To: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair - DNC; U.S. Representative (D-FL)
Demand Democratic National Convention Leader - "STOP using unfair Super Delegate system to contro...
Dear DNC Chairwoman Wasserman,
As former Campaign Co-chair for Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, you already know that the Democratic nominee for President of the U.S. is NOT decided entirely by popular vote, OR by the caucus method many states use...or even a combination of these methods! Rather, about roughly 15%, and growing, of the nomination power, since roughly 1984, now lies with "Super Delegates" who answer to no one.
Astonishingly, these "Super Delegates" typically consist of democrats in the upper echelons of establishment power, the same establishment that has historically traveled through the revolving door between Wall Street, Big Money and our government; who have big Super Pac's, and who receive campaign money from unlimited and unknown sources now possible through The Supreme Court's 'Citizen United' decision.
Therefore, even if a presidential candidate wins an overwhelming majority of popular vote or state convention caucus delegates, as Bernie Sanders did recently in NH, they can still lose or tie (which just happened in NH) the state party delegates entirely due to the use of these completely unfair and non-democratic "Super Delegates" , many of who are committed to a candidate even before the state primaries begin! This makes a mockery of and weakens the entire Democratic Party and opens the nomination process up to the same corruption that has led us to where we are today.
Representative Wasserman, we, the undersigned, ask you to PLEASE use your influence as the DNC Chair to STOP this "Establishment Only" use of Super Delegates to supersede the American voting populace and unduly control the nomination of the President of the United States!
Absent that, it leaves little other choice than to actively campaign to de-fund the DNC and any and all "Super Delegates", the use of which does NOT represent democracy or fair play or a government "Of the people, by the people and for the people" in the United States.
We can and must do better.
Thank you in advance.
See:
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/10/466283748/how-hillary-clinton-is-actually-winning-in-n-h-even-though-she-lost-big
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz [See 'Controversy' section in particular]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_superdelegates,_2016,
https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_National_Convention,_2016
As former Campaign Co-chair for Hillary Clinton's unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, you already know that the Democratic nominee for President of the U.S. is NOT decided entirely by popular vote, OR by the caucus method many states use...or even a combination of these methods! Rather, about roughly 15%, and growing, of the nomination power, since roughly 1984, now lies with "Super Delegates" who answer to no one.
Astonishingly, these "Super Delegates" typically consist of democrats in the upper echelons of establishment power, the same establishment that has historically traveled through the revolving door between Wall Street, Big Money and our government; who have big Super Pac's, and who receive campaign money from unlimited and unknown sources now possible through The Supreme Court's 'Citizen United' decision.
Therefore, even if a presidential candidate wins an overwhelming majority of popular vote or state convention caucus delegates, as Bernie Sanders did recently in NH, they can still lose or tie (which just happened in NH) the state party delegates entirely due to the use of these completely unfair and non-democratic "Super Delegates" , many of who are committed to a candidate even before the state primaries begin! This makes a mockery of and weakens the entire Democratic Party and opens the nomination process up to the same corruption that has led us to where we are today.
Representative Wasserman, we, the undersigned, ask you to PLEASE use your influence as the DNC Chair to STOP this "Establishment Only" use of Super Delegates to supersede the American voting populace and unduly control the nomination of the President of the United States!
Absent that, it leaves little other choice than to actively campaign to de-fund the DNC and any and all "Super Delegates", the use of which does NOT represent democracy or fair play or a government "Of the people, by the people and for the people" in the United States.
We can and must do better.
Thank you in advance.
See:
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/10/466283748/how-hillary-clinton-is-actually-winning-in-n-h-even-though-she-lost-big
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Wasserman_Schultz [See 'Controversy' section in particular]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Democratic_Party_superdelegates,_2016,
https://ballotpedia.org/Democratic_National_Convention,_2016
Why is this important?
This petition is about returning to a truly "representative" government, and doing it NOW! Establishment power got into the "10%" by stacking the deck against the populace of America and continues to rig the entire system towards an ever-growing income, influence and standard of living inequality. This needs to stop before a 2nd American Revolution is needed.