Isn’t this something? Debra Bartoshevich, a pledged Clinton from Racine, Wisconsin, is defecting to John McCain come November. What does this tell you? From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton’s defeat.
She’s not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama. And she’s not entirely alone in saying she’ll vote this fall for Republican John McCain instead. But what makes her unusual is that she holds these views as an elected delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer.
“I’m sure people are going to be upset with me. I don’t want to lose my national delegate status,” says Bartoshevich, a 41-year-old emergency room nurse who is a convention delegate, pledged to Clinton, from Waterford in Racine County.
Joe Wineke, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, reacted with disbelief when first told Friday afternoon that one of his state party delegates is now a McCain supporter.
“Not a delegate? To the national convention?” asked Wineke, who was getting ready for the start of the state party convention Friday in Stevens Point.
“We have a Clinton national (convention) delegate who says she’s voting for John McCain?” Wineke repeated, for clarification. “I’ve never heard of such a thing.”
Well, Joe Wineke there’s never been such an unqualified candidate to be nominated by a major US political party. Perhaps that should be your disbelief because it is certainly mine. Kudos to Debra Bartoshevich. She sounds like quite the PUMA.