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Superdelegates backing different candidates still BFFs

By Jessica Wehrman | Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 03:52 PM

When Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones got a text message from her old friend, Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin, in Washington, D.C. this week for the annual Dayton Development Coalition fly-in, even different allegiances in the Democratic presidential race couldn’t keep the two old buddies apart.

Jones, D-Cleveland, is a leading supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., for president. McLin, also a Democrat, backs Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

No matter. When McLin sent Jones a text asking her to stop by and say hi to the coalition, Jones hightailed it across Capitol Hill to say hello.

“Our friendship goes beyond all that,” Jones said, dismissing the idea that the current fracture in the Democratic party would strain a friendship that goes back years.

McLin, meanwhile, insisted Jones’ allegiance to Clinton is something to admire, not disagree with. She admires Jones’ tenacity in backing her candidate.

“If I was in a fight, I’d want her around to have my back,” McLin said. “I know her word is good.”

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