Posted on 08/26/2007 1:52:13 PM PDT by Jean S
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) Saturday gave the Florida Democratic Party 30 days to submit a new plan for a primary or caucus or lose all of its delegates to the nominating convention.
Adopting a resolution offered by committeeman Ralph Dawson of New York, the DNC’s rules and bylaws committee all but ignored the pleas of the Florida party and voted almost unanimously to strip the state of all its delegates unless it offers a new plan that meets DNC rules.
The state ran afoul of the committee’s new primary rules when it decided to adhere to a new state law that moved the primary to Jan. 29, in violation of the DNC rule preventing unapproved states from holding a nominating contest before Feb. 5. The rules committee officially found the delegate selection plan Florida submitted to be in noncompliance Saturday when it adopted Dawson’s resolution.
Florida party representatives argued unsuccessfully that they should be given an exemption and not be punished because they had taken “provable, positive steps” to obey the rule, but they were unsuccessful because of the actions of a Republican controlled legislature and a Republican governor.
“We’re asking for mercy, not judgment,” Florida DNC member Jon Ausman told the committee.
The rules committee, however, was unmoved by the arguments of the Florida delegation and moved promptly to not only enforce its rules but to make them as harsh as possible.
Any state that moved its primary ahead of the Feb. 5 window automatically loses half of its delegates under the new rules.
Presidential candidates that campaign in a state in violation would lose any delegates they win in that state. But committee co-chairman Jim Roosevelt said after the vote that in this case, there would be “no sanction on the campaigns since there would be no delegates at stake.”
“It’s essentially a beauty contest or a straw poll,” committee co-chairwoman Alexis Herman told reporters.
Florida Democratic Party chairwoman Karen Thurman told reporters after the vote she would take the news back to the executive and central committees of the state party.
“I think it’s going to be a difficult discussion,” Thurman said.
Everyone involved said they are optimistic a solution can be found, and Thurman stated that the 30-day reprieve was the only thing to come out of the meeting that gives her hope.
In adopting the harsh penalties, the rules committee appeared to be sending a message to other state parties and legislatures such as Michigan, that any moves ahead of the Feb. 5 window would be met with stiff penalties and little to no leniency.
The Michigan legislature and state parties have in recent days appeared poised to move its primary to Jan. 15.
If Edwards manages to win Iowa, and Florida loses it’s delegates....wouldn’t that likely boost him into the presidental nomination?
It does seem that the DNC is heavily handicapping Hillary. Which I don’t mind at all...but this race will be extremely interesting. It’s hard to guess what will come of this.
The DNC does not run Florida. The Republican congress here passes the bills and the democrats and their little machinations can jump off of a bridge for all that we give a damn.
In other words, go play your little games, but don't expect us to care.
Its not like there are many dems in office here.
I’ve read a lot of bullsh*t here at times, but your posts rank right up there with the biggest of the steaming loads.
Unions control most inner city voting machines and deliver them with clockwork regularity, right to the point of precincts reporting 100 democrat, and have done so for a century.
Businesses control nothing of the sort because they are not here to promote a socialist state in America, they are here to do business. - Take a walk.
yeah, over and over and over and over...then do the dead ones and the criminal population.
If you are correct please explain the two terms that President Reagan served and the election and re-election of Geo.W.Bush.
I agree there is a stink but it is in your reasoning not the unions that represent less than ten per cent of the American work force.
You would be better served to place the blame for lost elections where the blame should lie, at the feed of disconnected, Belt Way Republicans who forgot who put them in office.
Florida Democrats WILL NOT be allowed to interfere with Hillary’s!! ascendency...
Too many Democrat Apparatchiks are depending on the Campaign skim for Mansion Payments and Private Jet fuel!
If Folks on the left had anything resembling a conscience, they’d realize how gullible, and how easily played they have been...
Remember the “Count Every Vote!!” nonsense from the 2000 Democrat Coup attempt?
Well, Dean has told Florida, “You Don’t NEED no Stinkin’ VOTE!!” if it interferes with the Master Plan of the Washington Democrat Establishment.
They have laid this plan CAREFULLY, for YEARS, spending MILLIONS to move the early primaries to easily controlled Democrat Machine states.
They did this to give Hillary!! easy early victories, and building an “inevitability” toward the nomination, preventing her from having to campaign “Left”, and exposing her TRUE beliefs to the Sheeple...
“I don’t have the confidence in the broad American electorate.”
90% of the Media donates to Democrats....
The New York Times Editorial Board calls ITSELF, “the Gay Mafia”...
The Voter Fraud will be utterly BREATHTAKING in 2008, and the amount of leftist lies and propoganda utterly astounding. We minimalize all of this at our own risk. (And that of our CHILDREN)
If the Democrats can get by with disenfranchising THIER OWN folks who won’t comply, Imagine what the Hillary MAchine intends to do to US, or anyone that dares stand against them?
Good plan to get your polidiot in office .....kick yer voter base in the jaw “before” the election........LOL !!
Here is the Hillary California playbook. Massive early absentee voting in Calif. on Jan 7-14 will overwhelm Iowa and then New Hampshire. http://www.snapdrive.net/files/484319/hillary_playbook_in_california.pdf
2008 Democratic National Convention Schedule of Events
7:00 pm ~ Opening flag burning
7:15 pm ~ Pledge of Allegiance to the U. N.
7:20 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
7:25 pm ~ Nonreligious prayer and worship with Jesse Jackson and Al
Sharpton
7:45 pm ~ Ceremonial tree hugging
7:55 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
8:00 pm ~ How I Invented the Internet - Al Gore
8:15 pm ~ Gay Wedding Planning - Barney Frank presiding
8:35 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
8:40 pm ~ Our Troops are War Criminals - John Kerry
9:00 pm ~ Memorial service for Saddam and his sons - Cindy Sheehan
and Susan Sarandon
10:00 pm ~ “Answering Machine Etiquette”- Alec Baldwin
11:00 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:05 pm ~ Collection for the Osama Bin Laden kidney transplant
fund - Barbra Streisand
11:15 pm ~ Free the Freedom Fighters from Guantanamo Bay — Sean Penn
11:30 pm ~ Oval Office Affairs - William Jefferson Clinton
11:45 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
11:50 pm ~ How George Bush Brought Down the World Trade Towers -
Howard Dean
12:15 am ~ “Truth in Broadcasting Award” - Presented to Dan Rather
by Michael Moore
12:25 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
12:30 am ~ Satellite address by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
12:45 am ~ Nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Nancy Pelosi
1:00 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
1:05 am ~ Coronation of Hillary Rodham Clinton
1:30 am ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast
1:35 am ~ Bill Clinton asks Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home
Sounds to me like somewhere there's a Florida Republican laughing his head off!
I’ll hold my breath waiting for someone to accuse them of disenfranchising voters...
I agree with you somewhat, however, political parties pay a price at the polls businesses get sued. What are the consequences for the union thugs?
BTW, union thugs are the reason I’m self employed. I never bought the idea that companies ‘owed’ me anything more than what I earned at the end of the week. Now, I hire people to do the work needed. I never GAVE anyone a job!
Your post was unwarrented. I think the comment was perfectly apropriate both allegorically and intellectually.
I get the feeling this wouldn't be happening in a reliably blue state.
Or, after accusing some Republicans of trying to disenfranchise some Floridians, all Democrats are now acting to disenfranchise all Floridians.
The DNC: count every vote, except when we say they don’t count.
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