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Related: About this forumDemocrats Finalize Exceptionally Progressive Party Platform
Source: Associated Press
Democrats Finalize Exceptionally Progressive Party Platform
By MARYALICE PARKS - Jul 10, 2016, 10:22 AM ET
The Democratic Party is on track to ratify what is arguably its most progressive policy agenda in modern history, after the committee tasked with writing the platform document finished its final round of amendments and votes overnight.
The platform is expected to be formally adopted at the partys national convention in Philadelphia at the end of the month.
While the document is nonbinding, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been laser-focused on it since the primary season wrapped up and has kept some of his top staffers on board to fight for the inclusion of his ideas. The Sanders campaign views the platform as tangible evidence that his campaign's efforts moved the party to the left and they hope the document will excite their fans and serve as leverage for lobbying policy details in next Congress and administration.
The document - a formal declaration of the party's positions - includes language on breaking up "too-big-to fail" banks; reinstating a new version of the Glass-Steagall Act, which required that commercial banking and securities activities be separated; abolishing the death penalty; and fighting for a Constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizen's United case, which barred the government from restricting political spending by nonprofit corporations.
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By MARYALICE PARKS - Jul 10, 2016, 10:22 AM ET
The Democratic Party is on track to ratify what is arguably its most progressive policy agenda in modern history, after the committee tasked with writing the platform document finished its final round of amendments and votes overnight.
The platform is expected to be formally adopted at the partys national convention in Philadelphia at the end of the month.
While the document is nonbinding, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has been laser-focused on it since the primary season wrapped up and has kept some of his top staffers on board to fight for the inclusion of his ideas. The Sanders campaign views the platform as tangible evidence that his campaign's efforts moved the party to the left and they hope the document will excite their fans and serve as leverage for lobbying policy details in next Congress and administration.
The document - a formal declaration of the party's positions - includes language on breaking up "too-big-to fail" banks; reinstating a new version of the Glass-Steagall Act, which required that commercial banking and securities activities be separated; abolishing the death penalty; and fighting for a Constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizen's United case, which barred the government from restricting political spending by nonprofit corporations.
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Democrats Finalize Exceptionally Progressive Party Platform (Original Post)
Eugene
Jul 2016
OP
there was a time when a Democratic platform would not have been labeled "exceptionally"
hobbit709
Jul 2016
#3
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)1. The platform is even better
...than that article says.
Regarding marijuana, that article quotes the platform as saying "reasoned pathway to future legislation" but the last word in that phrase in the platform is actually "legalization."
w4rma
(31,700 posts)2. Super plus good. What kind of headline is that? (nt)
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)3. there was a time when a Democratic platform would not have been labeled "exceptionally"
progressive. It would have been progressive to start with.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)4. The vision and muscle of two great candidates got us here.
Let's celebrate them, and urge our nominee to keep focus in the years ahead.
And demand even better from Dems at every level of government.