County Democratic caucus set at Senior Center Tuesday

The county Democratic Presidential and Delegate Selection Caucus will be held at the Mountain Home Senior Center, 1000 N. 3rd East St., on Tuesday, Feb. 5, Mike Crawford, Chairman of the Elmore County Democrats, has announced.

Registration begins at 6 p.m., and the caucus will begin at 7 p.m. sharp. The doors will be closed at that point. Anyone who will be eligible to vote in the general election this November and who declares that they are a Democrat is invited to attend and participate.

The caucus will elect four delegates to the Idaho State Democratic Convention, which will be held June 12-14, in Boise.

After hearing some brief speeches from candidate supporters, those attending will caucus once, and then any groups that have not achieved enough supporters to achieve a delegate will be allowed to switch to some other group. Once the second caucus is held, the final delegates to the state convention will be selected.

At the state convention, 18 district and at-large delegates will be selected, along with five "superdelegates" representing top Democratic officials who will go to the national convention (and one selected at the convention).

In Idaho, the superdelegates are IDP Chair Keith Roark, IDP Vice-Chair Jeanne Buell, National Committeeman Grant Burgoyne and National Committeewoman Gail Bray. The fifth superdelegate will be selected in June at the state convention, and is selected by all the state delegates to that convention.

For more information about the candidates and the caucus process, visit the state party website at: http://www.idaho-democrats.org.

Persons interested in volunteering to help out at the caucus, serving as a delegate to the state convention, or running for office this fall, or if theyneed help to get to the caucus, should contact Crawford at 573-5965 or e-mail him at: michael@ratlifflawoffice.com.