That's how you minimalize the role of someone who is trying to give all the states back their voice in the party....instead of just the 18 or 20 courted for years.
This is how you keep change from happening. You get bloggers on board with you, they make sure that the DNC with Dean as chair is not defended. You have lunch with bloggers, you hire them....and if anyone questions who is working for whom...you ban them from further posting.
The silence has been deafening in defense of the DNC and party discipline. The silence was even louder when I posted that Florida was sending mail to stop donations to the DNC. Really loud silence. The bloggers all know, they have been told.
I care about the DNC and standing up for it because there is a chance it could accomplish a major rebuilding in the states that have been neglected for years.
I often thought the primaries were too frontloaded. I knew they were not being done in the best way. I just never thought that party discipline being imposed would be used as a big joke by so many. They added two more diverse states in the pre-window, but a Florida senator called them rogue terrorist states.
I never really supposed they would matter here to me that much this time anyway. It matters because of the arrogance, and the lies Florida has told about the DNC and Dean.
Florida sowed the seeds of a propaganda war against the DNC.They could have kept their delegates if they had fought to keep the date at February 5th. They worked hand in hand with the GOP, and then lied to the DNC...not a good thing as the DNC rules committee had the floor transcripts.
Publicly, these campaigns say they hope Florida resolves its dispute with the DNC. Privately, they admit that if Florida has few or no delegates, they are unlikely to compete. That means that Hillary Clinton will face enormous expectations to win the state solidly. Unless she decides to scale down her activities in the state, too.
So, if the state party is only concerned about being seated at the convention, then the RBC's penalty doesn't matter. But if the state wants to play a role in determining the nominee, then the RBC’s penalty matters a lot. The two interests are in conflict."
It matters because I appear to be the only one online saying obeying the rules is important.
The committee set up by McAuliffe in a deal made with Carl Levin in 2003 made the rules, the 447 members including Florida approved the rules.
Carl Levin and Terry McAuliffe made a deal about primaries in 2004.The commission came into existence as part of a bargain between former DNC chairman Terence R. McAuliffe and Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.). Levin has long agitated against what he calls the privileged position of Iowa and New Hampshire, which hold the first caucus and first primary every four years. During the 2004 presidential campaign cycle, McAuliffe bought peace with Levin by promising to appoint a commission after the election if the senator would agree not to try to blow up the calendar for that year.
This blog at Huffington Post rather disturbs me. It is telling how all the candidates are getting around the rules. Again.....
it infers the DNC's discipline is wrong yet advocates for all the others breaking rules. Something is wrong with that picture. Florida's Shadow Campaign Features Spousal SupportSpouses of the Democratic candidates - with their better-halves signatories to a DNC-induced pledge not to campaign in the Sunshine State - are now the latest weapons in running a "shadow campaign."
Most of the candidates agree the DNC mandate that the state holds the primary after Feb. 5 is ridiculous. Insofar as fund-raising is involved no campaign rallies or headquarters are to be visible. And almost every Florida elected official calls the DNC action - a threat not to seat the state's delegates - ludicrous.
Say that to yourself again. Campaign message discipline admired...party discipline ludicrous. Wrap your head about that.
And, now, the latest surrogates to come to Florida are the spouses. From what we can learn, there is no objection to an Aspiring First Lady or First Gentleman to attend events, book signings, receptions, pass out bumper stickers and yard signs, to be interviewed by the Sunshine State media or to making news himself or herself.
Aspiring First Gentleman/ former President Bill Clinton has been especially visible in interviews and at receptions. He even made state-wide front pages in the media when he announced that Florida was getting a new solar power plant. The announcement was made by Clinton - with Republican Gov, Charlie Crist and Florida Power & Light 's chief executive Lew Hay at his side -- at the beginning of the Clinton Global Initiative Conference in New York Thursday, but its focus was clearly toward the Florida media who scooped up the announcement on its "clean energy program" with major stories and editorials. No presidential politics was mentioned, but the visibility for the Clinton name was as total as the promise to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
It's all a big joke to everyone. I guess because I live here, and see the haughty attitudes, feel the anger toward us for speaking out against what Florida did.
It's all a big joke to most at Democratic forums as well.
Discipline good for candidates who continue to find ways around the rules.
Discipline bad for the party committee which provides the states with resources they did not have before.
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Yes, I am angry, and both hubby and I are hurt badly by this.
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