Friday, 15 July 2016

Meet 5 Democratic Delegates

Clinton the dog can’t vote, but his owner, Donna West, will do that and more as a Philadelphia-bound Democratic Party delegate hoping to make history at this month’s political convention.

While super delegates are made up of influential members of the party, including government officials, there are thousands of less-famous names who make up the rest of the delegate pool.

Here are five are those who are headed to Philadelphia for the four-day convention starting July 25

Politics can be a dog-eat-dog world for some, but Nevadan Donna West has always connected the two in a positive way.

West, 59, is an active Twitter user who tweeted from the handle “DogLovers4Hillary” throughout this election cycle. But she first came up with the idea during the last presidential election. Right after then-Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was criticized for transporting his family’s pet dog in a crate on their car roof, she created the Twitter account “DogLovers4Obama.”

That later morphed into “DogLovers4Dems” after Obama was elected to the White House and then to Clinton when it became clear she would run, West told ABC. For the full article click here 



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