Posted on June 10th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Marc Ambinder reports today that “multiple Democratic sources” say Hillary Clinton, “in a series of private conversations and conference calls, continues to urge her pledged delegates to vote for Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention.”
Clinton plans a series of calls with superdelegates, interest groups and state delegations over the next few days. (One of [...]
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Posted on May 31st, 2008 by Alegre
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 [...]
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Posted on May 27th, 2008 by Alegre
It’s a simple question for you – the members of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, who’ll be deciding on the future of our party on Saturday.
Folks are talking about the tough decision you’ll have to make in DC on Saturday.
They say you might seat half the delegates from Florida and Michigan, thereby cutting the [...]
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Posted on May 26th, 2008 by Alegre
Nothing anyone says to me will convince me that the fight to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan (my home state) is nothing less than a fight for the voting rights of the 2.3 million people who turned out for their state primaries in January. The voters did not set the dates – and [...]
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Posted on May 21st, 2008 by JoAnne Tybinka Blasko
Resolving the issue of the votes in Michigan and Florida is fast becoming an essential ingredient to winning in November. Enforcing the “rules” as they currently stand could help assure another “inconvenient” loss for the Democrats.
Since the May 31st meeting of the Rules and Bylaws Committee is looming, I urge everyone to write and/or e-mail [...]
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