Denver-bound Dem delegates decided with coin toss, pizza and a 30-sec book reading

California’s 241 Democratic National Convention delegates were selected at local party caucuses Sunday, with both the Clinton and Obama folk in one swath of Los Angeles presenting a healthy political postcard.

U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman’s 30th congressional district cuts across a wealth of wealthy suburban zip codes from the Westside through the San Fernando Valley, a bedrock blue district. The Clinton caucus there was held in the Beverly Hills Public Library’s second-floor auditorium; 302 Democrats signed in but 305 ballots were cast, which a caucus organizer said likely will prompt a state party inquiry.

The 302 voters who turned in those 305 ballots were greeted earlier by delegate candidates offering brownies and pizza slices plus bottled water branded with the name of Ron Galperin. He and candidate Glen Williams tied for third place; Williams won on a coin toss, having called heads.

The district’s two Clinton female delegate slots were won by Susan DeLaurentis (no relation to Italian movie producer Dino De Laurentiis) and familiar TV legal face/attorney Gloria Allred, who greeted voters as they filed into the library.

“I’m committed to Hillary and she needs the superdelegates,” Allred said. “Many of them know me and I would work to persuade them to vote for Hillary.”

About 2.5 miles further southwest into Waxman’s district is the Rancho Park Recreation Center, where 651 Barackistas cast 641 ballots in one of the two indoor basketball courts. The Beverly Hills library’s Clinton crowd seemed a little more grounded, upscale and professional than the often younger Obama counterparts assembled here. One would-be Barack delegate was a high school senior.

An Obama caucus push by several Dennis Kucinich acolytes failed to secure them any delegate spots. With Clinton getting 134 California delegates and Obama getting 107, his three from Waxman district’s all were elected off of one flyer promoting one slate – Shayne Adamski, Bob Vanderet and Victoria Von Szeliski. Rather than Kucinich people coming late to Obama-palooza, these three are Barack soldiers; Von Szeliski and Adamski started volunteering last spring and Vanderet was a precinct captain, his party stripes dating back to being a ‘68 Chicago convention delegate.

The winning trio sat through 30-second speeches from less well-organized candidates. One man used his half-minute simply to recite part of the Obama tome, “Dreams from My Father,” while a much cooler candidate from Santa Monica declared, “This 30 seconds makes speed dating look leisurely.”