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House Minority Leader John Boehner, chairman of this month's Republican Convention in St. Paul, charged the Californian with heading the party's platform committee, a job that will win him notice among Republican activists from around the country.
The elected leaders will serve on one of the three Convention Standing Committees - Credentials, Platform and Rules. Each Committee includes three Chairs, nine Vice Chairs and 25 PLEO members. The Committee Officers and PLEO members on each committee join the other 161 members selected by each state's Democratic Convention delegation. The Rules Committee, responsible for proposing the Permanent Rules for the Convention, adopting the proposed Convention agenda and making recommendations of permanent Convention officers, will meet in July, prior to the Convention.
With the Republican National Convention's platform committee convening in New York less than three weeks from now, no draft platform exists, no subcommittees have been named and no special lodging for committee members has been assigned. Rather than signifying sudden collapse of accustomed Republican efficiency, all this looks more like a coolly calculated plan. The suspicion has grown that President Bush's re-election strategists - Karl Rove and Karen Hughes - do not want the open debate over principles and policy that has characterized Republican platform-making for a generation. The carefully guarded Bush campaign game plan is to present delegates on the platform committee with an unpleasant surprise when they arrive in New York: a trimmed down document with virtually no time to deba...
At the Democratic convention NOW had two goals: ensuring passage of the ERA and equal representation, as in equal members of women and men, as delegates to future conventions. Our position was that because Jimmy Carter, the certain nominee, was facing no floor fight to get the nomination, he could choose platform planks and get the delegates to agree to them. They were, after all, on his side. A meeting with Carter was set up, including several hundred Democratic women from the women's caucus, and a handful of us from NOW, such as Ellie Smeal, then-chair of NOW's board, strategist Alice Cohan and myself. Carter told us how much he admired his mother, Miss Lillian, and his wife Rosalyn. The business about the wife and the mother was probably because he, like so many men in 1976, was not ...
... to the microphone during the platform committee hearings to make the case for equal representation...
Asked how the Michigan delegation should push the state's agenda at the convention, [Murphy] said it is not known how much politicking a delegation can do for its own state during the convention. You'll notice a lot of deals being cut, a lot of conversations being had," he said, adding that it is important to note that the state*s delegation includes a number of individuals with clout in the national Democratic Party, including Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, Rep. John Dingell, Rep. John Conyers and national Committee chair Virgie Rollins. Murphy doesn't believe any delegation will be coming to the convention with a big stick to demand its issues become part of the platform. Instead, he thinks the key is to have a have a unifying convention, and for a normal approach through the platfo...
Sen. John McGee, who chaired the platform committee at the convention in Sandpoint, said he's not sure it's the most appropriate idea, but it shows the Republican Party is a "big tent. [Wayne Hoffman] said he brought a plank to encourage early childhood education in the private sector and helped change the wording on public schools from "strengthen our public schools" to "improve our public school system." Also added: That does not necessarily mean spending more money on schools. On the absence of "God" in the Democratic platform, party executive director Jim Hansen said, "she's in there a lot... If you're feeling a little insecure about how your faith is then you have to keep mentioning it."
BOSTON -- U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-3, will present the party platform in a brief speech tonight, the first night of the Democratic National Convention. DeLauro was co-chairwoman of the platform drafting committee, which wrote the document after a series of public hearings around the country this spring and summer. I was excited to be able to serve as the chair of the platform committee and we worked very hard at it, and I'm very proud that they asked me to kick off the presentation," DeLauro said.
WASHINGTON, July 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie today announced the leadership of the Republican National Convention's 2004 Platform Committee. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will serve as chairman of the 2004 Platform Committee. U.S. Rep. Melissa Hart (R-Penn.) and Colorado Gov. Bill Owens will serve as co-chairs.
The platform committee of the Maine Democratic Party made sure Friday that the annual state convention will address whether to chastise the Bush administration for its handling of key issues, including the war in Iraq. The committee set the stage for a vigorous discussion by adding a two-pronged condemnation of President Bush to the proposed platform that will be adopted today before the two-day convention concludes.
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