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Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Ickes Reserves Right to Call for Nuclear Option

Harold M. Ickes, a senior adviser to Sen. Hillary Clinton, today said that her campaign was reserving the what amounts to their last best option, challenging the decision of the Rules and Bylaws Committee before the entire Democratic National Convention this summer in Denver.

“This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party,” he said. “We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.”

Ickes’ comment came just before the RBC passed a resolution (by a vote of 19-8) seating all of Michigan’s delegates and awarding each a 1/2 vote and passing unanimously a resolution to award Florida’s delegates 1/2 a vote as well.

Evidently, Ickes and some other Clinton supporters entered the meeting thinking there was actually a possibility that a “fair allocation” meant that Sen. Barack Obama should receive no delegates at all. In fact, reports say that Obama had the votes for a 50-50 split, but chose to accept a lesser split in the interest of party unity.

Chalk up another magnanimous decision on behalf of Sen. Obama and another selfish (and hopefully empty) threat by Sen. Clinton’s campaign. Hopefully the superdelegates can help stick a fork in this election on Tuesday so we can get on to the important battle against Sen. John McCain.

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