Dear Senator Jeff Merkley,

As the only Oregon superdelegate to endorse Bernie Sanders, we appreciate you deviating from establishment politics to support your constituents. We have voted for Bernie in vast number this primary, and we appreciate you representing Oregonian voices.  

We need your support. We need you and Oregon, as well as the Democratic Party of Oregon, representatives and officials to commit to act on our current superdelegate system and propose, and support, an amendment to end it. This is a matter of correcting systemic injustice and promoting voter's rights. This system allows delegates to be bought and paid for, and regardless of a superdelegate's role in representing Oregon voters, they will vote for whichever candidate suits their own will or wallet.

Please follow Maine, and several other states, and put an end the the way our current Oregon superdelegate system works. Maine passed Russel's amendment at their state convention, which requires superdelegates be allocated proportionately with the vote. This amendment also petitions the state’s Democratic National Committee members to eliminate the superdelegate system at the national level, and we are asking our officials also support these efforts.

Superdelegates should be awarded proportionately with the public vote, or they should not exist at all! Make this system one that represents its people!

Sincerely,

Oregonians and other supporters