When will the DNC Rules Committee meet

[Eric J in MN]

...and decide whether to support Super Delegate reform?

[vegetarian x]

1. Hath Hell frozen over yet? Will it ever?

[tonyt53]

2. Don't think that will be on the agenda. Most Democrats are fine with having supers.

[Gothmog]

4. There are likely to be two or more minority reports on this issue and open primaries

There will be a couple of roll call votes on the rules as adopted by the rules committee on Monday. Clinton delegates are already being "whipped" on these votes.

[Gothmog]

3. The DNC rules committee starts meeting Saturday morning-July 23

There plan is to complete the work before the state delegations meet on Sunday night-July 24. There is suppose to be a briefing on the results of the rules committee meeting.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Do you know if the meeting on Saturday is open to reporters? NT

NT

[Gothmog]

6. I am pretty sure that it is

I need to check on this

[Gothmog]

7. The rules committee is open to the press

[Eric J in MN]

8. Thanks. I hope there will be an article on it. NT

NT

[timlot]

9. I think some form of super delegates is necessary.

Republican could crossover and cause havoc in our primaries.

[eastwestdem]

11. Not to mention what happened to the repubs this year...an outsider coming in and taking over the

party with attractive, unsubstantiated promises. That whole fiasco confirmed in my mind why we need supers.

[Eric J in MN]

12. Democrats aren't Republicans. If a Democratic candidate

...made the bigoted remarks which Donald Trump made then he wouldn't get the plurality of Democratic primary votes.

Democratic primary voters don't need Super Delegates to save them from themselves.

[DemonGoddess]

13. Yes, Democrats do need the supers

we're seeing the results of the Tea Party takeover of the GOP, now. If we don't have the supers, we could potentially face the same.

[Eric J in MN]

14. Or we'll nominate a bigot? NT

NT

[Hortensis]

15. There are other ways to be dangerous.

For instance, left-wing populist and left-wing fascist movements are very real, provide opportunities for strong, charismatic leaders to overcome all establishment safeguards against them, and have the potential to destroy nations.

We have a wonderful, strong structure, but that a good 2/3 of the nation have been taught that our government is causing all their problems is currently a dangerous weakness. A scary weakness, because if a bad leader came along and united populists from the far left and the kind of rightists we saw at the GOP convention, these people would burn our national structure down and cheer doing it. It could happen here.

[hack89]

10. No reason to reform super delegates nt