C-Span video of DNC Primary Commission from March.

[madfloridian]

This is the one from March. I think there was a later one, but I can't seem to find the right search term. I searched on Herman this time.

http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=herman&image1.x=26&image1.y=7

DNC Commission on Presidential Nominations
Speakers Elaine C. Kamarck, Lecturer in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; Thomas E. Mann, Senior Fellow and the W. Averell Harriman Chair at The Brookings Institution; Ronald Walters, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the University of Maryland; Lyn Utrect, Partner at Ryan, Phillips, Utrect and MacKinnon Law Firm; Alexis Herman, Former US Secretary of Labor; and Representative David Price (D-NC) talk about Democratic presidential nominations.
3/12/2005: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 55 min.

Here is the full Commission appointed by McAuliffe. It was picked in December 2004. Howard Dean does not appear at the meetings, I understand.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/dnc2008cal1204.html

[madfloridian]

1. Article about the May meeting in Chicago.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_2806902

"The Democratic National Committee has created a commission to see if changes in the primary calendar can help Democrats choose presidential candidates with greater nationwide appeal. At a meeting in Chicago in May, the commission heard three proposals to accomplish that, all involving the regional clustering of primaries.

The most compelling of these proposals came from a group called Democrats for the West. They backed a plan that had been endorsed last year by the bipartisan Western Governors' Association, calling for a simultaneous primary or caucus in the eight Mountain West states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Utah's Republican Gov. Mike Leavitt had pushed this idea hard in 2000.

The concept was given new life in 2004, when New Mexico's Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson persuaded the Western governors' group to endorse it.

Richardson himself could certainly benefit from a Western primary if he makes a bid - as expected - for the presidency in 2008. But as Richardson has clearly understood from the outset, a regional primary is too big and important an idea to be narrowly focused around the interest of any one person or party. Because moving primaries around on the calendar usually requires legislative action, a Western primary can be created only by a bipartisan effort across the region."

[madfloridian]

2. List of people who decide the primaries, appointed by Terry.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/dnc2008cal1204.html

Chosen in December 2004.

Commission on Presidential Nomination Timing and Scheduling
(Appointments by DNC Chairman Terrance R. McAuliffe)

Co-Chairs

Hon. Alexis Herman
Fmr. U.S. Secretary of Labor
Hon David Price
U.S. Representative, North Carolina
Members

Aida Alvarez
Fmr. Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Vida Benavides

Donna Brazile
DNC At-Large Memeber & Fmr. DNC Rules & Bylaws Cmte. Co-Chair

Hon. Michael Coleman
Mayor of Columbus, Ohio

Roxanne Conlin
Fmr. President, American Trial Lawyers Association

Jerry Crawford
Fmr. State Chair, Iowa State Party

Hon. Lois DeBerry
DNC At-Large Member & Tennessee House Speaker Pro Tempore

Debbie Dingell
Michigan Democratic National
Committeewoman

Maria Echaveste
DNC At-Large Member

Cuauhtemo "Temo" Figueroa
Administrator, AFSCME Council 18

Hartina Flournoy
DNC At-Large Member & Fmr. DNC Rules & Bylaws Cmte. Co-Chair

Donald Fowler
DNC At-Large Member &
Fmr. DNC Chair

Jehmu Greene
President, Rock the Vote

Linda Honold
Chair, Wisconsin State Party

Harold Ickes
DNC At-Large Member

Carol Khare
Vice Chair, South Carolina State Party &
Co-Chair, DNC Rules & Bylaws Cmte.

Hon. Carl Levin
U.S. Senator, Michigan

Hon. Blanche Lincoln
U.S. Senator, Arkansas

Bill Lynch
Fmr. DNC Vice Chair

Hon. Kendrick Meek
U.S. Representative, Florida

Steve Murphy

Spencer Overton
Associate Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School

Jim Pederson
Chair, Arizona State Party

Hon. Ed Rendell
Governor of Pennsylvania

James Roosevelt, Jr.
DNC At-Large Member & Co-Chair, DNCRules and Bylaws Cmte.

Delores Sibonga
Fmr. Seattle City Council

Hon. Jeanne Shaheen
Fmr. Gov. of New Hampshire

Hon. Terry Shumaker
Fmr. Ambassador to Trinidad & Exec. Dir., New Hampshire Education Association

Hon. Kathleen Sebelius
Governor of Kansas

Mike Stratton

Hon. Hilda Solis
U.S. Representative, California

Susan Swecker
Chair, DNC Southern Caucus

John Sweeney
President, AFL-CIO

Hon. Art Torres
Chair, California State Party

Ed Turlington

Hon. Jennifer Veiga
Colorado State Senate

Josh Wachs
DNC Chief Operating Officer