Bill Clinton had gone to work Thursday trying to win over superdelegate Sam Farr, the Monterey Bay Area congressman who has yet to declare his preference. Farr was leaving Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, where he was meeting with local health officials, when the former president rang his cell phone. "I told him I was holding my ground," Farr said Sunday. "He said he understood." Several in the Democratic Party have suggested that superdelegates like Farr should side with the candidate who won their district "to avoid a possible backlash if the popular vote is overturned. But Farr said he's seen strong support for both candidates locally and didn't feel obligated to one. "I think I can use the statistics either way." Congressman Sam Farr of California served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia in the 1960's.
Bill Clinton had gone to work trying to win over superdelegate Sam Farr, the Monterey Bay Area congressman who has yet to declare his preference
Clinton makes a case for wife's run
Kurtis Alexander - Sentinel Staff Writer
Article Launched: 03/31/2008 01:34:04 AM PDT
SAN JOSE -- Former President Bill Clinton brought the campaign for his wife's presidency to the California Democratic Convention on Sunday, where he urged fellow party members not to rush to judgment in the tight nomination contest.
"Chill out," he told a crowd of some 2,000 Democrats gathered at the San Jose Convention Center. "There is somehow the suggestion that because we are having a vigorous debate about who would be the best president, we are going to weaken this party."
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Bill Clinton had gone to work Thursday trying to win over superdelegate Sam Farr, the Monterey Bay Area congressman who has yet to declare his preference.
Farr was leaving Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, where he was meeting with local health officials, when the former president rang his cell phone.
"I told him I was holding my ground," Farr said Sunday. "He said he understood."
Several in the Democratic Party have suggested that superdelegates like Farr should side with the candidate who won their district "to avoid a possible backlash if the popular vote is overturned. But Farr said he's seen strong support for both candidates locally and didn't feel obligated to one. "I think I can use the statistics either way."
Hillary Clinton won the vote in Farr's district.
Farr is one of about 20 of the state's 65 named superdelegates who remain uncommitted.
There are about 800 superdelegates nationwide. The superdelegates are party leaders and elected officials who can side with either candidate. Since neither Obama nor Hillary Clinton is likely to secure the 2,024 delegates needed for the nomination through state-by-state voting, which ends June 3, the superdelegates have come into play.
