Who are the superdelegates in the Democratic party? Party elites and significant politicians of past and present, as well as lobbyists. What?

A recent Google search to help me understand the issue of why these superdelegates are so important revealed what was, for me, entirely new information. Google led me to dailykos.com where I found, and I quote: “the list (of superdelegates) contains lobbyists for Keystone XL, private prison group GEO, American Council of Life Insurers, News Corp. (Fox news), Enron, Countrywide, US Telecom Assoc., Coca-Cola, CitiGroup and others.”

So these corporations are not only influencing our elected leaders in Congress, influencing our local and statewide elections and funding oppositions to peoples’ initiatives, they are also directly choosing the President of the United States.

Is this what we want? Before deciding whom to vote for in the Democratic caucus on March 26, we should consider this issue and think about which candidate these lobbyists probably are supporting.

There are 712 superdelegates, and of this total, the lobbyists might be a small number, but their presence adds fuel to the claim that one candidate is heavily funded and influenced by corporate special interests. And that candidate’s initials are not B.S.

— Sheila Brown