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May312008
Ickes says Mich. plan "hijacks" delegates
Harold Ickes, senior campaign advisor to Senator Clinton and DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee member, speaks before the vote on the Michigan delegate plan which would give each delegate one half vote and would allocate 69 delegates to Senator Clinton and 59 to Senator Obama. A proportional allocation according to the vote would give Clinton 73 and Obama 55. Ickes says that a lot of people did not vote but that that is not an excuse for overriding the views of the voters, and points out that the DNC Charter mandates "fair representation." He says that "hijacking" is not the way to "start down the path to party unity." He says that Senator Clinton reserves her right to take this dispute to the credentials committee. (6:01) (Note: contains two instances of the word "ass")
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Reader Comments (3)
They should have decided to organize full re-votes.
Might we see Clinton pull a Bush and take her grievance to the US Supreme Court?
the only one that wanted the delegates hijacked was hillary by wantng to seat them after she agreed that they would not count, just to suit her presidential bid, and it backfired!i am glad the DNC called it as they saw it.