DNC Officials Vote To Scale Back Role Of 'Superdelegates' In Presidential Nomination
A Democratic National Committee panel has voted to drastically curtail the role 'superdelegates' play in the party's presidential nominating process. The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee voted 27 to 1 to block officeholders, DNC members, and other party dignitaries from casting decisive votes on the first ballot of presidential nominating conventions.
Speaking ahead of the vote, DNC Chair Tom Perez said the shift is part of a broader effort to rebuild trust and heal the wounds of the still-lingering 2016 primary. "No candidate should have an accumulated lead, whether real or perceived, before a first ballot is cast," Perez said.
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Clinton won substantially more pledged delegates than Sanders in primaries and caucuses, but as Sanders' surprisingly strong primary run stretched through the spring, many of his supporters pointed to broad support for Clinton from unpledged delegates as Exhibit A of establishment cronyism.
This frustration reached a boiling point the day before the final set of primaries, when the Associated Press declared Clinton the Democrats' presumptive nominee based on a poll of superdelegates.
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The unity commission was one of several steps Perez has taken to try and heal the bitter wounds of the 2016 primary, which were exasperated by hacked emails showing many DNC officials openly preferred Clinton to Sanders at a time when they were acting publicly as neutral arbiters. The DNC emails were hacked by Russian operatives as part of a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, and were released by Wikileaks on the eve of the 2016 Democratic National Convention.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623913044/dnc-officials-vote-to-scale-bac...
Look at that last paragraph. They’re still lying their asses off. They’re just as dishonest as ever. They can still rig an election. In the end the ‘superdelegates’ didn’t throw the nomination. It was the DNC itself that ensured that Sanders would lose after turning the entire election over to Clinton and her merry band of cheats and liars.
I don’t think this means they’ve cleaned up theit act. It just means they’ll find other ways to rig the system.
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This is a classic case of CYA
To call it by its proper military Acronym.
(Cover Your Ass)
Well, no there's no way that we could be at fault for the rigging this time, because we have RULES in place. It's clearly the fault of this low level staffer who was totally acting on their own initiative and should totally not be taken as representative of the group...
/snark
I do not pretend I know what I do not know.
Haha, Hoho, Heehee
Jokes on them again. The creepy liars are now going to play fair? Doubt it. It's just mayo on a donkey poo samich, swallow it if you can. Like a big mac, made for the masses.
Mainstream media like NPR = often synonymous with blatant lying
Mainstream media mendacity . . .
From my perspective, most Left-Green-progressive people in Germany and Europe now seem to be in total denial about that. Historically we/they certainly know it but at the moment most seem to be making desperate efforts to repress that knowledge. There was a time when awareness of that was top of mind.
After decades of being on the ball raising people’s consciousness, suddenly Left-Green-progressives now act as if consciousness-raising only helps the extreme Right.
Go figure.
it's not that "they’ll find"
but this report itself is basically an announcement that they've now set up another scheme to run in the dark, and that contributors/fixers should go there.
purging primary voters,
shutting polling stations, moving them and not telling anyone where, giving people the wrong ballot, making them register as a Democrat 12 years before the primary takes place. Don't trust them at all. The party cannot be reformed. It must be destroyed.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Don't worry about Dims self-destructing
Prediction: when Müller gets the boot, soon after Rod Rosenstein gets impeached, it's game on for the Repugnant offensive drive. This is kind of like when the Germans failed to cross the Meuse in the Battle of the Bulge--despite horrendous losses, they fought on till they could fight no more. The Dims have cried "RussiaRussiaRussia" too often, with nothing to show except their own perfidy.
We should all flood that story
With corrections to the last paragraph.
Assuming comments are allowed. (I haven't looked).
Nope.
Speaking of French, this story appeared on the bottom of the page Amanda linked to:
France Plans Revival of Compulsory National Service
I don't want to hijack this thread, but thought it worth pointing out. I'd love to make this into its own essay, but am jammed for time.
Anyway, pardon my French when I say, "Fuck all of these assholes."