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 up been doing. Its impossible to overstate the importance of the work that you have been doing. His is i come to you both with a sense of remarkable sobriety given whats happening in washington and around the country in the era of this president and also a sense of optimism borne out of what weve een on the ground. You look at the chaos and carnage that we see every day from this administration and the stakes couldnt be higher. This tax bill that people like congresswoman fudge and others fought
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 and make amendments and vote. The key elements that we will be focusing on this afternoon, are recommendations that are focused in the following areas, the first is making the party more competitive in all regions of the country, the second is supporting and growing state parties and increasing grassroots participation. The third is operating in a manner that is open and transparent. And ourth is strengthening inclusive participatory culture at the d. N. C. Fifth, building on the great diverse q
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