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First Time Salisbury Delegates Attend Democratic National Convention

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There will be 123 delegates from Maryland at this week’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte North Carolina.

And some locals will get their first taste of such festivities.

Mayor Jim Ireton, Council member Laura Mitchell and 2008 Obama volunteer Chuck Cook will be on hand as first time delegates.

Ireton told the Salisbury Daily Times that he is planning to attend the rural caucus and catch up with National Education Association supporters.

Meanwhile, Council member Mitchell told the paper that her personal history that includes homelessness makes her attendance at a presidential nominating convention extraordinary.

She adds her life story is why the nation needs a second Obama term.

As for Cook, who now works for the Maryland Democratic Party, he says the president already has his base and must now show voters that he can find a middle ground to get things down.

High profile Marylanders at the convention include Governor Martin O’Malley…who chairs the Democratic Governors Association and Senator Barbara Mikulski. 

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.