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Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs

by andrewalker08, Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 07:56:33 PM EST

With the race for the Democratic presidential nomination looking more and more like it will be decided at the Denver convention this August, I thought I'd bring attention to a news item that sort of slipped under the radar with out a whole lot of people noticing.

On January 14th, the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) quietly met in Denver, Colorado to vote on confirming Howard Dean's nominations for Chair of the Convention Credentials Committee along with his 25 Party Leader & Elected Official (PLEO) appointments.

Chairing the 2008 Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee are some familiar names. Alexis Herman, James Roosevelt, Jr. and Eliseo Roques-Arroyo will be heading up the committee that will determine whether the delegations from Florida and Michigan are allowed to vote at the convention in August.

You may know Alexis Herman and James Roosevelt, Jr. as they are the co-chairs of the DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee. The DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee was the panel that stripped Florida and Michigan of their national convention delegates.

Also, pursuant to Article VII of the Call for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Howard Dean nominated and the DNC Executive Committee confirmed the following 25 Party Leaders & Elected Officials (PLEOs) to serve on the Credentials Committee:

Dean Aguillen
Don Beyer
Allyn Brooks-LaSure
Jose Ceballos
Ralph Dawson
Sheila Dixon, Mayor
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Hartina Flournoy
Maryscott "Scotty" Greenwood
Janice Griffin
Adelita Grijalva
Laura Harris
Kathy Hoyt
Carol Juneau, State Senator
Scott Maddox
Iman Malik Mujahid
Maria Neira
Kate O'Connor
Carol Pensky
Bob Rogan
Leila Sahar
Marc Stanley
Michael Steed
Jane Stetson
William Straus, State Representative

For a complete bio of each of Gov. Dean's Credentials Committee appointees, please click here.

Tags: Democratic National Convention (all tags)

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Re: Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs (none / 0)

I read about this. Supposedly, he picked people whose loyalty is to the national party, not to their state parties. Preparing for the reinstatement of Florida and Michigan.

by randym77 on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:10:38 PM EST

ya think? (none / 0)

Kate O'Connor
Bob Rogan

by Jerome Armstrong on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:23:54 PM EST
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Re: ya think? (none / 0)

Wow. Haven't heard her name for years.

by ChrisR on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:15:25 PM EST
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Very interesting (none / 0)

What is your take on these appointments? I notice right off that two out of three chairs have ties to the Clinton Administration, as do several of the other members. One of the members is from Florida. Another is a voting rights activist. Others are affiliated with the teachers unions. Many of the others are hard to figure in terms of possible orientation vis a viz Clinton/Obama. Again, what do you think?

by freemansfarm on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:16:55 PM EST

I think we should focus... (none / 0)

...On the credentials committee members allocated to the presidential candidates from each state.

by andrewalker08 on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:19:25 PM EST
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Re: I think we should focus... (none / 0)

Do you know anything about them? Please, I would be very interested to hear any info. you have on this. This is the kind of nuts and bolts stuff that really matters, and is hardly ever mentioned in the discourse.

by freemansfarm on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:23:40 PM EST
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Re: Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs (none / 0)

This committee would rule in the DNC's favor, but that would then be pushed to the floor of the convention to be voted on, which is where it would be decided, if that's needed.

by Jerome Armstrong on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:22:57 PM EST

Re: Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs (none / 0)

I know that you are an expert. Can I ask you what makes you so sure that the Committee will back the DNC?

by freemansfarm on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:24:24 PM EST
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so the delegate winner pre-FL/MI would...? (none / 0)

end up as the nominee, unless some delegates switch sides?

Essentially, whichever candidate has the more delegates will end up getting the rules set up for their candidate?

Or could this ultimately come down to the handful of Edwards supporters to decide? Perhaps he will be the kingmaker, after all.

by enthusiast on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:26:23 PM EST
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Beyer is all Obama (none / 0)

Don Beyer is from Virginia, and he is Obama's National Finance Co-Chair. He has been with Obama from the beginning.

His wife, Megan Beyer, is on a "Women for Barack" committee in Virginia, or something to that effect.

They own several auto dealerships in Virginia selling Volvo and Subaru cars.

by Veteran and Democrat on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 08:28:12 PM EST

i thought i remembered reading (none / 0)

Somewhere that the candidate with the most delegates heading into the convention was going to be able to determine who is on the credentials committee. Or is it that s/he decides whether they will follow the ruling of the committee? thanks for any answers.

by highgrade on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 09:26:03 PM EST

Re: Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs (none / 0)

This committee is stacked with Obama people. Strange.

by blueflorida on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 09:44:27 PM EST

Re: Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs (none / 0)

Obama people from Dean?

GASP say it ain't so.

I believe in Hillary

by sonofdonkeykong on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 09:47:23 PM EST
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Too bad (none / 0)

Dean whupped Ickes -- and everyone else's -- ass, huh?

Elections have consequences... even elections for party chairmanship.

by zonk on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 09:48:31 PM EST
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Re: Too bad (none / 0)

Except elections for superdelegates, which your fellow Obama supporters seem to regard as illegitimate.

"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman

by Steve M on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 09:51:01 PM EST
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Re: Too bad (none / 0)

And, except for elections in Michigan and Florida that don't go the way Howard Dean wanted them to.

by hwc on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 10:48:07 PM EST
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Re: Too bad (none / 0)

Insults have consequences.

Good luck with all that.

¡Si, soy PUMA!

by RonK Seattle on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 02:25:19 PM EST
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Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs (none / 0)

There's a surprise. So was the DNC Rules committee that threw out the rulebook and stripped Florida and Mich of all their delegates in a blatant effort to rig the nominating process.

by hwc on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 10:46:51 PM EST
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I bet the Clintons (none / 0)

are getting plenty pissed Dean easily dismissed their main man Ickes in 2005, huh?

Heh... I was just enjoying a tip down MyDD lane archives, marveling at the threads.

Memories... misty watered colored memmmoorrriiieeeess.... of the way, we were.

by zonk on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 09:47:35 PM EST

Re: Dean Appoints Credentials Committee Chairs (none / 0)

Its up to them. FL can vote or McCain can bomb Iran.

by dpANDREWS on Thu Feb 07, 2008 at 11:03:15 PM EST

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