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Good morning, everyone. Hank you all for being here this was labor intensive, everyone came to it with an open mind and remarkable set of ideas. I want to say thank you to all f you. You have both entered this boldprise with a spirit of passion and a spirit of ingenuity and a spirit that understands that this is the most serious stress test on our nations democracy perhaps in our history and the work of this Unity Commission is so critically important. Larry and jen, thank you so much for what u...

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 ...

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...

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 mi...

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 meet...

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 p...

I hope that going forward, the process is improved upon. The outreach regarding this meeting, i was one of many was cced on the meetings and nobody ever got back to us. I understand the language of inclusive the and participation. We finally received an email ,ess than 24 hours before nobody ever got back to me or anyone i know about the meeting. The policy of cracking what we preach. Now these recommendations are going to be going to the rules committee, and i would hope that we could improve u...

I came all the way from california to be here. I am sorry. I may have to leave in the middle of this but i do want to say, i certainly hope that Going Forward that this caucus that were all part of undertaking here, including ourselves as participants, is improved upon. I profess being very disappointed with the out reach regarding this meeting. I was one of many people im rsvpd to the meeting and no one got back us to. I understand all the language about participation and ncluesivity but sadly ...

Ok, we are Getting Started whether youre sitting or not. Thank you for a much. We are going to be moving to the amendments that were tabled yesterday. We are going to start basically in the order they are in the document. The first ones we will discuss are in the unpledged section, specifically in reference to number five, recommendation number five. I first ask if there are no objections, i would like to take this off the table, the discussion. I see no objections. Can we please put this up on ...

We are going to be moving to the amendments that were tabled yesterday. We are going to start basically in the order they are in the document. The first ones we will discuss are in the unpledged section, specifically in reference to number five, recommendation number five. I first ask if there are no objections, i would like to take this off the table, the discussion. I see no objections. Can we please put this up on the screen . Focused one recommendation number five, under the unpledged sectio...