California Faultline

Haim Saban, the billionaire television producer of Power Rangers and other properties, supposedly offered to donate $1 million dollars to the Young Democrats of America in the same phone call where he also pushed for two uncommitted superdelegates with the group to endorse Hillary Clinton, according to the Huffington Post.

Saban has denied the claim, while HuffPo claims to have verified the story among no less than four different high ranking members of the YDA. YDA President David Hardt, whom the offer was supposedly made to, has yet to comment on the issue.

Last week, Crystal Strait, a Young Democrats of America member, made national news by announcing her support for Barack Obama as a California superdelegate, effectively tying Obama and Clinton in superdelegate counts.

At last week’s California Democratic Council Convention, two superdelegates who had previously sworn allegiance to Hillary Clinton openly voiced reservations of continued loyalty:

Christopher Stampolis of Santa Clara, a superdelegate who endorsed Clinton after the Iowa caucuses, said that he remained in the New York senator’s camp but that his commitment expired with the end of the primaries.

“When it’s done, all of us, whether we’re committed or not, we’re going to take a look” at the final eight contests, said Stampolis, who until recently worked in external relations for a Bay Area environmental firm. “Our job is to represent the constituents who trusted us to win the White House.”

Garry Shay, a Los Angeles attorney, said that if Clinton remained about 150 pledged delegates behind Obama, the current estimated margin, he would have to “reassess the entirety of the situation.”

“It doesn’t mandate me switching,” he said, “but it does mandate me reconsidering.”

From the LA Times.