Never thought I'd be rooting for Pelosi to do anything!
Posted on 03/28/2008 6:55:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MIAMI -- A donor to the Democratic Party asked for a rebate out of frustration over the party's Florida delegate dilemma -- and he got it.
Federal records show that Paul Cejas has given six-figure sums to the Democratic National Committee for years, NBC 6's Nick Bogert reported.
Cejas asked for his last donation back. He said he was angry with the party, particularly party Chair Howard Dean, over the failure to resolve Florida's delegate dilemma.
"Frankly, he's dropped the ball, and I told him, 'You're going to go down in history as the worst chairman of the Democratic Party if you do not fix and seat the delegates of Florida,'" Cejas said.
Cejas, a longtime friend of former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton, was ambassador to Belgium during Clinton's presidency. Because he supports Hillary Clinton, he said he would prefer to have her Florida primary win count, but he feels that Dean should have engineered a do-over vote by now.
Cejas said he thinks the Obama campaign is not eager to have Florida count at all, but feels the current impasse is Dean's doing.
"The buck stops there," he said. "I challenge Howard Dean to come out and say, 'Paul Cejas, you're wrong and we're going to fix it, and we're going to count Florida.'"
Cejas conceded that Florida's moved-up primary broke party rules, but he said that since it was a Republican-dominated Legislature that did it, disenfranchising Democratic primary voters is a punishment that does not fit the crime.
Cejas's money-back demand made national headlines. Democrats have sent out subsequent appeals to donors, asking them to make up for an unnamed Miami donor's taking-back of his money.
"It kind of gives you the kind of mentality that perhaps Florida's not so important to the Democratic Party," Cejas said.
Dean is warning Democrats to tone down the intra-party sniping, fearing it will hurt the party's chances in November.
"The supporters should keep their mouths shut about this stuff on both sides because that is harmful to the potential victory of a Democrat," Dean told the Associated Press.
"He wants peace," Cejas said of Florida's delegate dilemma. "But he's the only one who can bring peace by making a decision."
Cejas said he will not cash the check from the party yet until he sees if Dean and the DNC resolve the delegate dilemma.
Cejas is another demonrat hack. Wonder how he really made his money?
http://www.nndb.com/people/925/000127544/
How do I get my money back? Is this just like the rebate?
Hillary, Peter Paul wants back $1.6 million.
I knew it,this is all the Republican's fault. Don't ya just love it all?
Long Live Operation Chaos!
Never thought I'd be rooting for Pelosi to do anything!
DEMOCRAT donor, not Democratic
I didn’t write the headline or the story, that would be someone at NBC 6.
Someone needs to produce a “made-for-television” movie about this entire Democratic Primary Season; hopefully before election day in November. No one could have written a fictional screenplay this doggone good.
Yearrrrrrgh!
Oh, the horror......poor Pauli.
I'm just curoius as to why this dillweed thinks it's Screamin' Dean's fault?
The DNC said, "Don't change your caucus / primary date!"
The State of Floriduh did.
The DNC said, "You suck, we hate you, you have now been disinfrenchfried!!!!!"
Where's the beef, Paul?
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Good post potlatch!
But what he didn't admit was that the early voting date bill was introduced BY A DEMOCRAT and the Democrat members of the Fla. legislature voted for it - UNANIMOUSLY!
I know you didn’t, I just hafta add that everytime I see a headline with Democratic instead of Democrat when it refers to the Democrat party. I found that they REALLY are touchy about that!
The enemy within (a mini PA Obama Clinton watergate)
Pittsburgh Tribune Review | salena zito
Posted on 03/29/2008 6:41:55 PM EDT by Salena Zito
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993755/posts
Edwards, who endorses Obama, got $7,500 from him
Star-Telegram (DFW) | 03-29-08 | Anna M. Tinsley
Posted on 03/29/2008 10:18:51 AM EDT by engrpat
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993591/posts
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