All know,t, as we this is not a conventional convention. And as much as we would have loved to host you in person, i am proud the Democratic Party in the city of milwaukee have made the health of our residents our number one priority. Unlike the president , we have covid19 ar hoax. Unlike the president , we have never made fun of face masks. And unlike the president , we have never belittled her Public Health experts. We understand that our Public Health experts. We understand why we cant be together, and we hope you do too, and as our party comes together virtually to nominate joe biden as our next president , we are showing the country we are nominating a leader who isnt afraid to make tough choices or to work with Health Experts come and not against them, to address this pandemic experts, and not against them, to address his pandemic. Milwaukee is special. I look forward to the day when you are all able to come expense are beautiful lakefront, our historic neighborhoods, and above a
This is not a conventional convention. And as much as we would have loved to host you in person, i am proud the Democratic Party in the city of milwaukee have made the health of our residents our number one priority. Unlike the president , we have covid19 ar hoax. Unlike the president , we have never made fun of face masks. And unlike the president , we have never belittled her Public Health experts. We understand that our Public Health experts. We understand why we cant be together, and we hope you do too, and as our party comes together virtually to nominate joe biden as our next president , we are showing the country we are nominating a leader who isnt afraid to make tough choices or to work with Health Experts come and not against them, to address this pandemic experts, and not against them, to address his pandemic. Milwaukee is special. I look forward to the day when you are all able to come expense are beautiful lakefront, our historic neighborhoods, and above all, our diverse, h
Good morning. Welcome everyone. It is good to be back again. Welcome to all our guests. Thank you for joining us today. The rules and Bylaws Committee meeting. We appreciate participation for the committee, the party, throughout this process. Client from the district of columbia along with my cochair Jim Roosevelt from the commonwealth of massachusetts. We serve as the cochairs rules and Bylaws Committee. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. Went to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I will note turn over to my cochair Jim Roosevelt. Thank you. Before we begin, we want to note it is been just over a year since the dnc passed the final version of the delegate selection rules september 10, 2022. On this occasion we want to share our gratitude with the committee for being the most transparent process in history. As you know our mee
We are going to get started. We do have a quorum. Thanks to everyone for taking a break and coming back with us. We are going to continue as we have spent the morning going through the next section, which is party reform. Party reform is a big section and obviously covers a lot of topics, so i would like to highlight the key areas. And then we are going to be voting and amending, amending and then voting each section. So instead of going through everything, we will go through section by section and make amendments and vote. The key elements that we will be focusing on this afternoon, are recommendations that are focused in the following areas, the first is making the party more competitive in all regions of the country, the second is supporting and growing state parties and increasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. And ourth is strengthening inclusive participatory culture at the d. N. C. Fifth, building on the great diverse q
Those delegates who are in category three will be allocated similar to category two as follows. The dnc would announce the noegation of category three later than five days after the last nominating contest the allocated the pledged delegates. If there are insufficient in category three candidates, alternate delegates would be elevated to provide the needed president ial preferences. Once the dnc has achieved the requisite number of supporters for each candidate, the dnc seven collect a written president ial preference from each candidate and delegate as applicable. The dnc shall make public the identity of each category three delegate and any alternates as applicable, and the candidate for which they have submitted a president ial preference. If the states chair or the dnc determines there is still an insufficient number of category two or three delegates respectively, supporting candidates proportionately, after attending to allocate alternate delegates, the states whichdnc will deter