Posted on 06/14/2008 12:08:12 PM PDT by John Jorsett
Florida Democrats will gather Saturday night in Hollywood looking for unity after one of the most fractious primary seasons ever.
But just two weeks after Democrats thought they had mostly put the debacle over Florida's delegates behind them, party faithful are bickering over who will get to attend the national convention in Denver in August.
The back-and-forth was mostly conducted behind the scenes -- until party activist Jon Ausman sent a blast e-mail late Thursday featuring obscenity-laced excerpts of e-mails he received from Kirk Wagar, Barack Obama's finance chairman for Florida. Wagar's e-mails rip Ausman -- and the state's top Democrat, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, who had backed Hillary Clinton but supported Obama after he became the presumptive nominee.
The highlights of Wagar's e-mail: ``You [Ausman] f---ed us. We are dealing with it. You need to accept the fact that you f---ed us.''
And of Nelson: ``I am getting very sick of Nelson making a bad situation worse.''
Wagar promptly responded with an e-mail apologizing for the profanity but suggesting Ausman had used ''out of context snippets'' from ''ongoing and sometimes heated arguments'' the two had. He also said he had not maligned Nelson. He said Friday that he had ''made a mistake'' but hoped those who know him ``know my passion is for the right thing and not self-interest.''
At issue is the Obama campaign's desire to name some of its loyalists as delegates, replacing others who are committed to Obama but were picked by state party insiders.
Josh Earnest, spokesman for the campaign, said he expected any hard feelings to vanish before November, ``that a minor dispute over hotel rooms in Denver pales in comparison to the significance of the issues in dispute at this election.''
Obama's campaign plans to train some 400 volunteers this weekend in what it has said is one of the biggest mobilization efforts the state has seen; the Republican Party of Florida will be running a statewide voter registration drive this weekend, targeting, among others, Hispanics in South Florida.
The Democratic delegate spat comes as the party seeks to heal wounds that emerged between the Obama and Clinton camps over seating of the state's delegation. Two weeks ago, the Democratic National Committee agreed to seat the entire delegation -- with a half-vote for each -- at the convention. Clinton, who won the Florida primary, had pushed to seat all the delegates.
The state party announced that Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a fervent Clinton supporter who quickly endorsed Obama, would headline the party's Jefferson-Jackson dinner Saturday at the Westin Diplomat to ``help bring our party together once and for all.''
State Rep. Dan Gelber, a Miami Beach Democrat and Obama supporter, said he expects the dispute will be but a ``blip.''
''We're a highly charged party transitioning from a contentious primary to a general election,'' Gelber said. ``This is a blip that will be forgotten moments after it's written about.''
And Nelson brushed off the dispute, a spokesman said, calling it ``much ado about nothing.''
Kum-bai-yah, my Lord, kum-bai-yah ...
OC
More trash techniques from Barack Hussein Obama supporters.
Twit will not win the state of Florida, period.
Try to get some sleep thinking about the entire security apparatus of the United States in the hands of a terrorist sympathizer and the traitors he will appoint.
Typical Obama Jerks Excuse!:
You are a racist because You took my Rants out of context!
When is somebody going to tell Obamanation, Osama Bin Ladin’s Love Child, that Words have Meaning!
This is going to be hard to do. BHO has a bunch of Dem. outsiders on his potential team. They will reorder power in DC, and leave a big group of Clintonites marginalized.
Knowing how mature and professional we know those folks are,(/s) I think it can be safely said that there will be civil war within their party for years to come.
So far, no real olive branches have been seen from BHO. They know they don’t need the old party to win, and they want to be free from the luggage they bring.
aww....wheres teh lub?
UNDER THE BUS WITH THE REST OF THEM!
It's nothing new. He's been doing the exact same thing throughout his entire campaign for president....beginning in 2004.
I, for one, would ally with them if our goals could be made to coincide. You can never have too much firepower.
Maybe Obama can petition the Supreme Court to limit Florida's electoral college delegates to half votes.
I peeked in at DU during the primary debacle, and the Obamatrons were ruthless. They called Hillary every name in the book. Most of the Hillary supporters left the site from what I read because they got tired of the Obama supporters attitudes.
It's a “blip” like how Al Quaeda’s hatred of America is a “blip”
This fight Clinton/Obama fight is going on to November and long after that. The bad feelings and angst will be there even in in the 2012 elections.
Huurrrayy!
Headline:
Prosecutors used out of context snippets of killer's confession
Judge dismisses all charges against confessed murderer
Yikes! He’s gonna need a awfully big bus at this stage of the game! He’s thrown practically everybody he knows under it!
I still have a nice pair of duelling pistols in the gun safe.Maybe the jerks would like to settle this in that fine old Southern tradition.
It ain’t really bickering unless and until someone gets killed.
Love to see the N.A.G.s take on the blacks in a fight.
Sounds like FR and the Borderbots.
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