Feb 06 2008
Write the DNC — FL and MI Must Not Count!
From where I’m sitting, it’s looking increasingly likely that Barack Obama will soon overtake Hillary Clinton in total delegates and stay up. He has the momentum, the movement, the money and the rest of the schedule favors him as well. That being said, the Clintons will not surrender this nomination without a helluva fight. I can all but guarantee that they will try to get the disqualified delegates of Florida and Michigan to count before the nomination is decided. We cannot allow that bullshit to happen.
Personally, I feel like I’ve had two presidential elections stolen from me, and I will not suffer that fate a third time. That’s why we are writing the Democratic National Committee imploring them to keep the rules it imposed on Florida and Michigan, and not seat delegates until after a nominee has been selected. To join us in this cause and write the DNC, click here.
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Don’t forget. There is the below petition I created that has garnered over 450+ signatures in only a week! Spread the word:
** http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Give-Us-Fairness **
The petition reads:
Campaign to Retain a Fair Nomination Process
To: Senator Hillary Clinton (CC: Democratic National Committee)
From: Concerned Americans for a Fair Nomination Process
We, the undersigned, are concerned Americans and have been dismayed to learn recently that your campaign has chosen to push to change the rules while the Democratic nominating process is already underway.
We were shocked to learn that your campaign is advocating for the seating of Michigan and Florida delegates after the Democratic National Committee stripped both states of their delegates in response to each state’s decision to move up their primary date.
As Josh Marshall noted, it is inappropriate to “change the rules in midstream to favor one candidate or another.” As Joe Gandelman points out, you yourself made that very argument months ago.
We are concerned that your attempt to seat delegates from states in which you and your opponents explicitly pledged to not campaign will have disastrous implications for the Democratic Party and the Democratic nomination process. As Ezra Klein warns, “This is the sort of decision that has the potential to tear the party apart.”
As a result, we strongly urge you, in the interest of the Democratic Party and the millions of Americans who have a strong interest in avoiding a fractious, divisive Democratic National Convention, to abide by the rules set down months ago and explicitly agreed to by your campaign and abandon your push to have the Michigan and Florida delegates seated in the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Concerned Americans for a Fair Nomination Process
There are millions of Democrats in Michigan and Florida who want to have their vote counted.
At a minimum they should be given a chance to re-cast their vote. It’s not fair to silence them just because Obama didn’t get to campaign there, or because Clinton agreed not to.
We can’t disenfranchise our own party members! One way or another their vote needs to be counted.
Listen, I used to live in Florida, so it’s not like I’m not sympathetic. But, rules are rules. You break them, you pay the consequences.
My main thing is that the state wasn’t informed properly as well when they made their votes. No campaigning was allowed, and I think it is ridiculous to count votes from somewhere where candidates couldn’t even campaign.
What I think is a decent solution is having caucuses down the road for both Michigan and Florida. Otherwise, they can expect hell from the Obama campaign, its lawyers and millions of Americans.
Florida already stole one election, do you really want that state to steal another one?
Write the DNC — FL and MI Must Not Count!
WHAT????????????????
This doesn’t sound very Democratic to me.
EVERY VOTE SHOULD COUNT!
I think most Americans want every vote to count.
Don’t you?
Lynn,
You are obviously unfamiliar with the situation. What isn’t very Democratic is Florida and Michigan illegally moving their primaries up. That is why they got penalized and stripped of all delegates.
All the Democratic candidates agreed to this and none campaigned there. Now that Hillary Clinton is behind she wants those votes counted? Nobody knew Barack Obama in Florida and he wasn’t even on the Michigan ballot. You call that Democratic? WHAT????????
I want Florida and Michigan to have their say, but that will either have to happen with new contests that are actually fair and approved by the DNC, or their delegates will be seated after the nomination has been decided.
Democracies cannot exist without rules, and those two states broke them. I think all Americans votes should count, but only when they and their respective states play by the rules. It’s unfair to residents of those states, but they should be mad at their states — not the DNC.
I don’t see how this doesn’t make sense, so, either you are uninformed or and HRC supporter. Either that or someone from one of those states offering up angry jibberish.