Posted on 03/21/2008 8:57:48 AM PDT by NRG1973
ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee over the party's decision to strip Florida of its delegates to its national convention. But today's decision by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gives the challengers an opening to revisit the lawsuit and carry on the legal challenge.
Victor DiMaio, a Democratic Party activist from Tampa, filed the lawsuit in 2007. He accused the party of disenfranchising Florida's Democratic voters by barring them from having their say in choosing their party's nominee.
The Democratic National Commitee argued the party has the right to set its own rules and not seat delegates who refuse to follow them.
It’s my party and I’ll whine if I want too, Whine if I want to.
You would whine too if it happened to you!......
I’ll bet they wish they could have filed this in the Florida courts where the “EVERY VOTE COUNTS” argument trumped, not political party rules, but Florida state law.
What goes around comes around!
Wouldn't it be better to say, "Their chickens have come home to roost"?
Is it just me or do Democrats have a horrible time trying to figure out how to vote, maybe if they stop chewing gum when they are in the booth? Maybe have them watch a training video each year? Oh wait, they have Super Delegates so I guess the average Joe doesn’t really need to vote in the first place. BWAAAHAHAHAHA
Dems in disarray. Delicious!
Isn't that always the case?
The Dems seem to employ the lawyer Daggett theory of any issue they don’t like.
“She draws him like a gun!”
Smells like 2000 election all over again. I can still Algore: “Count... the votes!”
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