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LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS ELECT REMAINDER OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTION

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LOUISIANA DEMOCRATS ELECT REMAINDER OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTION

BATON ROUGE – The Democratic State Central Committee of the Louisiana Democratic Party has elected the remainder of its delegates who will attend the Democratic National Convention Aug. 25-28 in Denver.

The DSCC met Saturday, May 3 to elect the remaining delegates. The Louisiana Democratic Delegation consists of 67 delegates who will cast their votes at the convention in efforts to elect a nominee for the 2008 presidential race. Louisiana’s slate of Super Delegates has recently increased by one member since Rep. Don Cazayoux has been elected to Congress. The other Super Delegates are: Sen. Mary Landrieu, Congressman Bill Jefferson, Congressman Charlie Melancon, LDP Chair Chris Whittington, LDP 2^nd Vice Chair Elsie Burkhalter, Ben Jeffers, Buddy Leach, Patsy Arceneaux and Renee Gill Pratt.

A complete list of delegates will be later posted on the Party website at http://www.lademo.org/.

The delegates elected Saturday were:

UNPLEDGED ADD-ON DELEGATE

C. Ray Nagin

PARTY LEADERSHIP AND ELECTED OFFICIALS

7 TO BE SELECTED

3 CLINTON – 4 OBAMA

CLINTON:

R. Michael McHale – Lake Charles

Arthur A. Morrell – New Orleans

Lexi Thompson – Lafayette

OBAMA:

John D. Bernhardt – Lafayette

James A. Gray II – New Orleans

Charmaine L. Marchand – New Orleans

Cynthia Hedge Morrell – New Orleans

AT LARGE DELEGATES: 12 TO BE ELECTED; 5 FOR CLINTON, 7 FOR OBAMA

CLINTON  AT-LARGE DELEGATES:

Edward J. Deano - Mandeville

Stephen G. Handwerk - Lafayette

Nathaniel H. LaCour – New Orleans

Nita Steele - Shreveport

Mary L. Wardsworth - Alexandria

Carolyn Brown Spiller – Hammond (Alternate)

OBAMA AT-LARGE DELEGATES:

Diana E. Bajoie – New Orleans

Wesley T. Bishop – New Orleans

Sean Michael Bruno – New Orleans

James Cox – Lake Charles

Sibal Holt - Alexandria

Ashley N. Scott - Shreveport

Jennifer Vidrine – Ville Platte

Randal L. Gaines – LaPlace (Alternate)

Kenneth P. Garrett, Sr. – New Orleans (Alternate)

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