The Washington Post is reporting tonight that a Maryland pledged delegate, Jack Johnson, has switched from being a pledged delegate for Sen Clinton to one supporting Sen Obama. I'm sure this will be intersting news for the morning news cycle.
The link is provided below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Here is the money quote from the article:
Prince George's County Executive Jack B. Johnson, a Democratic convention delegate pledged to support Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, said yesterday that he thinks Sen. Barack Obama has "in a real sense" won the Democratic nomination and that he now plans to support Obama at the August convention.
Johnson, who endorsed Clinton nine days before Maryland's February primary, said he will urge Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, who co-chair Clinton's Maryland campaign, to bring all of her delegates to Obama's camp for the sake of party unity.
"I cannot in good conscience go to the convention and not support Barack," Johnson said in an interview. "She ran a great campaign, but she fell short of the line."
It is only fitting that Senator Clinton is the one to lose pledged delegate support given that she has made it known for sometime that she viewed them as legitimate targets for recruiting to switch sides