Rep. Gary Ackerman - Clinton
Rep. Michael A. Arcuri - Clinton
Rep. Tim Bishop - Clinton
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke - Clinton
Rep. Joseph Crowley - Clinton
Rep. Eliot Engel - Clinton
Rep. Kirsten E. Gillibrand - Clinton
Rep. John J. Hall - Clinton
Rep. Brian Higgins - Clinton
Rep. Maurice Hinchey - Clinton
Rep. Steve Israel - Clinton
Rep. Nita Lowey - Clinton
Rep. Carolyn Maloney - Clinton
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy - Clinton
Rep. Michael McNulty - Clinton
Rep. Gregory Meeks - Clinton
Rep. Jerrold Nadler - Clinton
Rep. Charles Rangel - Clinton
Rep. Jose Serrano - Clinton
Rep. Louise Slaughter - Clinton
Rep. Edolphus Towns - Clinton
Rep. Nydia Velazquez - Clinton
Rep. Anthony Weiner - Clinton
Democratic Governor:
Gov. David Paterson
U.S. Senators:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Sen. Charles E. Schumer - Clinton
Distinguished Party Leader Leadership Positions:
Bill Clinton (Former President)
George Mitchell (Former Senate Majority Leader)
Katie Couric: In the meantime, they are campaigning hard for their
particular candidate. Have the candidates themselves called you?
Mitchell: No, nether candidate has called me, but I have gotten calls from representatives on both sides.
Couric: Pretty enthusiastic and assertive calls?
Mitchell: No, I think they were very cordial, logical. They made persuasive cases for their candidate. They applied different standards depending upon the circumstances that they’re in. Each one uses the argument best calculated to lead to support for their candidate. I’ve had a lot of attempts at persuasion. I cast several thousands of votes in the Senate and on every one of them I had people saying 'Yes,' 'No,' 'Yes,' 'No.' So there’s nothing new about this.
Couric: Do you consider yourself a Mainer or a New Yorker now?
Mitchell: It’s an interesting question. When the superdelegate process
first gained attention, Sen. Obama won the Maine caucuses. And so I got quite a number of letters saying that since he won the Maine caucuses, you are obligated to vote for him. Then the Democratic National Committee informed me that because I live in New York, I’ll be a superdelegate from New York. So now I’ve got a bunch of letters making the opposite argument from the Obama camp and the Clinton camp, assuming the argument that Obama camp had previously made. So as I said, the argument depends on where you are and what happened in your state or congressional district.
Couric: But you are a superdelegate from New York?
Mitchell: That’s what I am informed, although the director of the Maine party called me and said they want me to be a superdelegate from Maine! But I don’t know if that’s possible because I am a resident of New York at this time. My kids go to school here.
- "George Mitchell On Hillary's Experience: Katie Couric Interviews Former Senator," CBS News, 3/10/08
Democratic National Committee Members:
Vivian Cook - Clinton
Herman D. Farrell Jr. - Clinton
Emily Giske - Clinton
Judith H. Hope - Clinton
Reginald LaFayette, NY Democratic Party Vice Chair - Clinton
Maria Luna - Clinton
Dennis Mehiel - Clinton
June O’Neil - Clinton
Roberto Ramirez - Clinton
Richard Schaffer - Clinton
Sheldon Silver - Clinton
Irene Stein - Clinton (Endorsed 6/2/08)
Sylvia Tokasz - Clinton
Robert Zimmerman - Clinton
DNC Members-at-Large:
Ralph Dawson
David Paterson - Clinton
Marianne C. Spraggins - Obama
Randi Weingarten - Clinton
Add-On Delegates:
Andrew Cuomo - Clinton
Tom DiNapoli - Clinton
Virginia Fields - Clinton
Carmen Arroyo - Clinton
State's Total Unpledged Delegate Votes: 50
Primary Results: Clinton 57%, Obama 40%
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