Pelosi won't allow convention fight

Pelosi predicted Wednesday that a presidential nominee will emerge in the week after the final Democratic primaries on June 3, but she said "I will step in" if there is no resolution by late June regarding the seating of delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states that defied party rules by holding early primaries.

"Because we cannot take this fight to the convention," she said. "It must be over before then." Full Story »

Posted by Erin Medlicott
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Topics: Presidential Election 2008, U.S. Congress, Democrats, Democratic Nomination, Congressional Leadership
Member Tags: Democratic presidential nomination, Democratic National Convention, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. San Francisco Chronicle, Michigan delegates, Florida delegates, Carla Marinucci, Senator Barack Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton, Susie Tompkins Buell, WomenCount
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Posted by: Posted by Erin Medlicott - May 28, 2008 - 9:36 PM PDT
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - May 29, 2008 - 8:15 AM PDT

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by Erin Medlicott - Oct. 1, 2008

The writer was present at the Chronicle editorial board meeting with Speaker Pelosi and got a good sense of the tone of Ms. Pelosi's statements as well as reporting her responses to the paper's Q&A session. But there were no contradictory views for comparison.

“She said the party committee will come up with a formula that is "fair and accepted by both campaigns,” perhaps allowing the states 50 percent of their ... More »

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