Sanders threatens floor fight at Democratic convention

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally in Louisville, Ky., May 3, 2016. Sanders and Hillary Clinton were in a tight battle for the Democratic presidential primary as votes were being counted in neighboring Indiana on Tuesday night. (Sam Hodgson/The New York Times)
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign rally in Louisville, Ky., May 3, 2016. Sanders and Hillary Clinton were in a tight battle for the Democratic presidential primary as votes were being counted in neighboring Indiana on Tuesday night. (Sam Hodgson/The New York Times)

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is threatening a floor fight over rules and platform planks at the party's summer convention if the Democratic National Committee stacks the committees with supporters of Hillary Clinton.

Sanders writes in a letter to Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz that the makeup of the standing committees should reflect the level of support that he and Clinton received in the primaries and caucuses.

He says many of his supporters have not been included and noted that Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy will be in charge of the convention's platform committee and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank will run the rules committee. He called both "aggressive attack surrogates" for Clinton.

Sanders said if the process is unfair, he'll challenge platform planks, electoral reform planks and rules changes.

Read Saturday's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

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