Sanders fails to oust Clinton backers from convention roles

Published 10:54 am Saturday, May 28, 2016

<span class="ABriefbody">WASHINGTON — Democratic officials have rejected Bernie Sanders’ request to remove two high-profile Hillary Clinton supporters from leadership positions at the party’s summer convention.</span>

<span class="ABriefbody">Sanders’ presidential campaign said in a letter Friday to the Democratic National Committee that Dannel Malloy, Connecticut’s governor, and Barney Frank, a former Massachusetts congressman, couldn’t be relied upon to perform their roles "fairly and capably while laboring under such deeply held bias."</span>

<span class="ABriefbody">Malloy is Platform Committee co-chairman. Frank is co-chairman of the Rules Committee.</span>

<span class="ABriefbody">Democratic officials responded to Sanders’ request on Saturday, saying in a letter that Malloy and Frank were elected under party rules and that Sanders wasn’t alleging any violations of that process.</span>

<span class="ABriefbody">The DNC says it reviewed the challenge, found it failed to meet the criteria and "we are compelled to dismiss it."</span>