Democratic Party

Mary BoergersSays Clinton’s Name Must Be Put In Nomination At Convention

Former house delegate and state Sen. Mary Boergers (D), a pledged delegate to Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), told PolitickerMD.com today that she has not committed to voting for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in the November election, saying she first wants to see what "action's (Obama) takes to unify the party."

Boergers, who represented the people of Montgomery County in the House of Delegates from 1982 to 1990 and in the Senate from 1991 to 1994, also said she would vote for Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in August.

"I'm a pledged Hillary delegate," Boergers said. "That's what I was elected to do."

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Last week, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Mechanicsville) addressed reporters and discussed a variety of issues, including his view on the role that superdelegates should play in selecting the Democratic presidential nominee. Stephanie Lundberg, a spokesperson for the congressman, referred to these remarks when contacted by PolitickerMD.com.

“The superdelegates were created, in my view, to bring their judgment, their experience and their commitment to success in the general election and to bring that judgment to bear on how best we can accomplish the most success, and I think that's what the superdelegates will do,” Hoyer said.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) leads Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) by roughly 150 pledged delegates in the race for the nomination. Obama defeated his rival by 24 points in yesterday’s Mississippi primary.

Neither candidate is expected to achieve the necessary 2,025 delegates, but Clinton cannot mathematically overtake Obama in the pledged delegate lead, so she will have to rely on the superdelegates to overturn Obama’s pledged delegate support.