First Read: The Rules. Convention.

[madfloridian]

The Rules

Yesterday on MSNBC with Chuck Todd, Howard Dean made it clear it was up to Hillary what she did at convention. Here is the video from that interview.

Here are the rules quoted at First Read.

A Democratic Party operative familiar with DNC rules points out that Clinton must approve, in writing, for her name to be placed in nomination. DNC chairman Howard Dean repeated this to NBC's Chuck Todd on MSNBC Tuesday. The rules provide that:

1. Presidential candidates may place their name in nomination by giving their written approval and submitting delegate petitions containing at least 300 but no more than 600 delegate signatures. A delegate may not sign more than one petition and no more than 50 petition signatures may come from any one state. This means that any possible presidential candidate who wishes to place their name in nomination must give their “written approval.” (Rule C.6.a-b) Candidates who are the Party’s presumptive nominee must still submit these delegate petitions.

2. Each presidential candidate who has requested to be nominated is entitled to a total of 20 minutes for nominating and seconding speeches, the time to run without interruption. (Rule C.6.d)

3. After nominations for presidential candidates have closed, “the Convention shall proceed to a roll call vote by states on the selection of the presidential candidate.” A majority vote of the Convention’s overall total number of delegate votes is required to nominate. (Rule. C.7a.-b)

4. During the course of the roll call vote, delegates may vote for any presidential candidate regardless of whether or not the name of that candidate was placed in nomination. However, a vote cast for LaRouche or any other non-bona-fide Democrat is considered a vote for “Present.”
(Rule C.7.c)

The operative adds that balloting continues until a candidate reaches a majority of delegate votes. The last time the presidential nomination went to a second ballot was 1952.

Howard Dean can not go anywhere now with being shouted down thanks to her supporters.

A blogger visited some of the Puma blogs and posted about it in alarm.

The rules are the rules. Dean made a big price for sticking to the rules during the primary. Now there are still two lawsuits going on from Florida.

Hillary can do as she wishes, apparently. It appears she will not let things settle down. It has changed my opinion of her and her hubby, and I feel kind of wistful about that.

[still_one]

1. The worst thing about this is that the differences between Obama and mccain are no longer relevent

it is changed to be about Hillary, and that is very troubling

[madfloridian]

2. Correct, unfortunately.

:shrug:

[WeDidIt]

3. IT's the 2012 gambit

Plain and simple. She's sabotaging Obama's campaign.

[madfloridian]

6. She's doing nothing to stop it.

For sure.

[Redstone]

4. That's such fucking HORRIBLE grammar!

1) "Presidential candidates may place their name..."
THEIR name? Singular versus plural here, guys, it has to be either "their name" or "his or her name."

2) "place their name in nomination..."
How, specifically, does one place his or her name into being named? Can somebody give those people a dictionary?

Redstone

[madfloridian]

5. I guess it uses plural to refer to through the years.

:shrug: