Shorter Harold Ickes

We Clintonites will cheat as much as we have to.

We Clintonites will cheat as much as we have to.

Ickes, who in August voted as a member of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Commission not to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida as a penalty for violating the scheduling rules, now says they should be seated. And he points out that even if Clinton loses the race for elected (“pledged”) delegates, she might still control the Credentials Committee and be able to get those delegations seated.

Author: Mark Kleiman

Professor of Public Policy at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management and editor of the Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. Teaches about the methods of policy analysis about drug abuse control and crime control policy, working out the implications of two principles: that swift and certain sanctions don't have to be severe to be effective, and that well-designed threats usually don't have to be carried out. Books: Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know (with Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken) When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (Princeton, 2009; named one of the "books of the year" by The Economist Against Excess: Drug Policy for Results (Basic, 1993) Marijuana: Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control (Greenwood, 1989) UCLA Homepage Curriculum Vitae Contact: Markarkleiman-at-gmail.com