Florida Re-Do Not Happening
Thu, 03/13/2008 - 1:33pm
Meetings today geared towards making the Florida mail-in re-vote happen ended on a sour note, and now it looks like that idea has been rejected.
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Not Dean's Nor The DNC's Fault
By Patrick M McLeod
Thu, 03/13/2008 - 1:49pm
I think it's worth mentioning here that this whole situation is not Howard Dean's fault. It's not the DNC's fault, either.
It's the fault of the Florida Democratic Party.
All of the folks taking to the airwaves today laying this at the feet of Howard Dean and/or the DNC need one simple reality check: The Florida Democratic Party broke the DNC's rules. Period. Full stop. End of story.
Don't hate on the DNC or its Chairman because of what the state Democratic Party chose to do.
Are you saying the H. Dean had nothing to do with the FL mess??
By unchainthedogs
Thu, 03/13/2008 - 2:15pm
Do the DNC rules say you can't move a State's primary? If so, does it say what the punishment is if a State breaks the rules or did Mr. Dean come up with the punishment for the sunshine State.
The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee Says You Can't
By Patrick M McLeod
Thu, 03/13/2008 - 3:02pm
The DNC made it very clear that any states who moved their primaries or caucuses up in the calendar without DNC approval would have sanctions leveled against them.
The DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee took a nearly unanimous vote on August 25, 2007 to strip Florida of all of its delegates because the Florida Democratic Party moved its primary up to January 29, 2008. August 25...five months before Florida voted.
In that same 30-to-1 vote to strip Florida of its delegates if it kept its January 29th primary, the Rules and Bylaws Committee gave the FDP 30 days to fix its noncompliant plant. (edit: that should be "noncompliant plan")
They did not fix it.
They bucked the DNC. They got sanctioned. They had a chance to fix it. They chose not to do so.
All of the Floridians complaining about being disenfranchised need to be working on ousting their state party leadership and getting people in there who won't leave them swinging in the breeze in 2010, not blaming Howard Dean and the DNC for their problems.