What we need is a suit by the voters who participated in the Florida Primary election on January 29, 2008. We are the injured parties. We had our votes stolen by the DNC and Howard Dean. I want mine to count!. I had nothing to do with the decision to set the primary date earlier than the DNC rules it should be. Whoever allowed this travesty to happen is the guilty party. Why not fine that party or parties? Don't punish me for somebody else's mistake. We had a valid election on !/29. Voters came out in unprecedented numbers. We made our choices for our presidential preferences. We do not need a "redo" election. We do not need a "mail-in" election which is prohibited by Fla. Stat. 101.6192 anyway. But we do need enough voters to join together and bring an action to compel the DNC to count our votes and seat our delegates!
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Nelson denied the claim that he's simply intent on delivering delegates to Clinton, whom he has backed. Noting that he didn't endorse Clinton until the evening of the Jan. 29 primary, he claims a long history of trying to settle this issue. "I was trying to last July, August and September to fix this. That's when I filed suit against Howard Dean and the DNC."
Since word leaked Thursday of a direct call by Nelson to Dean at the DNC, political junkies have been wondering about the potential backroom conflict. Nelson gave his version of the conversation to NEWSWEEK, saying: "I called him to explain that if our only option to avoid this train wreck is a do-over, that the taxpayers of Florida are not gonna pay another $18 million ... The state legislature is meeting as we speak, cutting children's health, education and so forth. What I suggested is the money was gonna have to come from somewhere else. Dean thought there were outside sources that could directly contribute to the Florida Democratic Party ... So I have conveyed all this to the state party chairman." The DNC confirmed Nelson's timeline.
Nelson continued: "What I explained to Gov. Dean was that he's got to recognize that he can't keep saying, 'They broke the rules and their votes are not gonna count.' That's not helpful … Obviously the Democratic nominee is going to need Florida and Michigan to win [the general election]."
While Nelson places blame for the scheduling snafu on the state Republicans (who passed the bill to move the primaries to January), he says they can't be prevailed upon to step in. "They're laughing up their sleeve right now, because they got Democrats all wound around the axle on this. Whether there should be [a state solution] or not, there isn't gonna be, with the state in such financial distress."
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