Well as you might have guessed, I was at the protest in DC today as the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) met to decide what to do with the votes my family all cast back in Michigan, and those in Florida. We turned up to make our voices heard in the hopes that the RBC would do the right thing and NOT punish the people for what their state party leaders – and those of the respective state...
Timing is everything… Isn’t it. How curious that just a short time before the DNC Rules Committee made their final decision, the Obama campaign announced that the Obama’s were leaving the Trinity Church. Now, it could be just a coincidence that Obama decided to make this announcement tonight, but sensing an outcoming from the Rules Committee would dominate the news, one way or another, the Obama camp sure managed to play this one to the hilt. Senator Barack Obama...
I’m still shaking my head in wonderment over the deal forged at the DNC’s Rules Committee Meeting today. In a nutshell, as Marc Ambinder notes, “Clinton nets 24 delegates out of the day.” Read Ambinder’s take on the closing moments of the meeting. Needless to say there are some unhappy campers all the way around. Clinton campaign manager weighs in here with a statement on the decision. The Clinton campaign is reserving “the right to challenge this decision before...
No matter what you think of the delegate rulings today, one thing is clear. By seating the delegates in any fashion, the RBC legitimized the popular vote tallies from FL and MI. This means Hillary can legitimately claim a net of over 600,000 votes today. No news source should report total popular vote numbers that don’t include the tallies from FL and MI. Were FL and MI voters unfairly punished in the way their delegate allocation impacts the nomination?...
The discussion over seating the delegates for Michigan and Florida at the DNC Rules Committee meeting is raging on today. Carl Levin (above), Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Ron Gettelfinger and Debbie Dingell weigh in on “why Michigan Democrats must be seated” in an OP/ED in the Detroit News today: Sphere: Related Content
I know our readers are all focused on the DNC Rules Committee Meeting today, but I wanted to highlight another important issue in the news today… California Senator Barbara Boxer gave the Democratic Radio Address today and she spoke about the urgent need for the U.S. to act on global warming before it’s too late. The Senate is scheduled to begin debating the bi-partisan legislation on Monday. You can listen to Boxer’s Radio Address here. The text of the radio address, as delivered, is...
I’ve been watching this meeting and I have reached at least one conclusion. Somehow, and I can’t understand how, Barack Obama has managed once again to stack the room with his supporters. Since there were only 500 seats available and they were allocated in seconds after being offered, I don’t understand how Obama accomplished the task. Obama has managed this ‘room stacking’ throughout his campaign. It’s pretty obvious that the room has more Obama supporters than Hillary Clinton. I...
I never thought that I would see the day that the Democratic Party would even think of reducing the power of the vote of Democrats in two states. I thought one man, one vote was a basic Democratic principle. If you are not watching CNN or MSNBC’s live coverage it’s fact filled. You can watch the presenters and the following questions. It is disheartening at the same time. How did we come to this point where voters have to...
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