LANSING, Mich. -- A top Michigan Democrat has broken ranks with state party leaders, saying a plan to split the state's national convention delegates 69-59 between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama is "fatally flawed."

Democratic National Committee member Joel Ferguson sent a letter Thursday to the co-chairs of the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee seeking to seat all of Michigan's delegates based on the results of the disputed Jan. 15 election.

Clinton won; Obama was not on the ballot.

Failing that, he said, the pledged delegates should get a half-vote each, and superdelegates should get a full vote.

Ferguson is a superdelegate pledged to Clinton.

(What the article fails to say is he'd like to see Hillary get all the delegates, and Obama none.)

A message seeking comment was left Thursday afternoon with state Democratic Chairman Mark Brewer.

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