No matter what happens with the superdelegates this year, it’s unsettling to have a large bloc of party officials who are not answerable to the party’s electorate. “I certainly think their influence should be curtailed,” Hart says. In 1988 Jesse Jackson won the primary in Puerto Rico over Michael Dukakis. Yet a month later, Puerto Rico’s governor instructed his fifty-one delegates to back Dukakis. “This is clearly machine politics,” Jackson wrote then, “and should have nothing to do with the 1988 campaign.” The 2008 campaign has again exposed the undemocratic influence of the superdelegate elite. But just as the activists of ’68 pushed aside the party bosses, forty years later voters can demand that the party’s nominee reflect their choice.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/archive/not-so-superdelegates/
Day: March 5, 2020
Shortage of personal protective equipment endangering health workers worldwide
WHO calls on industry and governments to increase manufacturing by 40 per cent to meet rising global demand
The World Health Organization has warned that severe and mounting disruption to the global supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) – caused by rising demand, panic buying, hoarding and misuse – is putting lives at risk from the new coronavirus and other infectious diseases. Healthcare workers rely on personal protective equipment to protect themselves and their patients from being infected and infecting others.But shortages are leaving doctors, nurses and other frontline workers dangerously ill-equipped to care for COVID-19 patients, due to limited access to supplies such as gloves, medical masks, respirators, goggles, face shields, gowns, and aprons.
Michigan representative considers presidential run as Libertarian candidate
Amash would run as a Libertarian presidential candidate, but he says he would only do it if there was a path to victory for him in November.
— Read on www.kalb.com/content/news/Michigan-representative-considers-presidential-run-as-Libertarian-candidate-568506011.html
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