A power grab by party hacks

David agrees with Bill Galvin that rules adopted by the Democratic State Committee last night to make it harder for candidates to get on statewide primary ballots and to shrink the number of delegates to the state convention are a power grab by party hacks:

.. Tightening that rule will only make it harder for "outsider" candidates to compete, and will thereby shut out more voices who want to shake the party out of its "business as usual" mindset. ...

SCO understands the need to reduce the overall convention delegate count - 6,257 is a lot for a small state - but is annoyed that among those exempt from cuts are un-elected party officials:

... [T]aking away spots from people elected in local caucuses -- the people on the ground actually doing the footwork to build the party -- and giving them to unelected party officials really ticks me off. ...