Allow me to note some other points from that story:
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/aug/25/d ... egates-in/The reforms adopted also encourage states that hold presidential caucuses, run by state parties, to switch to primaries, administered by state and local election officials. They require caucuses, in-person meetings, to have some provision for absentee participation, citing barriers to participation ranging from military service to child care to disability. (*)
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In a letter to Perez, Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, made a similar argument, saying the proposal would "disenfranchise elected officials for no substantive reason and would create unnecessary competition between those elected and their constituents.""The thought that a member of Congress would have to compete with their constituents in an election to secure a first ballot vote on the party's nominee creates unnecessary friction between those elected and the people they are elected to serve," he wrote.
The proposal also drew criticism from a former interim DNC chair, Donna Brazile, in a bylaws committee meeting Friday.
"At a time when we're trying to figure out as a party if we're gonna disenfranchise those who are party leaders, party officials, party donors, party activists and [the] grassroots, I think this would just really kick the you-know-what out of us," said Brazile, who stepped in as DNC chair during the middle of the 2016 campaign after Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced out over evidence of DNC bias against Sanders.[snip][end]
I wonder why people are silent about opposition from the Congressional Black Caucus.
I am not.
(*) Good. This reform I support. Caucuses are often heralded as popular democracy in action, but the irony of how they often run and function means, actually, democracy is hijacked by elites.
Anyway, superdelegates were not eliminated. They just don't vote on the first ballot.