DNC votes against allowing 2020 candidates to participate in climate change

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Democratic National Committee members at their summer meeting on Saturday rejected a resolution that would have confused the Party's stance to bar presidential candidates from participating in single-issue or unsanctioned debates.

The language that was rejected -- inserted at the behest of climate change activists during a strongly contentiously Resolutions Committee meeting on Thursday -- said the DNC, "will continue to encourage candidates to participate in multi-candidate issue-specific forums with the candidates appearing on the same stage, engaging one another in discussion."

Democratic presidential candidates are barred from appearing together on stage outside of DNC-sanctioned debates.

The committee's approved language from Thursday "essentially lifted the ban on candidates being unable to appear together on a stage at a forum or a candidate gathering," Washington State Democratic Party Chair Tina Podlodowski, a leader in the effort, told CNN. DNC members defeated the move to lift such a ban Saturday in a 222-137 vote. There were multiple observers from both sides who monitored the vote count.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-national-committee-votes-against-allowing-2020-candidates-to-participate-in-climate-change-debate/ar-AAGhesi?li=BBnb7Kz&pfr=1

[left-of-center2012]

1. I may be wrong, but ...

I think the "multi-candidate forums" in the past have had one candidate at a time, one after the other?

[procon]

2. Foolishly shortsighted.

Politicians do not look good when they assume the ostrich position, it doesn't work when Republicans do it and it looks even more craven when Democrats hide from the facts

[TwilightZone]

3. They're all on board with climate change.

They're not hiding from anything. This assertion is ridiculous.