No Floor Vote At Democratic Party Convention?
Something is scaring the Democrats. After agreeing to a role-call vote at the convention and having Hillary Clinton’s name put on the ballot, it looks like organizers are having second thoughts. Perhaps they are concerned that things will not go off as smoothly as they had hoped and that Hillary Clinton supporters will not go quietly into the night.
Supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton are furiously circulating petitions on the floor of the Democratic National Convention tonight, hoping to stave off a plan to hold the convention’s roll call at breakfast Wednesday — out of the public eye — sources inside the delegations say.
The move being worked out between the Obama campaign and officials behind Clinton’s suspended bid, would work in two parts: Delegates would cast votes at their hotels Wednesday morning; that night, at the Pepsi Center convention site, the roll-call process would rely on the votes cast that morning, the delegates said.
Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette, a former state co-chair for Clinton said she knows the camps are in negotiations about what to do.
“My view is we need to come together as a party,” DeGette said. “I admire Hillary Clinton greatly, but I think it would be divisive to have a vote on the floor. We need to have a unanimous vote.”
Dissent vill not be tolerated! You vill support da Messiah!
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