By NEIL H. SIMON, Media General News Service
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If Ohio Democrats are tired of all the campaign ads they’re seeing before the state’s March 4 primary, then they can be glad they are not one of the state’s superdelegates being persistently pestered by both campaigns – and now the news media.
“In a nutshell, I need a press secretary,” said Enid Goubeaux of Greenville. “Obviously, I’ve been in touch with the candidates. I did have a phone call from President Clinton.”
“It was a pleasant conversation. I told him I thought the process needs to go on a bit so we know what the voters want. He said, ‘That’s fine.’ We shot the breeze, and that was that.”
Yep, Goubeaux turned down a former president, for whose campaign she was a county co-chair back in 1992.
“It’s better to not get too far ahead of the voters,” she said, reflecting a philosophy currently popular among Ohio’s 18 named superdelegates. Only two have committed --Gov. Ted Strickland and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones both endorsed Hillary Clinton.
At the Statehouse, Democratic minority leader Joyce Beatty has been balancing constituent calls and campaign calls.
“The courting has been constant,” said Beatty spokesman Phil Saken.
As an African-American woman, she feels like she can’t lose, Saken said.
“In a nutshell, I need a press secretary,” said Enid Goubeaux of Greenville. “Obviously, I’ve been in touch with the candidates. I did have a phone call from President Clinton.”
“It was a pleasant conversation. I told him I thought the process needs to go on a bit so we know what the voters want. He said, ‘That’s fine.’ We shot the breeze, and that was that.”
Yep, Goubeaux turned down a former president, for whose campaign she was a county co-chair back in 1992.
“It’s better to not get too far ahead of the voters,” she said, reflecting a philosophy currently popular among Ohio’s 18 named superdelegates. Only two have committed --Gov. Ted Strickland and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones both endorsed Hillary Clinton.
At the Statehouse, Democratic minority leader Joyce Beatty has been balancing constituent calls and campaign calls.
“The courting has been constant,” said Beatty spokesman Phil Saken.
As an African-American woman, she feels like she can’t lose, Saken said.