Hillary supporter alleges Indiana shenanigans
Tom McDermott , the white mayor of Hammond, Indiana , used his star turn on CNN last night to accuse Rudy Clay , the black mayor of Gary, Indiana, of something that smells "corrupt" in the slow pace of election returns coming out of that urban center in last night's presidential primary. The accusation came just around midnight, central daylight time, when the Indiana race, quite surprisingly, remained too close to call. McDermott is a Hillary Clinton supporter, and Clay, a Barack Obama supporter. Still awaiting transcript; will post tonight. (Your blogstress will be travelling much of the day.) UPDATE: Here's the transcript . Excerpt below. MCDERMOTT: I'm not going to pick on where I'm from. I'm proud to be from Lake County. And there is hanky-panky in politics all across the state of Indiana, all across the United States. I'm not going to dig into Lake County's past. But I can tell you that this is -- it looks improper, what's happenin...