Subject: RE: FW: BREAKING: DNC Vice Chair Says Maine Super Delegate Changes Are Not Allowed
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: "Wei, Shu-Yen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 14:54:06 -0700

Thanks for flagging this one.

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
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From: Wei, Shu-Yen
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:51 PM
To: PrimaryandCaucus_D
Subject: FW: FW: BREAKING: DNC Vice Chair Says Maine Super Delegate Changes Are Not Allowed

Another Maine reporter reached out to me about the same thing.
Just an FYI, I email him the same thing Katie wrote to the Press Herald, since it’s been cleared with our team here.

From: Katie Baker [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:32 PM
To: Wei, Shu-Yen
Subject: Fwd: FW: BREAKING: DNC Vice Chair Says Maine Super Delegate Changes Are Not Allowed

Hey, FYI.
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From: Katie Baker <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: FW: BREAKING: DNC Vice Chair Says Maine Super Delegate Changes Are Not Allowed
To: Kevin Miller <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for reaching out and for forwarding that email.
The Maine Democratic Party has confirmed with the Democratic National Committee that Rep. Russell's amendment<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwbbIv_uOtfjRExmcDlyUVpFYkE/view> will not put the Maine delegation at risk of being unseated at the 2016 convention.

The amendment sponsored by Rep. Diane Russell only encourages the unpledged delegates to "confer and voluntarily vote for presidential candidates at the national convention in the same relative proportion as Maine’s elected delegates" in 2016.
The portion of Rep. Russell's amendment that becomes binding in 2020 would require unpledged delegates to state their presidential candidate preference at the opening of the state convention, so that the chair of the party is empowered to re-allocate the remaining national delegates to proportionally reflect the outcome of the state's caucuses. That amendment, which will be incorporated into our delegate selection plan, would require approval by the DNC in 2019. We will work with the DNC at that time to ensure our plan is in compliance with DNC rules, which will be re-visited by the Democratic National Committee in 2018. Furthermore, the Russell amendment requires that Maine's representatives to the Democratic National Committee propose a DNC rule change that would “eliminate the existence of superdelegates, or require superdelegates in each state to vote in the same relative proportion as the elected delegates of the state they represent, or prohibit superdelegates from endorsing or publicly supporting a presidential candidate before all primaries and caucuses nationwide are completed.”

Let me know if you have any further questions.
Thanks,
Katie

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Miller <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

From: Nina McLaughlin [mailto:nina<mailto:nina>=[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>] On Behalf Of Nina McLaughlin
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 4:24 PM
To: Kevin Miller
Subject: BREAKING: DNC Vice Chair Says Maine Super Delegate Changes Are Not Allowed

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MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release: May 10, 2016
Contact: Nina McLaughlin (207) 622-6247<tel:%28207%29%20622-6247>, [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

BREAKING: DNC Vice Chair Says Maine Super Delegate Changes Are Not Allowed

This afternoon Representative Diane Russell posted a comment from DNC Vice Chair Raymond Buckley. The comment reads:

“Diane, I am sure someone explained to you that your amendment/resolution can’t actually bind delegates since no delegate to the national convention can be bound to vote for one candidate or another. Also, state parties do not have any authority over the automatic Unpledged Delegates (so called super delegates), only the Democratic National Committee has that responsibility. I think that the claim that your resolution/amendment (by the way, which is it? You are qoted using both terms and it can’t be both) before the Maine convention is misleading at best. Sincerely, Raymond Buckley, NHDP state chair, ASDC president, DNC vice chair, DNC rules committee member.”

Representative Russell responded to Mr. Buckley’s post, commenting on her screenshot:

“Dear Mr. Buckley,

I felt your comment deserved more attention so I've placed the screen shot here where everyone can see it. If my amendment to the rules for 2020 and resolution to our DNC members and so-called Super Delegates was not done in accordance to your specific preferences, perhaps since you are Vice Chair of the DNC and a member of the Rules Committee, you could use your influence to procure an invitation for me to join you on the Rules Committee where we can work together to amend the DNC rules and eliminate the Super Delegate system once and for all.

Sincerely,
~Rep. Diane Russell
Member, Working Class
Portland, Maine

Representative Russell’s amendment was passed at the Maine State Democrat’s Convention this past weekend. Since the amendment couldn’t have been passed without a majority vote it is important to ask, who will Maine Democrats support? Their state party, or the national establishment. As the story is still developing, we can only see.

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