The local delegation will be led by Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, a leader of Clinton’s NY campaign team, along with her husband John F.X. Mannion.
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McNesby, president of the city’s Lodge 5 Fraternal Order of Police, said in a statement Wednesday that he and other union members were “shocked and saddened by the planned choice of speakers” at the DNC, including the mothers of Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, who will speak along with Bill Clinton Tuesday.
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The four-day convention, which starts Monday in Philadelphia, offers the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee a chance to win over voters skeptical about her integrity, doubts exacerbated by findings of an Federal Bureau of Investigation probe into her email practices and a week of prime-time pounding during the just-ended Republican convention. “I think people will come around to being unified”.
“I look forward to the opportunity to address the delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next week”, Senator Casey said.
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At the convention, delegates also will adopt the official Democratic Party platform and the rules and procedures that will guide the nomination process for presidential candidates in the next election cycle.
“Bernie told us past year that he was taking this all the way to the top”, Kruel said.
She said after the last convention, serving as the state’s party chair, and her husband as a delegate, this year will be “a bit more relaxing, at least for us, anyway”.
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“I was not involved in politics at all before I heard about Bernie Sanders”, Kruel said. A sizable group of pro-Sanders supporters, who organized via social media, plan to converge for large demonstrations at the convention. “We know that Sanders did very well in states that were open primaries, and the reason he did so was he was able to pull in the independent votes”. Our message of hope and being stronger together as a nation will have more resonance with voters. Elizabeth Warren, seemed to cast doubt that she will emerge as Clinton’s running mate – a move that could disappoint the party’s progressives and strain efforts to unify the party behind Clinton.
