Honestly the only fair thing they could do is divide those delegates evenly between HillBama. Those who voted for Hillary would squeal like pigs but that’s tough noogies for them. After all they’re the ones who voted for the woman who thought she could cheat her way to victory.
Nice of the AP to take notice...
"Disenfranchised": A word used by Democrats which means "we didn't get our way."
“Ickes explained that his different position essentially is due to the different hats he wears as both a DNC member and a Clinton adviser in charge of delegate counting. Clinton won the primary vote in Michigan and Florida, and now she wants those votes to count.”
This is classic Clintons.
Shamelessly admitting a gross conflict of interest in the matter...
Democrats is as Democrat does. Gotta hold a snake like Ickys real close the the head, or he’ll turn and bite ya.
D-E-S-P-A-R-A-T-I-O-N
23 minutes ago. Hi, Harold. Enjoying Free Republic?
"So I told Obama he better stay up on the damn porch and keep his mouth shut if he knows what's good for him."
If they allow the Mich. and Fl. votes to stand then the DNC will be disenfranchising those Dems who did not vote because they knew the votes would not count. plus Sickes knows if there were a re-vote that Osama would clean the Beast’s clock and sink her for good. I love a good RATFIGHT...pass that dang popcorn will ya?
Sure, whatever you say.
Paging Al Sharpton
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...before acknowledging moments later that he had favored the sanctions. Ickes explained that his different position essentially is due to the different hats he wears as both a DNC member and a Clinton adviser in charge of delegate counting. Clinton won the primary vote in Michigan and Florida, and now she wants those votes to count. "There's been no change," Ickes said. "I was not acting as an agent of Mrs. Clinton. We had promulgated rules and those rules said the timing provision ... provides for certain sanctions, automatic sanctions as a matter of fact, if a state such as Michigan or Florida violates those timing provisions. With respect to the stripping, I voted as a member of the Democratic National Committee. Those were our rules and I felt I had an obligation to enforce them," he said....he concluded, "There's been no change, just a complete reversal of my earlier view. Get over it. Move on. Where's the beef?"
Sharpton clarified this issue as far as Michigan is concerned: since the state had been blackballed for getting out of step with the dnc rules, Obama didn’t even register for the primaries there. Any delegates for clinton from that state would be a rigged outcome at best!
A replay of alBore’s stealing the Florida votes 2000!!!
Harold Ickes wants it both ways.