It also wanted officials, who now occupy about half of the legislature's seats, barred from serving as delegates.
In a memo to union presidents on Monday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said he will host a meeting of federation members who are serving as delegates but this will be the extent of his group's involvement at this summer's convention.
Cantor served as delegate prior to Warner's governorship.
The state's three members of the Republican National Committee will also serve as delegates to the convention.
"Why didn't you nominate Rufus Choate?" began a joke told about the old men who'd been rounded up to serve as delegates at a Convention.
Going into the Illinois primary, Mr. Romney had 522 delegates, according to The A.P., which conducts a survey of party leaders who may serve as delegates and calculates the intentions of unpledged delegates based on the popular vote.
While constituting a minority, the relatively upscale wing clearly dominates party policy and provides the majority of the activists who run campaigns, serve as delegates to the convention and have become the core of the party's donor base.
Three thousand chairs that served as delegates' perches when they nominated their candidate and listened to Arnold Schwarzenegger were donated by the New York City Host Committee to the Department for the Aging, which began sending them to centers for the elderly around the city yesterday.
As they prepared to leave their party's convention after three speech-filled nights here, Ms. Riley and the hundreds of grass-roots activists, union members, local government officials, educators and other Democrats who served as delegates acknowledged that the president had fallen short in some areas.
While there are some women and ethnic Pashtuns among the delegations, giving the appearance of broad representation, key Pashtuns remain either allied with the Taliban or fighting it in the south, and the naming of women to serve as delegates seems a grudging nod to Western preferences.
Another two Black women serve as delegates from Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands, respectively.
