Dear Representative Giffords,
I am a longtime Arizona Resident, an active member of the Democratic party, and a supporter of yours.
I have volunteered for the Democratic Party, and with my family, I contributed to your campaign and the campaign of Raul Grijalva, as well as to Harry Mitchell, Jim Pedersen, and Ellen Simon's campaign in AZ-01. And I hope that this year the state party can win Rick Renzi's seat for a Democrat. I think Obama shows alot of promise for helping us to accomplish that goal - he polls much stronger than Hillary in AZ against McCain! Can you imagine if John McCain lost AZ! or even scraped through with a bare win!
I notice that you are still sitting on the fence about endorsing Obama as a superdelegate.
I have been watching the slow trainwreck which is the ongoing Democratic primary,in which Hillary will apparently do anything to obtain the nomination - flatter McCain, pander to rascist elements, and even cozy up to Rush Limbaugh fans.
I noted that Bill Clinton interviewed with a right-wing talk show host in Texas on the day of that primary, and then allowed that show to be rebroadcast on the Limbaugh show an hour later, in a desperate attempt to get Rush's Democrat-hating audience to crossover and vote for Clinton.
Well apparently it worked, and it is still working. With the nomination sewed up, exit polls showed Republicans are crossing over in record numbers (13% of the Dem primary turnout in MS), and voting for Hillary, even though when asked, they say they don't like her ideas and don't trust her or think she is honest.
I cannot believe that the Clintons would stoop so low. I used to like them, in fact up until a month ago I was undecided and I saw clearly Hillary's strengths. Now I only see a dissapointed person who seems willing to abandon the good of our party to win the nomination for herself, even if her chance of winning in the fall is not so good.
She has been behind now in delegates for a long time and the math is worse and worse against her. She continues to slowly fall farther back in the delegate race,losing ground since her "big win" of 9 delegates in Ohio.
I can't understand why she is staying in unless she is really crazy, and can't believe she could lose this thing, since she was the favorite coming in, and has so many big money backers.
Obama would in my view, bring a big infusion of new energy, volunteers and enthusiasm and contributions to the Arizona Democratic party. I think he can really help to eventually turn this state blue. In Tucson especially, with the University of Arizona, we definitely have a chance of increasing the ranks of active Democrats, with all the enthusiastic young Obama supporters. We desperately need to increase our young voter turnout in Arizona, it is terrrible - I think he could help.
You and other superdelegates can make a stand with Janet Napolitano to stop this painful process of Hillary's meltdown, and all the negative campaigning, which makes Democrats the laughingstock of the country. If a sizable chunk of superdelegates came out to endorse Obama in the next few weeks, and privately discussed with Hillary their reasons for doing so, and urged her to make a graceful exit, she could still save some face. She could stop pretending that 90% of the uncommited superdelegates are going to go against the will of the democratic voters and hand her the crown. I am so sad to see what her campaign has become, with the racist remarks of Ferraro, and Bill on Limbaugh.
If she continues on, I fear that she will not only lose the nomination, but with the recent bad news to the NY State Democratic party - she might even have problems holding onto her seat.
Please, for the good of the Arizona Democratic Party and for the good of a stronger Democratic majority - and in my mind, frankly for the good of Hillary - please come out and endorse Obama!
Thanks.
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