FLINT CITIZENS DEMAND DEMOCRATS REVOTE BY CAUCUSES!

FLINT CITIZENS CALL FOR STATE WIDE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CAUCUSES!

See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Flintcitizen/message/1489
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GOOD MORNING FLINT!
BY Terry Bankert 3/23/08
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SUMMARY ON Flint Talk http://flinttalk.com/viewtopic.php?p=26413#26413
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Revolt of Michigan’s Common Democrats![trb] DNC Rules Chair says Michigan; Hold caucuses.[D2] for the common democrat.[trb]

Roosevelt encouraged Michigan to return to its original plan, adopted before the Jan. 15 primary was set. Party caucuses had been planned for Feb. 9, and Roosevelt suggested the party could hold caucuses sometime in May or June. "The Michigan party knows how to run an alternative process," he said. [d2]

I am for the little (d) common Democrat. Its time we show up, stand up and speak up. What is needed is a demonstration of support for the proposition that Michigan must hold a caucus to re franchise Michigan at the National Democratic Convention. Forward this article to all of your democratic friends.[trb]

James Roosevelt Jr., a Massachusetts health-care executive is co-chair of the DNC's rules committee. [D2]

CALL TO ACTION FOR PRECINCT DELEGATES TO TAKE OVER THE MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

The current non-leadership of the Michigan Democratic party wants to broker a Democratic Convention by leveraging its superdelegate vote.[trb]

The last thing they want is for the common democrat to assert its democratic voice at a caucus. Jesse Jackson taught the non-leaders currently in control of the Michigan Democratic party that they lose control if too many regular democrats get involved in the process. [trb]

This is about power, control and the maintenance of special privilege of the super delegates and their employees that currently run the Michigan Democratic Party. [trb]

The States precinct delegates should rise up and take over the Michigan Democratic party. Where is Sam Riddle when you need him?[trb]

THE CANDIDATES SHOULD FOLLOW US!

Who cares what the candidates think. This is our party and the Michigan leadership has screwed up and disenfranchised 500,000 voters. We need to throwout ( hold accountable) our leadership and gerterdone ASAP![trb]

Even if the candidates could agree, there were serious questions about whether party officials could conduct caucuses. In 2004, about 163,000 people voted at about 250 Democratic caucus sites. Party officials estimate that 2008 caucuses -- amid the closest nomination fight in recent history -- could attract as many as 2 million voters, requiring 1,000 or more caucus sites. [d2]

State Democratic Party postpones district conventions [D]did you know this?[trb]

Dems look at divvying up delegates Candidates nix mail-in or caucus voting, so attention turns to a negotiated division.[d2]

WHO IS THIS PANEL?

The panel of four influential Democrats who proposed the do-over primary conferred again Friday afternoon, searching for an alternative that would be acceptable to the state and national parties, and Obama and Clinton. [d2]

WE MUST HOLD OUR LEADERSHIP ACCOUNTABLE TO REGAIN THE TRUST OF MICHIGAN VOTERS

Acknowledging that Michigan's delegate selection mess is unlikely to be resolved in the coming week, the state Democratic Party decided to postpone its congressional district conventions. [d]

A process of elimination is leaving Michigan Democratic leaders with a series of unappetizing choices: accept a negotiated split of the state's convention delegates, hope a nominee emerges who can lift the national party's ban on Michigan, or pursue a divisive, long-shot fight for the state's place in Denver[d2]

15 district gatherings, at which more than half of the Democratic delegates are elected to the Democratic National Convention in August, had been slated for March 29. [d]

Without a new election, Michigan could follow the path of Florida, which like Michigan held an unauthorized January primary and drew the delegate equivalent of the death penalty. Officials in Florida are working to strike a deal with the campaigns and the national party that would seat its delegates on a formula based only partially on the results of the state's Jan. 29 contest. [d2]

"Caucuses necessarily exclude too many people," said Clinton spokesman Phil Singer. Obama has consistently out-performed Clinton in caucus states[d2]

The state party's executive committee late Friday postponed the conventions until April 19. [d]

It remains to be seen whether the delegate picture will be any clearer by then. The national party stripped Michigan of its delegates because its Jan. 15 primary was held three weeks earlier than party rules allowed. [d]

An effort to have a do-over primary died in the Legislature earlier this week. On Friday, the Obama and Clinton campaigns ruled out two other options: a mail-in vote and a party caucus. [d]

That leaves as the only choices for seating delegates: Accepting a negotiated split of delegates; hoping a candidate emerges who will lift the party's ban on the seating of the delegates; or pursuing a long-shot appeal of party rules. [d]

Michigan is supposed to have 156 delegates to the national convention. Of that total, 83 are to be elected at congressional district conventions. Another 45 are picked at the State Party Central Committee meeting on May 17. The other 28 are uncommitted superdelegate, including elected officials and state and national party officials. [d]

WHO TOLD MARK BREWER TO VIOLATE THE RULES OF THE DNC THAT DISENFRANCHISED 500,000 MICHIGAN DEMOCRATS?

Levin and others have argued that New Hampshire and other states also changed the dates of their contests, violating party rules, and should have been punished as well. Michigan set its Jan. 15 contest only after New Hampshire's top election official announced in August that his state would move up. [D2]

With efforts to set up a June 3 state-run primary dead in Lansing, aides to presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on Friday ruled out two likely alternatives: a mail-in primary or caucuses run by the Michigan Democratic Party. Even with approval from the candidates, either plan would face steep logistical hurdles. And there were few ideas beyond those two for how the state could hold a nomination contest that would bring it back within the national party's rules. [d2]

COMMON DEMOCRATS MUST FORCE THE MICHIGAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS SUPER (duper) DELEGATES TO FOLLOW THE SUGGESTION , RULES,ORDERS,OF THE DNC, DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE

Roosevelt encouraged Michigan to return to its original plan, adopted before the Jan. 15 primary was set. Party caucuses had been planned for Feb. 9, and Roosevelt suggested the party could hold caucuses sometime in May or June. "The Michigan party knows how to run an alternative process," he said. [d2]

THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN MUST STEP FORWARD TO STRAIGHTEN THIS MESS UP AND REGAIN VOTER CONFIDENCE.

As always I am available to help.[trb]

Posted here by Terry Bankert ...
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—where did this stuff come from---
[d] Detroitnews.com http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/POLITICS01/803220419/1361
[d2] Detroitnews.com http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/POLITICS01/803220320
[trb] Coments of Terry Bankert to nclude CAP headlines http://attorneybankert.com/

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