But Huffman said she intended to remain firmly behind Clinton. "I could change my mind, but I wouldn't change my mind until Hillary changes her mind," Huffman said. "When I get in with someone, I stay till the end."
Neither of the Obama superdelegates at the convention -- Mary Ellen Early, an information systems specialist from Sherman Oaks, and Alicia Wang, an ESL instructor from San Francisco -- said they would consider switching sides unless Obama specifically released them.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Tuesday, May 06, 2008 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 2 inches; 74 words Type of Material: Correction
Presidential campaign: An article in Monday's Section A on Democratic superdelegates stated that neither of the Obama superdelegates at the convention, Mary Ellen Early and Alicia Wang, said they would consider switching sides unless Obama specifically released them. The Obama superdelegates who said this were Early and Alexandra Gallardo-Rooker; Alicia Wang backs Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Also, it was the California Democratic Council Convention at which the superdelegates spoke, not the California Democratic Convention.
Steven Ybarra, a Sacramento lawyer, and Robert Rankin, a retired Carson steelworker, were the only two uncommitted superdelegates at Saturday's gathering.
Rankin said he would stay uncommitted until the last Democratic vote was counted.
"Eight states are left, millions of voters -- I really believe that their voices need to be heard," he said.
Ybarra, though, said he might remain uncommitted through the convention and not vote for either candidate. Chairman of the voting rights committee of the national Democratic Party's Hispanic Caucus, he is angry that neither the party nor the two candidates have put together plans and a budget for recruiting and retaining Latino voters -- particularly Mexican Americans.
Ybarra said he believed the Democrats would have won the last two presidential elections if the party and the candidates had made similar outreach efforts to Latinos as they did to African Americans.
"I'm not about to take California, as a delegate, into another voting cycle without a commitment by the DNC, and by the candidate, about what they are going to do about the Mexican American voter across the United States," Ybarra said. "Otherwise, we're going to lose."
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