Mr. Super has posted a memo from Florida DNC Member Jon Ausman that addresses the latest DNC proposal for seating Florida's delegates. The essentials:
The staff of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have completed and submitted their review of the two appeals seeking to have 23 superdelegates and 92 pledged delegates award to Florida .
The first appeal notes the DNC Charter states Democratic US Senators, Democratic US House Members, former DNC Chairs and DNC Members “shall” be delegates to the Democratic National Convention. This “bill of rights” given to 23 Floridians cannot be taken away by a subordinate body created by the DNC since that subordinate body does not have the authority to do so.
The second appeal states the penalty for violating the “timing rule” “shall be” a fifty percent (50%) reduction in the pledged delegates and the loss of the three (3) unpledged add-on delegates. This means Florida should have at least 92 pledged delegates.
The remaining 93 pledged delegates and three (3) unpledged add-on delegates I hope to win at a later time if not on this appeal itself.
This appears to be tacit acceptance of the "50 percent solution" with the right reserved to seat the remaining delegates in the future in a manner that, in Ausman's words, "resolv[es] this matter early as it would help improve fundraising for both campaigns in Florida ... as well as allow our attention to focus on getting ready to be Senator McCain." Seems that short of either candidate "suspending" their campaigns, this thing will remain partially resolved until the convention.
--Mori Dinauer
