Alexis Herman, co-chair of the committee, was Clinton's Labor Secretary.
I wonder if Hillary's worried about not winning Iowa or New Hamshire?
or New Hampshire for that matter.
But the effect of this new scheme will be to overweight the leftwing crackpots even more than they are now, because that's who the black and hispanic and feminista activists will support.
After 1968 the 'rats jiggered their convention and delegate selection setups to appease angry blacks like Julian Bond, and the result was to nominate radical George McGovern in 1972. This latest re-arranging of the deck chairs should have similarly amusing results in 2008.