Fuller Clark: DNC meeting was 'hard work'

WASHINGTON -- State Sen. Martha Fuller Clark (D-Portsmouth), who represents New Hampshire on the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee, said she was pleased with the results of their national televised meeting on Saturday, but that the committee's work was far from easy.

"I think that it was very difficult," said Clark in an interview.  "I think that in the end we did what we had to do and there was no perfect solution."

The Committee decided to reverse an earlier stance to not allow Florida and Michigan any delegates to the national convention to giving them half of the vote.

Clark has a long weekend working on the committee. On Friday night she met with members until 1:30am and the committee meeting started eight hours later Saturday morning. Sunday morning she is scheduled to appear on both CNN and C-SPAN.

Even though she was only member of New Hampshire on the committee she said she didn't want to respond to Michigan representatives who put down the primary.

"This meeting was not about New Hampshire," she said. "It was about Florida and Michigan."

Clark was largely quiet during the meeting though she did press former Michigan Gov. Jame Blanchard on why the committee should allocate delegates a certain way given that some 30,000 write-in votes were thrown out.

When it came time for the committee to vote itself, Clark drew some attention because she voted with both arms extended, not just one like everyone else. It wasn't that she was voting with enthusiasm. There was actually a good reason. She was voting for herself and for Sarah Swisher, of Iowa, who was attending her daughter's wedding.

Others from New Hampshire in the audience included New Hampshire Party Chairman Ray Buckley, the party's executive director Dave Scannell, and state Rep. Marcia Moody (D-Newmarket).