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Related: About this forumSome Democratic Lawmakers Are Open to Removing Lobbyists as Superdelegates
MAYBE Democrats shouldn't have corporate lobbyists as superdelegates?
Whoever came up with having them in the first place is so far in the pocket of corporations that they don't even think about what the rest of us would think of it.
DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS HAVE declared that they will work to get money out of politics, but only a few are interested in getting rid of a Democratic Party system that allows corporate lobbyists to select the partys presidential nominee, potentially thwarting the will of voters.
Democratic National Committee rules allow for 712 so-called superdelegates to vote at the nominating convention, alongside the 4,053 pledged delegates who are selected directly by primary voters and caucusgoers.
Most of the 712 superdelegates, who are not bound to the decisions of voters, are elected Democratic politicians. But a significant number are individuals in the private sector. As we reported previously, several superdelegates are former politicians and party insiders who now work as lobbyists for banks, oil companies, foreign governments, and payday lenders, among other special interests.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/superdelegates-lobbyists/
Democratic National Committee rules allow for 712 so-called superdelegates to vote at the nominating convention, alongside the 4,053 pledged delegates who are selected directly by primary voters and caucusgoers.
Most of the 712 superdelegates, who are not bound to the decisions of voters, are elected Democratic politicians. But a significant number are individuals in the private sector. As we reported previously, several superdelegates are former politicians and party insiders who now work as lobbyists for banks, oil companies, foreign governments, and payday lenders, among other special interests.
https://theintercept.com/2016/04/06/superdelegates-lobbyists/
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Some Democratic Lawmakers Are Open to Removing Lobbyists as Superdelegates (Original Post)
yurbud
Apr 2016
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. Why wait for the SCOTUS or TPP to allow corporations to govern directly?
AgerolanAmerican
(1,000 posts)2. This is the insane reality
This race is close enough that a lobbyist-as-superdelegate may cast the deciding vote as to who is our nominee, a vote that will carry the same weight as that of hundreds of thousands of actual voters.
If that's not a strong enough argument to end the practice of having superdelegates, I don't know what could be.
azmom
(5,208 posts)3. They never thought about it. LOL
They are shameless.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)4. Remove lobbyists as Superdelegates? Wouldn't that reduce their face time
with the candidates and hinder their closing the deals for their votes? Not going to happen.