Democrats Threaten to Disenfranchise Florida
Democrat…has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? As if they believed in democracy!
Unless you don’t behave the way the party bosses want you to behave. Then, they’ll take away your “right to choose” your next presidential candidate!
WASHINGTON (AP) - Florida Democrats would forfeit their votes in selecting a presidential nominee unless they delay their state election by at least a week, the national party said in a stern action Saturday meant to discourage others from leapfrogging ahead to earlier dates.
The Florida party has 30 days to submit an alternative to its planned Jan. 29 primary or lose its 210 delegates to the nominating convention in Denver next summer.
The state party chairwoman, Karen Thurman, said she would confer with state officials about the ultimatum. “It’s going to be a difficult discussion,” she said, because Floridians are wary of having their votes taken away.
Elected officials in Florida have said they would consider legal action and a protest at the convention if the national party barred the state’s delegates.
In other words, we believe in your sacred right to vote…unless, of course, it threatens the power structure of the party bosses!
“I find your use of the word disenfranchisement to be an overstatement,” said committee member David McDonald, who is from Washington state.
Uh…I vote. You don’t count my vote. It’s as if my vote never existed, but that’s not disenfranchisement! But, I do have a bridge I can sell you!
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