Nevada: John Hunt

CARSON CITY-With the death of longtime Clark County Democratic Chairman Charlie Waterman today at 79, Clark County Democrats are left remembering a mentor, a leader and a champion of the underdog.

"He was really somebody special," said Clark County Democratic Chairman John Hunt, whose friendship with Waterman stretched back more than twenty years.  "He's always been such a fixture within Nevada and the Democratic Party."

LAS VEGAS-Saturday, elected delegates from the Clark County Democrats' Jan. 19 precinct caucuses will descend on the Thomas and Mack Center at UNLV to cast make-up votes from their unsuccessful Feb. 23 convention. As the date approaches, both remaining Democratic presidential campaigns are working feverishly to turn out their delegates and hopefully improve on their positions heading into the state convention May 17-18.

Since the new county voting plan was announced Mar. 5, the campaigns of both N.Y. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Ill.

In just five weeks the Nevada Democratic Party has twice failed to execute the most essential element of winning electoral politics:  efficient and organized mobilization.  And if the November post-debate Jefferson-Jackson Dinner fiasco at the Paris is thrown-in, we are really talking about 0 and 3; a record that does not instill much confidence in the party faithful moving into a general election that may well define the Democrats’ fate in the Silver State for a generation to come.  

Las Vegas- Shortly after a federal judge ruled that at-large caucus sites could go forward as planned, Clark County Democratic chairman John Hunt and Nevada Democratic chairwoman Jill Derby issued a joint press release declaring that the party is “unified” in their commitment to turn out Nevadans for the Jan. 19 caucus.