Democratic Showdown On Saturday Could Get Ugly [View All]

Houston Chronicle
Posted 5/28/2008 6:44 AM CDT

The meeting of the Democratic Party rules committee in Washington on Saturday, which is set to decide what to do about the delegations from Michigan and Florida, could get ugly in light of a memo released yesterday by party lawyers. From Yahoo News:

"Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party's legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.

The memo was sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday at a Washington hotel. The committee is considering ways to include the two important general election battlegrounds at the nominating convention in August, and the staff analysis says seating half the delegates is "as far as it legally can go."

This is sure to anger the Clinton supporters who want the delegations seated according to the results of the primaries in both states, and have planned protests outside the hotel where the meeting is to be held. They have even been mailing Florida oranges and pairs of shoes to committee members to get their attention. OK, oranges I get, somebody explain the symbolism of the shoes.

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