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| William E. Gibson, who has been covering Washington for the Sun-Sentinel for nearly 25 years, writes on politics and policies that affect South Floridians. ... |
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 --- 86 days ago http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/dcblog/2008/04/florida_demonstrato
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A few hundred Florida Democrats endured 18-hour bus rides to come to Washington this morning to demand that their state’s presidential primary votes be counted.
``Count our votes!’’ they chanted outside their party’s national headquarters.
It was an odd demonstration, motivated largely by anger from the 2000 election that brought George W. Bush to the White House. It wasn’t always clear whether the Floridians were directing their anger at Bush, at the national party, at the ghosts of 2000 or all of the above.
Their main mission was to urge the national party to seat the state’s delegates at the nominating convention in August. The party has stripped Florida of delegates as punishment for holding a Jan. 29 primary against party rules.
Today’s rally, led by the League of United Latin American Citizens, took place on the same spot where party chairman Howard Dean vowed early this month to make every effort to seat Florida delegates.
Dean, while trying to make peace with the biggest swing state in the election, said any arrangement for seating delegates would have be fair to candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
DNC workers handed out bottles of water and flyers to the demonstrators. Leaders of the rally were invited to come inside afterwards to meet with party staff. ``This is family,’’ remarked DNC spokesman Luis Miranda, who hails from Broward County.
``Howard Dean promised that we would be ... |
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