apartheid-like government?
4. segregation?
5. racism?

For even suggesting this, shouldn't Steven Ybarra lose his super-delegate vote and his right to vote period?

Politics has been said to be the second oldest profession. I believe it bears a close resemblance to the first.

This was on the MSM, saw it on Fox first. This guy had no problem making the statements he did on national TV.

I believe that the way he stated it all, was the the money would be for a program to be sure all Mexican-Americans were given the chance to register and programs to promote them registering. He stated that they are the most underepresented, and untapped group of voters in this country and could sway the election for the Democrats if they were registered and actually voted (with his pressumption that they would vote Dem).

My first thought was he is a big OBLer and knows that the Democrats in presidency are the key the OBL needs to get their coveted amnesty, this seemed to me was his goal.

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Originally Posted by AE

This was on the MSM, saw it on Fox first. This guy had no problem making the statements he did on national TV.

I believe that the way he stated it all, was the the money would be for a program to be sure all Mexican-Americans were given the chance to register and programs to promote them registering. He stated that they are the most underepresented, and untapped group of voters in this country and could sway the election for the Democrats if they were registered and actually voted (with his pressumption that they would vote Dem).

My first thought was he is a big OBLer and knows that the Democrats in presidency are the key the OBL needs to get their coveted amnesty, this seemed to me was his goal.

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Voter registration drives are run by volunteers, no one is paid to register voters. His asking for the money is highly suspect. Spanish language TV programs already advertise voter registration heavily. There would be NO need to pay anyone that kind of money, unless it's to "influence" people.

Citizens who were former immigrants take voting much more seriously than native born Americans as we had to EARN the right to vote and were not born with that right, so I don't buy his story.

I believe that too, that is what he said though. Maybe he thinks he can buy some votes towards the Democratic party, in order to get the presidency and amnesty?.......

As for taking voting seriously, yes, many Americans, especially the 20 something crowd, do not take it seriously. I have been on my daughters case about it since she was 18, I handed her a voter registration card and said this was my 18th B-day present to her, her right as an adult in America to vote :D !

I think sometimes, I even see older adults not taking their obligation/right to vote seriously enough, and it really bothers me, yet I think, oh so many people complain endlessly about the politicians in office.

Miguelina, I was brought up in a family of 6, and my parents were adament to tell us that we had two obligations in our lives as American, one to obey the laws (even if we did not always agree that law worked the way it was meant to), the other was to vote.

I knew a woman, immgrant from Romania, who was so excited to get to vote for the first time, she was in tears (she grew up in a communist country), this was very touching to me.

Any update on this?