GOV DEAN: "You CANNOT Seat Someone If You Don't Have An Election That's Valid"

[kpete]

Dean: Dems should keep out Buchanan
By ANITA KUMAR and ADAM C. SMITH
Published December 7, 2006

This election is not valid. There are 18,000 people who may have voted and we don't know what happened to their votes, Dean said.

WASHINGTON - Republican Vern Buchanan might be the official winner in a messy Sarasota-area congressional race, but Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean says the Democratic-controlled Congress should not seat Buchanan without another election.

"Absolutely not," Dean said in a taped Political Connections interview scheduled to air Sunday on Bay News 9. "You cannot seat someone if you don't have an election that's valid.

"This election is not valid. There are 18,000 people who may have voted, and we don't know what happened to their votes," Dean said. "You can bet that if the Republicans were 500 votes short they'd be calling for a new election, and they'd be right."

On Wednesday, Democrat Christine Jennings said she will ask the U.S. House to take the extreme measure of conducting its own investigation into the election.

more at:
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/12/07/State/Dean__Dems_should_kee.shtml

[whistle]

1. DEMs, PLEASE DO NOT STOP AGITATING FOR THESE VOTES

....to be found or set up a new election in Sarasota-area congressional district!

[Kolesar]

19. We should be protesting every lame duck legislature in America

When the bored and uninformed reporters show up to cover obscure lame duck lawmaking, we should give them something real to write about.

[stellanoir]

2. woh . . .and "D'oh"

I'd love it if contested results regarding cruella's former seat exposed the whole issue of blatant though oft ignored FRAUD. Take it back to where it started ya know?

Divine irony at its finest truly.

K & R'd

[tularetom]

3. Well OK but James Carville says that Dean is making a mistake

by taking this position. :sarcasm:

[jobycom]

5. Did Carville say that, or is that a joke?

I see the sarcasm thingie, but I can't tell what part is sarcastic.

[tularetom]

15. The whole effing post is sarcasm

brought on mostly by my dislike of anything uttered or espoused by carville (not the least of which is Ms Carville).

[jobycom]

20. The post below mine thought you were serious. nt

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

6. That's Good Enough For Me.

If James is against it, then I immediately know my position.

Fuck you Carville. You Tool! You're no friend to the Democrats, so perhaps it's time for you to go away and screw your REPUB wife. At least she sticks by her party.

[xxqqqzme]

4. Go Howard

Hope he talked to Pelosi about this first and she is onboard. All you in this district - time to call & write and take to the streets.m You need a media uproar over this.

[twilight_sailing]

7. Please, Mr. Dean, fight the good fight.

Don't let anyone tell us that our votes don't matter.

[bullimiami]

8. my thought exactly. the new house has the power to keep the seat vacant

until there is a valid election.

[Land Shark]

9. The House or the state court will be the judge of that, Mr Dean

though Dean may well be correct, and the house can have final say in most details if it conducts a proper quasi-judicial inquiry.

[nashville_brook]

10. asking whether the election is "valid" seems so reasonable... makes me wonder...

when's the Supreme Court going to chime in?

[petgoat]

17. Right. What about the Equal Protection rights of the voters in

districts where the machines swallowed their votes?

[GreenTea]

11. Howard Dean is one Dem on top of need for change with the republican owned machines, ever hear Obama

or most other Dem's even mention electronic voting machines, so many Dems are oblivious to the problem and don't really believe there even is a problem - ignorant fucks!...Diebold, ES&S, etc. are one of the MAJOR issues facing the Democratic party...something needs to be done immediately.

Without true and accurate voting EVERYWHERE - nothing will really change.

Howard Dean is the Best!!

[jgraz]

12. Wonder Dean Powers .... ACTIVATE

Form of....an actual progressive Democrat!

[quiet.american]

13. Fab. :) n/t

[Zodiak]

16. I'll second that!

Shape of....a Democratic behemoth!

[stillcool]

14. GrayWarrior had pics up..

last week-end of people protesting in Sarasota...looks like he's taken them down, but it was a nice turn-out.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2852398

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. It's a bit surreal really, isn't it? Just one Democratic politician seems to see it; and it's

not rocket science, is it?