Good morning, everyone. Thank you all for being here. I am jen omalley and im the chair and im joined by migrate friend, larry cohen, vice chairman of the commission and i call the meeting to order. I would like to first ask the members and those with us to join in the pledge of llegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and stice for all. Patrice you, i now ask o call the roll. Mr. Baker. Ms. Bower, ms. Flores, congresswoman fudge, ms. Harris,. R. Went, ms. Cliff miscohen. Ms. Lewis. Mr. Newport, mr. Neary. Mr. Roosevelt. Ms. Rue ease. Ms. Turner, mr. Weaver. Mr. Webb, mr. Rugby. Ms. Omalley. And mr. Cohen. We are missing a few Commission Members but we have a quorum. And i would like to start today by acknowledging chairman perez who is here and we are thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that, his leadership of the democrats and the national par
The Democratic Partys made changes to its rules and how it chooses Convention Delegates to the dnc Unity Reform Commission met in washington d. C. To consider changes that include reducing the number of superdelegates that can vote on the president ial nomination. Dnc chair tom perez gave the opening march the opening march of this meeting right, good morning everyone. Thank you all for being here. I serve as the chair and im joined by my friend larry cohen who is vice chair the commission and i hereby call the final meeting of the Reform Commission to order. I would like to first as the members and those with us to join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask you to call the roll. Thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] we are missing a few Commission Members but we certainly have a quorum and i wo
Joined by my friend larry cohen who is vice chair the commission and i hereby call the final meeting of the Reform Commission to order. I would like to first as the members and those with us to join for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I now ask you to call the roll. Thank you madam chair. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] we are missing a few Commission Members but we certainly have a quorum and i would like to start today by acknowledged in chairman perez who is here and we are very thankful for his participation. [applause] and more than that for his leadership of the Democrat National party so we are really glad to be here. Good morning everyone. Thank you. I want to start off by saying thank you for your hard work. This was a very important exercise it was laborintensive and came to it with an open mind and with a rem
The Democratic National committee is wrapping up its today. N washington, d. C. We will show you what happened during the meeting earlier today, which began with an audience member expressing her disappointment with the commission process. I came all the way from california to be here. I may have to leave in the middle of this. Thate that Going Forward the process we are undertaking here, including ourselves as participants, i profess being very disappointed with the outreach regarding this meeting. As one of many people [indiscernible] we finally received an email less than 48 hours before this meeting started to inform us and nobody has ever gotten back to me. Now that these recommendations are going to the rules committee, i would hope that we would improve upon the image that is out there now all over social media being talked about. For all the talk about wanting to reform and make this party or transparent, the exact opposite has happened. Im one of the coauthors of this autopsy
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