How can Wolfson even ponder that Hillary supporters on the big ol nasty rules committee could push through a dang thing? :shrug:
Logistically, do they have the muscle to "force" anything on Howard Dean and the DNC?
Wolfsen said it would
go through the DNC; are not the DNC the ones who rightly penalized FLA/MI in the first place for breaking the rules? So I'm totally missing the logic in Wolfson's assumption.
From Raw Story (5/5/08):
He (Wolfson) was responding to reports that Clinton would unveil a "nuclear option" -- outlined by Tom Edsall at the Huffington Post -- to use her leverage on the Democratic Party's rules committee to force the party to seat Florida and Michigan. Those delegates could put Clinton over the top of Barack Obama in the race to be the party's presidential nominee.
Wolfson said there was no secret plan, and that Clinton's goal was simply to include all 50 states in the nominating process.
"We believe the delegations ought to be seated; the process of seating them is a transparent process, it is a public process, it goes through the DNC," Wolfson said. "Anyone reading that story would be surprised to see that our desire to have Florida and Michigan seated is somehow described as secret when we call almost daily for those delegations to be seated."
more:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Nuclear_option_Clinton_denies_plan_to_0505.html