Delegate appeal news

by: memiller

Thu May 08, 2008 at 13:30:06 PM EDT

At its meeting on Wednesday night, May 8, the Executive Committee (of the MDP) made these decisions:

1. To file an appeal with the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee proposing that all 157 automatic and pledged Michigan delegates be seated with a full vote and that the 128 pledged delegates be allocated 69 for Clinton and 59 for Obama. Joel Ferguson will join the appeal and withdraw his own appeal.

2. To reschedule the May 17 State Central meeting to June 14 to allow time for the delegate dispute to be resolved.

Thank you for your continued patience and support.

Mark Brewer

My comments - At least the Ferguson idea is dead. Here is what I wrote in a comment to a diary on dkos this morning:

I am an elected Michigan delegate (6th CD, male Uncommitted), and I have to say that Michigan Democrats are still divided about this issue. Many (like myself and Martha) fought the MDP over this. I told Mark Brewer to his face last October that this would be a disaster. I continued to oppose it, and to support a re-do, until last month, when it became clear that would not happen under any circumstances.

However, there are many other Michigan voters who think the results are fine, and mainly blame Obama et al. for pulling out. This is simply a reality, and until we have a resolution, it will continue to sap our energy. I've been out canvassing, doing voter ID in my neighborhood, and I hear about this issue again and again, when I'm trying to change the subject to the issues for the fall campaign.

So, Martha, I AM hearing how Michigan voters feel. And it's all mixed up, and we need to put this behind us. If that takes a compromise that is less than ideal from any point of view, so be it.

Below, I list the members of the RBC, along with what I have been able to find out about whether they support [O]bama or [C]linton. This may give us some idea of how the vote might go down at their meeting on May 31:

Members
Harold Ickes, Jr. (Washington, D.C.) C
Donna Brazille (Washington, D.C.)
Donald Fowler (South Carolina) C
Allan Katz (Florida) O
Elizabeth Smith (Washington, D.C.) C
Mark Brewer (Michigan)
Ralph Dawson (New York)
Hartina Flournay (Washington, D.C.)
Carol Khare Fowler (South Carolina) O
Alice Germond (Washington, D.C.)
Jaime Gonzalez, Jr. (Texas) C
Janice Griffin (Virginia) O
Alice Huffman (California) C
Thomas Hynes (Illinois) O
Ben Johnson (Washington, D.C.) C
Elaine Kamarck (Massachusetts) C
Eric Kleinfeld (Washington, D.C.) C
David McDonald (state of Washington)
Mona Pasquil (California) C
Mame Reiley (Virginia) C
Garry Shay (California) C
Michael Steed (Washington, D.C.) C
Sharon Stroschein (South Dakota) O
Everett Ward (North Carolina) O
Jerome Wiley Segovia (Virginia)
Sarah Swisher (Iowa) O
Yvonne Gates (Nevada)
Martha Fuller Clark (New Hampshire) O