progressive caucus.

Though I think almost everyone at DU spells it wrong.

He isn't a politician. You'd have to check to see if he's registered with the party. I don't know how easy those records are to get.

right away. My mistake. Still, I have the question of whether he is a convention delegate. I cannot find the answer. If not, I can't see him on any Democratic Party committees at the convention, especially given his attacks on President Obama.

I've seen it a lot so it isn't just you. I worked as a newspaper reporter for a number of years and got the importance of correct name spellings drilled into my head.

I noticed it right after posting it and edited before even reading any replies. I always appreciate corrections in spelling.

I think there are two schools of thought here, depending on whether people support Bernie or Hillary. (For the record, I voted for Bernie in my primary, but I am not anti-Hillary.)

1. The party has moved to the right, so there are people who are to the left of the party and therefore not registered as Democrats who are still a part of the progressive movement and would have been Democrats had the party not shifted right. They should be included in the party's leadership.

2. The party is made up of specific people who are registered as Democrats, but is being taken over lately by people to the left of the party. These people are not actually Democrats and therefore they should not be included in the party's leadership.

There are arguments for both sides and I'm sure they'll get hashed out in this thread. I can see both sides. I'm on the left side of the party so I understand the feeling that progressive voices should be included even if those people feel the party has moved to their right, but on the other hand I understand your position that the leadership of the party should actually come from the party. I don't feel that there is a clear answer, and anyone to the left of the party could register as a Democrat and then instantly fulfill the requirement anyway.

But again, he could very well be registered as a Democrat.

This is the Democratic Party Platform we're talking about. It is the official intent of that party, not a mishmash of political beliefs.

If West is a Democrat, then OK. But most of the members of those committees are either delegates to the convention or super delegates. The Platform Committee will make important decisions about Democratic issues. Shouldn't the people making those decisions be actual Democrats who are delegates to the convention, not just people named by a candidate?

That's my opinion, anyhow. I want Democratic Party leaders in charge of deciding what is in the party's official platform.

But I don't have a problem with bringing in a 'wild card' like West -someone who isn't a delegate. That, to me, ensures that outside-the-box views have an equal airing.
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I didn't get the "who are delegates to the convention." For some reason I thought you were asking if they were Democrats, not if they were delegates. I am in the midst of a migraine headache and I'm obviously not thinking clearly. I should bow out of this.

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The Clinton campaign’s choices are Wendy Sherman, a former top State Department official and Clinton surrogate; Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress and a longtime Clinton confidante; Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez of Illinois; Carol Browner, a former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy and former head of the Environmental Protection Agency; Ohio state Rep. Alicia Reece; and Paul Booth of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union.
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Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez is the only person on that list who I know is a delegate.

Funny to see the lack of comparative analysis between the two candidates in terms of the question posed...

It's as if they assume HRC's contingent is 'valid' in terms of that very same question...

your reply hits to the heart of that and I thank you!

NT

It's likely that most of the ones you name will be delegates. Not all delegates have been named yet in most states, actually. DNC members are all super delegates. In most states, those elected as delegates are generally in party leadership positions in that state's Democratic Party organization, but they may well not have been selected yet, since they are often named at state conventions in many states.

I don't even know if Cornel West is a Democratic Party member.

...then even if that person is named as a delegate between now and the convention, Clinton didn't use delegate-status as a requirement.

You made me read the rules of the DNC. http://www.demrulz.org/wp-content/files/12.15.14_2016_Delegate_Selection_Documents_Mailing_-_Rules_Call_Regs_Model_Plan_Checklist_12.15.14.pdf Go the Call for the Meeting, Section VII, A(3)

I actually read these rules a week or so for another question.

Not much more needs to be said. His voice will be meaningless whens stacked against at least 10 decent, good and honest committee members put there by Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.