More than 30 pages in length, the final draft th
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Posted On: 07/14/2016 7:03:34 PM
More than 30 pages in length, the final draft that was adopted by the Platform Drafting Committee includes a range of issues previously agreed upon by members of the Platform Committee and were therefore not part of the mark-up discussion. Issues already included in the draft and not discussed include: ending the era of mass incarceration, strengthening unions, support for the Equal Rights Amendment, prohibiting Pay for delay which keeps generic prescription drugs out of the market, drug reimportation and Medicare negotiation, expanding treatment and de-criminalizing drug and alcohol addiction, universal voter registration at age 18, support for programs to improve community – police relations, reproductive justice, gun violence prevention, ending systemic racism, non-discrimination for all LGBT Americans, cracking down on for-profit schools who engage in deceptive marketing, fraud and other illegal practices, opposition to any effort to privatize the VA; continue work to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, opposing drilling in the Arctic ocean or the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, repudiating the use of torture, closing Guantanamo Bay, increasing the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and advancing principled leadership to ensure that war is always the last resort, to name just a few.
The Platform Drafting Committee includes appointments by the Clinton and Sanders campaigns, and was announced on May 23, 2016 by Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida). In addition to Rep. Cummings, members are: Hon. Howard Berman, former Member of Congress (D-California); Paul Booth, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); Carol Browner, former EPA Administrator; U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota); U.S. Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Illinois); U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-California); Bill McKibben, Author and Environmentalist; Deborah Parker, former Chairman, Tulalip Tribe (Washington State); State Rep. Alicia Reece (D-Ohio); Bonnie Schaefer, Business Owner; Ambassador Wendy Sherman, Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Harvard; Neera Tanden, Center for American Progress; Dr. Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary; and James Zogby, Arab-American Institute. In addition, the Clinton campaign’s Senior Policy Advisor Maya Harris and the Sanders campaign’s Policy Director Warren Gunnels represent their respective campaigns as official, non-voting members of the Platform Drafting Committee.
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