{"id":369233,"date":"2018-07-13T14:18:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dnc-panel-approves-plan-to-gut-power-of-superdelegates\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T14:18:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T13:18:52","slug":"dnc-panel-approves-plan-to-gut-power-of-superdelegates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dnc-panel-approves-plan-to-gut-power-of-superdelegates\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Panel Approves Plan to Gut Power of Superdelegates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the face of\u00a0<\/span>fervent opposition<\/a>\u00a0from Democratic elites who \u201c<\/span>think their vote is more important<\/a>\u201d than the will of the party\u2019s base<\/span>,<\/a>\u00a0the Democratic National Committee\u2019s (DNC) Rules and Bylaws arm\u00a0<\/span>cleared a major hurdle<\/a>\u00a0in the fight to curtail the power of superdelegates on Wednesday by approving a plan that would end their ability to cast votes for the presidential candidate on the first ballot at the party\u2019s convention.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe activists that have been concerned that superdelegates will overturn the will of the voters should feel good about this,\u201d DNC member Elaine Kamarck said in a\u00a0<\/span>statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the plan to gut the influence of superdelegates \u2014 who have been free since 1984 to put their weight behind any candidate no matter how the public voted \u2014 has received broad support from Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as an important first step toward making the party\u2019s process more \u201copen and transparent<\/a>,\u201d establishment figures who stand to lose power if the plan is implemented are staging a last-minute \u201crevolt<\/a>\u201d to block the rule change.<\/p>\n

As investigative reporter Alex Kotch\u00a0<\/span>noted in a Twitter thread<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>on Wednesday, at least two of the Democratic insiders who are clinging desperately to their undue influence as superdelegates happen to be corporate lobbyists \u2014 a fact that\u00a0<\/span>Politico\u00a0<\/span>neglected to mention in its reporting on the party elites\u2019 \u201clongshot bid to block the measure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey don\u2019t realize it but they\u2019re proving the point of Sanders and everyone else who\u2019s opposed to superdelegates,\u201d Kotch writes. \u201cMany prioritize corporate interests over those of everyday people and thus automatically support the less progressive candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Two of the three superdelegates who are opposed to the Sanders plan:<\/p>\n

One is a health care lobbyist
Another is a former lobbyist<\/p>\n

(Politico neglects to include this info) https:\/\/t.co\/uVobZfIUFe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Alex Kotch 🔥 (@alexkotch) July 11, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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As lobbyists, they somehow think their vote is…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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In the face of\u00a0fervent opposition\u00a0from Democratic elites who \u201cthink their vote is more important\u201d than the will of the party\u2019s base,\u00a0the Democratic National Committee\u2019s (DNC) Rules and Bylaws arm\u00a0cleared a major hurdle\u00a0in the fight to curtail the power of superdelegates on Wednesday by approving a plan that would end their ability to cast votes for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":369235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}