Howard Dean: Thank you to Barack Obama for picking Joe Biden.
Thanking Obama people and Clinton people for getting together to work out things that could have been a problem. Special thanks to Sen. Clinton for stepping up.
Roll call…
Tennessee delegation Credentials Committee members are Jerry L. Maynard (Nashville), Thomas Moore (Dresden), and Martha Perry (Pegram), all present.
A quorum is present.
Proposed rules. When a person is making motions, come to microphone to be recognized. Line up according to supporting or opposing the motion. Each speaker gets one minute.
Rules adopted as printed.
Opening remarks by committee co-chairs Alexis Herman (U.S. Secretary of Labor 1997 to 2001, also co-chair of Rules Committee), James Roosevelt, Jr. (President and CEO of Tufts Health Plan, also co-chair of Rules Committee), and Eliseo Roques-Arroyo, (former Executive Assistant to Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Senate Minority Leader Miguel Hernandez-Agosto).
Jurisdictional challenges transferred to Credential Committee by Rules and Bylaws Committee. Rules committee goal was “open fair honest nominating contest.”
Formal business. Series of resolutions. Today’s resolutions will be presented to convention tomorrow at 3PM as first order of business.
First resolution: unchallenged state delegations. 56 state and territorial jurisdictions, 46 no disputes. Officially credential delegates from those 46 states. Resolution passed.
Fourth resolution: Matters re. the State of Florida. Motion to seat delegates from Florida. Necessary for unity, and to ensure Florida delegates can participate fully in convention. Discussion re. history of the issue. Origins of resolution. Obama sent letter asking for Florida delegation to be allowed to participate fully. Sen. Clinton has also advocated for restoring Florida delegations votes. RBC must follow rules, but Credentials Committee has broader latitude. Resolution passes. Florida delegations full voting rights restored.
Fifth resolution: Matters re. the State of Michigan. Motion to restore Michigan delegation to full strength. Resolution passes. Michigan delegation full voting rights restored.
Resolutions re. dismissing various other state challenges being approved...
UPDATE: Video of Florida vote
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Florida delegations full
"The truth is, we had a process. . . . We're going to back these rules." D. Brazile, 9/26/07 (almost a year to the day)
It's the right thing to do, of course. Too bad they went this route to do it.
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Tom Eagleton was exactly the kind of VP candidate that Muskie or Humphrey would have chosen: a harmless, Catholic, neo-liberal Rotarian nebbish from one of the border states who presumably wouldn't make any waves.
It's the right thing to do,
It's the right thing to do, of course.
Why isn't adhering to the pre-established rules the "right thing to do"?
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
I think we all knew all
I think we all knew all along that there was no way that FL and MI were going to be deprived of their vote at the Convention.
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Tom Eagleton was exactly the kind of VP candidate that Muskie or Humphrey would have chosen: a harmless, Catholic, neo-liberal Rotarian nebbish from one of the border states who presumably wouldn't make any waves.
Overheard: A committee
Overheard: A committee member talking with someone from their state, "Yeah, we're the Credentials Committee, but we don't have any say so over credentials. You have to check with the Obama campaign for than."
"Unity." ____________________
"Unity."
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Tom Eagleton was exactly the kind of VP candidate that Muskie or Humphrey would have chosen: a harmless, Catholic, neo-liberal Rotarian nebbish from one of the border states who presumably wouldn't make any waves.