Former assemblyman says Obama campaign ticket allotment a 'slap in the face' to California Democrats

GLENDALE, Calif. - A former state Assemblyman and California Democratic Party delegate to next week's Democratic Party Convention in Denver complained Tuesday about a shortage of tickets to see presumptive nominee Barack Obama give his acceptance speech at Invesco Field on the last night of the convention.

Dario Frommer, a member of the California Assembly from 2000 to 2006 (serving as majority leader from 2004 to 2006) said in this note to The California Majority Report blog that he's unhappy with the 300 tickets the Obama campaign has allotted for the California delegation and that the act is a "slap in the face" to California Democrats who pushed Obama rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to victory during the state's February primary.

Frommer said that when the campaign earlier this year announced that the acceptance speech was being moved to the 75,000-seat stadium where the NFL's Denver Broncos play, everyone thought the big Golden State delegation would be accommodated.

Frommer says that theory has gone kaput: 

"... But California with 551 delegates and 1500 traveling credentialed attendees and their families got just 300 tickets for the Invesco event -- the same allocation as Missouri with 88 delegates. California Democratic Party leaders have tried to no avail to get the Obama camp to release more passes. The Obama camp in turn, is directing California convention goers to contact the CDP. Some party activists view the paltry allocation of party tickets as a slap in the face to California which voted overwhelmingly for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the February primary election and where Obama holds a commanding lead over John Mc Cain."