(CNSNews.com) – Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said that although the Democratic Party "wants to give every opportunity to grassroots activists… to participate" in its presidential nomination process, superdelegates "exist… to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don't have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists."
Wasserman-Schultz made the comments Thursday in response to a question by CNN's Jack Tapper on why Hillary Clinton garnered the same number of delegates in the New Hampshire primary as rival Bernie Sanders even though Sanders won 22 percent more of the vote.
STATE HOUSE — An amendment mirroring Gov. Charlie Baker's approach to charter school expansion failed in the Massachusetts Senate on a 5-30 vote Thursday afternoon.
Arguing instead for legislation tying charter school expansion to major increases in overall public education spending, Sen. Karen Spilka told her colleagues that a proposed ballot question on charters would cost $1.5 billion over six years and affect 4 percent of students in Massachusetts.
