DNC to take on FL, MI issue again
Posted: Friday, April 25, 2008 5:20 PM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
The Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee will take up the issue of Florida and Michigan again on May 31st, likely its last opportunity to come up with a solution before jurisdiction moves to the Credentials Committee. (That would officially happen June 29th.)
The RBC has two challenges before it from supporters of seating voting delegations from Michigan (Ferguson) and Florida (Ausman). Those challenges generally dispute that the committee had the authority, in part, to strip those states of their delegates.
Members of the RBC could potentially come to the meeting with an agreed-upon solution that would quash the issue. But if that doesn’t happen -- something that has seemed a near impossibility so far -- the committee would take up the complaints and possibly vote on them. If those challenges are voted down, then any further appeals would have to be made to that Credentials Committee.