On August 5, the Florida Democratic Party Executive Committee voted to ask the Florida legislature to move the state’s presidential primary from January 29 to February 5. The legislature will meet in September 2007 in special session.
If the Florida presidential primary is not moved, the national Democratic Party rules will punish the Florida Democratic Party by cutting its delegation to the national convention from 201 delegates to only 93 delegates. National Democratic rules forbid any state party from choosing its delegates earlier than February 5, except that Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina have exemptions.
Since Republicans control the Florida legislature, it is not likely the September 2007 legislative session will make the change.
Do you suppose the Florida Democratic Party could win the sympathy of an exemption from the national party if they ask their voters to boycott their own party primary in Florida?
This case does raise all kinds of serious questions of jurisdiction to regulate a political party. Is the Republican controlled Florida legislature spoiling for a fight to the U. S. Supreme Court?
It was pretty stupid for the Fl Dems to do this in the first place. They should have gotten a clue when the Rethugs were happy to help them hold the knife the Dems were holding to their own throats.
Morons.
I thought the RNC was also penalizing the Florida GOP for holding the primary on Jan 29th.
THE DNC TOOK THE APPROPRIATE ACTION AND SHOULD STICK TO IT. THEY SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THEM ALL AND SHOULD NOT BE ALLOW TO BE COUNTED AS I FEEL MY VOTE WAS NOT COUNTED CORRECTLY IN THE LAST ELECTION, THEREFORE, NOT COUNTING AT ALL IS A BETTER OPTION THAN CHEATING.
I feel like my party, the Democrates, that I have supported through thick and thin has abandoned me, the Florida voter. I didn’t vote for moving the primary. Personally, I believe the whole primary thing needs to be changed, drasticly. We are paying a fortune to elect idiots in both partys, and are forced to go through months of campaining. All Florida voters are now being screwed again, both democrates and republicans and we should not stand for it. Maybe we are should support an indepent candidate and tell both partys to go to hell. This state is in enough of a mess economicly without this too.