The Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting meeting was a resounding success, equipping members with the insights and messaging needed to drive electoral victories! The DNC met in Minneapolis on August 25-27, heard from Governor Time Walz , Senator Amy Klobuchar and others, and visited the Minnesota State Fair. It was a great opportunity to get together with 440 Democratic activists from around the country and talk about the threats posed to our government and our democracy. Numerous members expressed concern and support of the City of Washington DC and encouragement for the Virginia races this fall. The meeting was cut short by the tragic and heart-breaking shooting, 10 minutes away from the meeting, but an abbreviated session adopted the Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) and the Resolutions Committee Reports (below)
The newly-appointed RBC has some returning members (including Co-Chairs Jim Roosevelt and Minyon Moore) (and me) and a number of new members. The Committee’s size has increased from 31 to 49 members. Shyam Raman, formerly the Democratic Party Executive Director, is the new Executive Director of the DNC’s (newly reorganized) Office Secretary and Party Affairs. The RBC will meet in September and begin a discussion of the 2028 national convention delegate selection process, but this meeting focused on other matters.
The RBC adopted (with some modifications) a reform package submitted by DNC Chair Ken Martin. One proposal would have incorporated the automatic delegate national convention voting process into the DNC Charter. In 2020 and 2024, the convention call provided that automatic delegates (Governors, members of Congress, DNC members) could vote for president on the first ballot only if it would not affect the result, but could vote on subsequent ballots. The RBC voted to direct that the 2028 convention call contain the same provisions.
The RBC and DNC adopted Charter and Bylaws changes to require a neutrality policy for DNC officers and staff, increase transparency for the DNC budget process through the Budget Review and Oversight Committee, provide that diversity and regional caucuses can directly name 22 of the 75 at-large DNC members and limit the number of At-Large members on standing committees, while setting minimum numbers for regular and State Chair/Vice Chair members, add the immediate past DNC Chair and Democratic elected official group chairs to the DNC and/or the Executive Committee, and exclude the President of Association of State Democratic Chairs from equal division calculations. A proposal to clarify the line of succession should the DNC Chair position become vacant was referred to the RBC’s Charter and Bylaws working group.
DNC RBC Report 8.2025 (248.7 KiB, 96 hits)
DNC Resolutions 8.2025 (1.1 MiB, 113 hits)