We continue our special in-depth educational series, Meet Your Superdelegates.  A rare chance to get to know specific superdelegates who will be deciding the Democratic presidential nominee.  We’re focusing on party elders, government officials, senior advisors, and other high profile politicians who feature prominently in television and film.  And we boldly speculate who they will back at the Democratic convention.  Today’s superdelegate profile comes from the breakthrough dramatic movie sensation “The Godfather, Part II.”

Pat Geary is a corrupt Democratic U.S. senator from Nevada who has a rough-languaged encounter with Michael Corleone.  Geary also spends a night with a prostitute in a brothel.  Having suffered from an alcoholic blackout, he awakes in a bed covered in blood next to the woman, who is dead. The dead prostitute’s wrists are handcuffed; her legs spread wide. Geary has no memory of what happened. Tom Hagen arrives on the scene and promises Geary that since the woman has no family, the matter can be safely covered up. It is implied that the Corleones have engineered this situation, perhaps through drugging the senator.  When a U.S. Senate committee is investigating organized crime and subpoenas Michael and others to answer to charges of criminal activity, Geary speaks in defense of Italian-Americans, deploring the stereotyping of them as criminals.  Presumably, Geary’s extensive Senatorial experience and lack of good manners when speaking makes him less inclined to support Barack Obaman — which likely lands him in Hillary Clinton’s camp.

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