HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

85

TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

urging hawaii's superdelegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention to reflect the approximate ratio of each Presidential candidate's share of votes at the Democratic Party of Hawaii's Presidential Preference Poll on February 19, 2008.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, "superdelegate" is an informal term used to describe certain delegates to the Democratic National Convention; and

 

     WHEREAS, the term is used to describe an unpledged party leader and unpledged elected official delegates; and

 

     WHEREAS, superdelegates may support any presidential candidate, including one who has withdrawn from the race, and are not restricted to the presidential candidate chosen by the voters in their party's state primary caucus; and

 

     WHEREAS, this process was established in the 1980s as a mechanism to accord active elected officials a greater role in the Democratic Party's annual national convention; and

 

     WHEREAS, at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, superdelegates will comprise approximately twenty per cent of the total delegates; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii has nine superdelegates out of a total of twenty‑nine national delegates; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii's remaining national delegates will be pledged to a presidential candidate based on the approximate ratio of each presidential candidate's share of the votes at the Democratic Party of Hawaii's Presidential Preference Poll on February 19, 2008; and

 

     WHEREAS, the nominating process at the 2008 Democratic National Convention should be a democratic one that reflects the will of the people; and

 

     WHEREAS, Hawaii's superdelegates should similarly reflect the approximate ratio of each presidential candidate's share of votes at the Democratic Party of Hawaii's Presidential Preference Poll on February 19, 2008; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-fourth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2008, the Senate concurring, that Hawaii's superdelegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention are urged to reflect the approximate ratio of each presidential candidate's share of votes at the Democratic Party of Hawaii's Presidential Preference Poll on February 19, 2008; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Chair of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, who in turn, is requested to transmit a copy to each of the superdelegates of the Democratic Party of Hawaii.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title: 

2008 Democratic National Convention; Superdelegates