Posted on 05/28/2008 7:15:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
DNC: Fla., Mich. Can't Be Fully Restored By AP/NEDRA PICKLER
(WASHINGTON) — A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to seat some delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully restore the two states as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to party lawyers.
Democratic National Committee rules require that the two states lose at least half of their convention delegates for holding elections too early, the party's legal experts wrote in a 38-page memo.
The memo was sent late Tuesday to the 30 members of the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, which plans to meet Saturday at a Washington hotel. The committee is considering ways to include the two important general election battlegrounds at the nominating convention in August, and the staff analysis says seating half the delegates is "as far as it legally can" go.
Saturday's meeting is expected to draw a large crowd, with Clinton supporters among those encouraging a protest outside demanding that all the states' delegates be seated. Proponents of full reseating have mailed committee members Florida oranges and pairs of shoes to get their attention.
DNC officials are concerned about a potentially large turnout at the "Count Every Vote" rally outside the event and have asked the hotel staff to increase security to keep everyone safe. The DNC says the roughly 500 seats available to the public inside were taken within three or four minutes of becoming available online Tuesday.
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DNC: We have more important things to do than worry about voters in Florida and Michigan, like count the votes in Puerto Rico.
Lawsuit time...
Hmmmm. Maybe some freepers can show up outside this event in a “Count The Votes” demonstration.
Where’s the popcorn?
ROTFLMAO!
Count every vote!
Every vote should count!
We’ve been disenfranchised.
Beavis: “Fight! Fight! There’s gonna be a FIGHT, heh heh m heh heh heh”
too funny for words....
Gosh, disenfranchisement looks different when Obama does it. This sure was a bad time for HBO to show “Recount.”
Can someone post where and what time this meeting will occur? Thanks.
>> This sure was a bad time for HBO to show “Recount.”
ROFL!!! Good point!
Democratic voters got screwed by the Democratic leadership in those two states. The Party rules were in place. The Democratic leadership knowingly and purposefully violated the rules knowing what the consiquences would be, then they acted shocked, SHOCKED, that they were enforced.
Boo Hoo.
The Dem voters need to yank their leadership and put in new people.
Count all the votes!
(Putting on leftist hat just for fun) - No problemo... We're Democrats - we don't have to play by the rules...
Hillary’s ticket to the convention floor.
So, will they lose the Clinton half, or the O'bama half?
Stay tuned.
Right!
The idea of the movie was to get people, particularly Floridians, all het up again about votes 'not counting' = but the prime example in people's minds won't be election 2000, but primary 2008. Too sweet...
It will be a hot time in Denver with protests from those two states.
COUNT ALL THE VOTES!...................
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