Reply #19: You mistate the article completely, Barret says the Dems broke their own rules

[McCamy Taylor]

which called for anyone who moved up their primaries---Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, Florida---to have only half of their delegates seated.


Those of you at DU who are demanding that we follow the letter of the law in the Democratic Party bylaws, according to Wayne Barret who says he actually went back and read the most recent rules, that is how they are written. No one is supposed to change and there is a prescribe penalty.

And he makes a very good case that this was the Republicans who did it and that Democrats tried to stop it---and that the Democratic Party's intention in issuing the "no seated delegates" ruling was not to strip the delegates but to apply additional political pressure at the time to aid the Democratic challenge to the Republicans moving up the date.

I am going to start my own thread about this excellent article by the excellent Mr. Barret. This is a hit thread.