[San Francisco Chronicle]
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will personally “step in” and prevent Hillary Clinton’s bid to take her nomination fight to the Democratic National Convention in August, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said "I will step in" if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries.
"For now, 2,026 is the magic number" of pledged and unpledged delegates needed by a candidate to win the party's presidential nomination, she said, but "if they decide to seat (Florida and Michigan) this weekend, there will be a new magic number."
While saying she believes those two states' delegates should be seated, Pelosi added that it must happen ''in a way that is not destructive to any sense of order in the party."
"If you have no order and no discipline in terms of party rules, people will be having their primary in the year before the presidential election," she said. "So there has to be some penalty."
She said the party committee will come up with a formula that is "fair and accepted by both campaigns," perhaps allowing the states 50 percent of their delegates. But "if the resolution is not appropriate, then it remains for the (Democratic National Convention) credentials committee to resolve it," she said. Then, "it will have to happen by the end of June" or she will intervene, she said.
OUR TAKE: If the HRC supporters registered to vote in Speaker Pelosi’s district vote for one of her opponents in the June, 2008 Democratic primary for the Speaker’s seat in the House, maybe she will get the message that she should refrain from trying to influence the outcome of voting by the DNC Rules Committee this week-end, and the Credentials Committee (should Senator Clinton chose to take it that far).
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will personally “step in” and prevent Hillary Clinton’s bid to take her nomination fight to the Democratic National Convention in August, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said "I will step in" if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries.
"For now, 2,026 is the magic number" of pledged and unpledged delegates needed by a candidate to win the party's presidential nomination, she said, but "if they decide to seat (Florida and Michigan) this weekend, there will be a new magic number."
While saying she believes those two states' delegates should be seated, Pelosi added that it must happen ''in a way that is not destructive to any sense of order in the party."
"If you have no order and no discipline in terms of party rules, people will be having their primary in the year before the presidential election," she said. "So there has to be some penalty."
She said the party committee will come up with a formula that is "fair and accepted by both campaigns," perhaps allowing the states 50 percent of their delegates. But "if the resolution is not appropriate, then it remains for the (Democratic National Convention) credentials committee to resolve it," she said. Then, "it will have to happen by the end of June" or she will intervene, she said.
OUR TAKE: If the HRC supporters registered to vote in Speaker Pelosi’s district vote for one of her opponents in the June, 2008 Democratic primary for the Speaker’s seat in the House, maybe she will get the message that she should refrain from trying to influence the outcome of voting by the DNC Rules Committee this week-end, and the Credentials Committee (should Senator Clinton chose to take it that far).
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