DNC Elects Standing Committee Leadership for 2008 Democratic National Convention

Democratic National Committee ^ | January 14, 2008 | DNC

[libstripper]

DENVER - The Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) unanimously elected DNC Chairman Howard Dean's nominations for the Chairs of the 2008 Democratic National Convention Standing Committees that are responsible for reviewing Convention business and formulating recommendations for consideration by Convention delegates. The Executive Committee's vote took place during the panel's recent meeting in Denver, site of the four-day Convention in August.

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Credentials Committee Elected to chair the Credentials Committee are Alexis Herman, James Roosevelt, Jr. and Eliseo Roques-Arroyo. Alexis Herman served as U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1997 to 2001. She served as DNC Chief of Staff for Chairman Ron Brown and later was named CEO of the 1992 Democratic National Convention. Since 2005, she has served as a Co-Chair of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee and also served as a Co-Chair of the Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling. James Roosevelt, Jr. is President and CEO of Tufts Health Plan, a Massachusetts based Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) and was formerly Associate Commissioner for Retirement Policy of the Social Security Administration in the Clinton Administration. He is the chief legal counsel for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and Co-Chair of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee. Eliseo Roques-Arroyo, a native of Puerto Rico, served as Executive Assistant to Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Senate Minority Leader Miguel Hernandez-Agosto and to Puerto Rico Delegate to Congress Antonio J. Colorado. He is a former Executive Director of the Democratic Party of Puerto Rico and presently a member of the DNC.

The Credentials Committee is charged with coordinating issues around the selection of delegates and alternates to the Convention and will likely meet in the summer. The committee will issue a report that is the first official item of business at the Convention.

[libstripper]

This tells us who the major players are likely to be in the upcoming DemonRat struggle over whether to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates. Of the three co-chairs of their Credentials Committee, it looks to me like two, Alexis Herman and Eliseo Roques-Arroyo, will vote however the Witch tells them to.

[libstripper]

Please read this in conjunction with MIchael Barone’s excellent artricle in today’s Townhall.com, which is posted at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971329/posts

Together they show how this might well play out.

[bert]

The Barone article parroted what the news has been reporting for sometime. I didn’t see any analysis as to what will be a predicted outcome.

I was disappointed in Barone for being so timid

[bcsco]

Bump for later.

[libstripper]

Here’s the FR link to a much better, more insightful article from today’s Townhall.com on the same subject, one that shows exactly how the Witch is likely to manipulate the Super Delegates and the Credentials Committee to get the present Michigan and Florida delegations seated:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1970691/posts?page=1

[bert]

That was a good piece by Rich Galen, but I value the opinion of Barone more then others.

I would like to see his real analysis. It will come, but it will be a while I guess.