claim: says he was the first local official to endorse barack obama
author: ed fitzgerald
evidence_1: oct 3, 2018 ... mcbrine, a first-time candidate, says they had to keep the news of obama's  endorsement under wraps until it was officially announced monday.
evidence_2: oct 4, 2018 ... former president barack obama has endorsed nearly a dozen ... [in an  endorsement],” beto o'rourke said after a town hall at a local high ...
evidence_3: oct 3, 2018 ... as local democrats celebrated endorsements by former president barack obama , the state republican party said the move just draws attention to the extreme left.  ... progressive organizations, local committees and elected officials in endorsing  her. ... "the first vote i ever cast was for obama in 2008.
evidence_4: oct 3, 2018 ... claire mccaskill, d-mo., who was one of obama's most important early  endorsers, and the first significant woman democrat to back obama ...
evidence_5: oct 1, 2018 ... barack obama endorses ben jealous as governor of maryland, which has ...  jealous, a former naacp president who would be the state's first black chief ...  people,” obama said in a statement released by the jealous campaign. ...  important local stories in d.c., va. and md., around 8 a.m. on weekdays.