Freedom Dogs

This makes sense to me: if you run for a delegate position, you are supporting that party and it's endorsed candidate. A Wisconsin delegate may be stripped of her DNC delegate position this week for openly supporting John McCain. From the Journal Times:

Members of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party will vote Friday on the delegate status of Debra Bartoshevich, a Democratic National Convention delegate from Waterford who has publicly supported Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain of Arizona.

Bartoshevich is expected to lose her delegate credentials, said Marilyn Nemeth, a representative from Mount Pleasant who serves on the committee that will cast the deciding votes.

The party’s Administrative Committee will hold a conference call Friday to discuss a formal challenge against Bartoshevich. She will be given time to tell her side of the story and committee members will vote to maintain or remove her delegate status.

"If they decide to strip me of my status, they decide to do something un-American," Bartoshevich said. "It’s not democracy. It doesn’t stand for unity, which the party wants."

Whether she likes it or not, Bartoshevich should respect party rules (when it comes to candidate support. What's interesting is that this delegate went public with her support for another party's candidate. One blog is keeping tabs on delegates who are switching their endorsement to Hillary Clinton - 15 so far in July. What's also interesting is the growing lack of unity in the Democratic party, as the presumptive candidate nicknamed "Obamessiah" enjoys  unprecedented media hype mania.