Posted on 02/13/2008 7:37:23 AM PST by IrishMike
WASHINGTON | A prominent civil rights leader has told the Democratic National Committee that refusing to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise both states' minority communities.
In a Feb. 8 letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, NAACP chairman Julian Bond expressed “great concern at the prospect that million of voters in Michigan and Florida could ultimately have their votes completely discounted.” Refusing to seat the states' delegations could remind voters of the “sordid history of racially discriminatory primaries,” he said.
The DNC penalized Michigan and Florida for moving their primaries to earlier dates in violation of party rules. Both states were stripped of their delegates, and the party's presidential candidates signed a pledge not to campaign in either state. Florida lost all 210 delegates, including its superdelegates; Michigan, 156.
Since then, facing the prospect of a drawn-out delegate battle with Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign has pushed hard for both states' delegations to be seated. Clinton won Florida's primary Jan. 29 and Michigan's Jan. 15, but was the only candidate to appear on the Michigan ballot after the other candidates removed their names.
In an interview, Bond said the NAACP had taken no position in the race between Clinton and Obama and would not endorse either candidate. He sent the letter on behalf of the voters in Michigan and especially Florida, where the Republican-controlled legislature and governor changed the state's primary date.
“It struck me as making the voters, including minority voters in Florida particularly, victims of the Republican legislature in Florida. I wanted to get Chairman Dean to find some way to rectify the situation,” Bond said.
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The Dems make the decision not to count those states yet it is still the fault of those mean Republicans. Amazing.
I would love to see the NAACP take the nomination away from Obama. (not that I am in favor of Hillary, mind you).
Let the games begin !!!
You know, with McCain as the Republican nominee, I really could see large groups of disgruntled Democrats staying home because and deciding that McCain isn’t so bad, for a Republican.
H I L L A R Y is desperate!
Hey Julian. Florida changed the date of the primaries. It had no control over what your Democrat Plantation Party did to "disenfranchise" minority voters by Herr Dean relegating Florida Democrat delegates to the trash heap.
You can take that up with Dean alone, dumbass.
Yes, it would be wonderful if the Clintonistas manage to steal the nomination with the superdelegates, the Florida delegates and the Michigan delegates!
And the lefty loons thought Bush “stole” the election in 2000.....they ain’t seen nothing yet.
and michigan isn’t exactly a republican state
Or else.
National Association for the Advancement of Clinton People?
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Excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!
Why wouldn’t he ask for a re-vote? He is clearly in the pocket of the Clintons.
Their desperation is showing.....and this would NEVER go over well with the populace.
There is no possible way this will end well for the dems. Clinton will make a powerplay that gets her the nomination but expose her for the ^$#$%^ she is.
In the VA Dem primary yesterday one of the exit poll questions was: If your candidate does not win the nomination, will you vote for the nominee? 39% of the Hillary voters said they’d vote for Obama. 16% of Obama’s voters said they would vote for Hillary.
She will lose in Nov. if she wins the nomination with her dirty tactics.
It is fascinating that many of the old-line black establishment are lining up behind Hillary against the first legitimate black candidate in history. Why? I think it’s because if Obama is elected, it will make the old-guard seem like the dinosaurs that they are. With a black president, how could they continue to say that America is the incurably racist society they claim it is? It will seriously undermine their race-baiting game.
LOL !!!
With a black president, how could they continue to say that America is the incurably racist society they claim it is? It will seriously undermine their race-baiting game.
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That’s it in a nut shell.
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