Clinton Camp Taking Hard-Line Stance On Fla., Mich., Delegates

Thu, May 22, 2008 - 11:56 AM

WASHINGTON – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign says it will look to Florida and Michigan Democrats “for guidance” on what she should do if appeals to the national party to seat both states full delegation are rejected next week.

At the same time, Clinton campaign advisor Harold Ickes said in a conference call this morning with reporters that the New York senator will not settle for a compromise solution – such as seating half the delegates in Florida.

Obama has said he would consider such a compromise.

The Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws panel is scheduled on May 31 to reconsider its decision from last fall on whether to keep the Florida and Michigan delegates banished from the convention.

Ickes, himself a member of the rules committee, said the Clinton campaign has not ruled out taking its battle all the way to the Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee, if anything less than a full seating of both states’ delegates is decided next week.

-- Billy House