Clinton Camp Family Heads Full Steam Into DNC Delegate Meeting!
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Clinton Camp Heads Full Steam Into DNC Delegate Meeting
Friday, May 30, 2008
Hillary Clinton and her supporters are making what may be their last
stand, at a Democratic Party meeting this weekend in Washington, D.C.
When a rules panel of the Democratic National Committee takes up the
issue of disputed Michigan and Florida primaries Saturday morning,
Clinton’s campaign will continue to argue that the delegations from
both states should be seated in full.
The Florida-Michigan decision is practically her only remaining chance
of securing a tidal wave of delegates. As of Friday, the New York
senator was more than 200 delegates behind Barack Obama, and in the
three primaries left to go she cannot win enough to make up that
difference.
“We are hopeful and confident that after having a full-blown
discussion … all the delegates will be seated, 100 percent, all of
them will have a full vote,” Clinton adviser Harold Ickes said in a
conference call with reporters Friday.
Clinton won both states, but their delegations were stripped for
holding early primaries in violation of party rules. The options
before the Rules and Bylaws Committee on Saturday are to restore the
delegates in full, restore part of the delegation or uphold the
original penalty.
Obama has said he’s willing to have some delegates seated, and party
leaders have expressed hope that DNC Chairman Howard Dean can broker a
compromise to ensure party unity come June.
Clinton’s campaign, though, is encouraging supporters to head to the
meeting Saturday to protest.
“These people are coming. They’re going to speak. They’re going to
peacefully say, ‘We support what’s going on in this room.’ … We want
them to be part of the entire picture of the Democratic Party,”
Clinton adviser Tina Flournoy said Friday, objecting to anybody who
tries to describe the scene as “chaos” or a “circus.”
In a letter to the committee Friday, the campaign’s general counsel
said the possibility of no delegates being seated is “an unacceptable
outcome.”
The letter said that the campaign wants “all” delegates restored and
disputed a DNC lawyer’s assessment that the committee is unable to
restore more than half of the delegates.
“This conclusion is incorrect,” the letter said, arguing that the
committee can “forgive violations” when “positive steps” have been
taken to come into compliance.
The vexing question is how the delegates would be allocated even if
they were counted.
Neither candidate campaigned in the states, and Obama was not even on
the ballot in Michigan. Many Michigan voters who favored Obama
registered their support by voting “uncommitted.”
A Florida proposal suggests reducing the state’s delegation by half,
while Michigan Democrats have proposed splitting the delegates, giving
Clinton 69 and Obama 59.
But the Clinton campaign says since not all “uncommitted” voters in
Michigan wanted Obama, it would be arbitrary to execute such a plan.
DNC member Joel Ferguson, a Clinton supporter, also said that plan is
“fatally flawed.”
“If you’re going to solve breaking rules, you can’t do it by having a
new set of rules,” he told FOX News, adding that Obama shouldn’t get
extra points for taking his name off the Michigan ballot.
Committee Co-Chairman James Roosevelt said it’s possible the issue
could be appealed to the Credentials Committee if there’s no agreement
this weekend.
But party officials already have said they will step in to prevent
this fight from going to the August convention.
The Clinton campaign in its letter even stated that the rules
committee should resolve the issue “promptly” and discussed the
possibility of seating the delegations from both states with
half-votes. That would be a compromise from the Clinton campaign.
Though she is pushing for a complete reversal of the original DNC
decision on Michigan and Florida, that alone would not save her ailing
campaign.
Even if all the two states’ 313 pledged delegates were allocated, with
no votes for Obama from Michigan, Clinton would get 178 to Obama’s 67,
closing the gap by 111 votes, according to The Associated Press.
Obama, with 1,984 delegates, is just 42 shy of the 2,026 it takes to
clinch the nomination. Clinton is at 1,782.
The Obama campaign acknowledges that Saturday’s decision may increase
the number of delegates it takes to win, but says the race will still
be over soon.
Montana and South Dakota hold the final Democratic primaries in the
country Tuesday, after Puerto Rico holds its contest Sunday.
“As long as by Tuesday Senator Obama’s campaign ends with more pledged
delegates — and there’s no mathematical way that does not happen —
he’s clearly gonna be the nominee by almost every measure,” said Chris
Kofinis, former spokesman for Democratic candidate John Edwards. “And
if that happens you’re gonna see a wave of superdelegates go his way.”
Obama is an inferior candidate.
Dems need Hillary to win in November
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