Michigan Primary Solution?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Democrats, Hillary, Michigan, Pledged DelegatesBottom line, she’d get 10 more delegates than him. My guess is that he’ll probably accept this and she won’t.
However, the important part here is that this is being put forth by Michigan democrats, so it’s going to be very hard for her to say no at this point:
The state party’s executive committee voted Wednesday to ask the national party’s Rules and Bylaws Committee to approve the 69-59 delegate split when it meets May 31. The plan would allow the state’s 157 delegates and superdelegates to be seated at the convention.A separate plan submitted to the rules committee by Democratic National Committee members Joel Ferguson of Michigan and Jon Ausman of Florida, both superdelegates, apparently will be withdrawn now that the Michigan executive committee has settled on the 69-59 plan. Under their proposal, delegates would have been allocated based on the primary election results, but have had only half a vote each. The superdelegates would have had full voting rights.
A message seeking comment was left on Ferguson’s cell phone Wednesday evening.
The DNC stripped Michigan and Florida of their convention delegates — 366 in all, including pledged delegates and superdelegates — for holding their primaries too early in the nominating process, which violated party rules.
More as it develops…
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