COUNT MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA AS CAST OR SPLIT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY
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DNC: YOU ARE WRONG NOT TO COUNT MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA EXACTLY AS CAST. YOU WILL SPLIT THIS PARTY WIDE OPEN. IF MY VOTE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE PRIMARY - IT WILL NOT BE GIVEN IN THE GENERAL.
YOU are wrong to punish people who DID NOT violate any rule. You should have punished the officials who violated the rules. They way you did this punishes the entire country because it has changed the dynames of an election and possibly the outcome. If Hillary Clinton loses because MIchigan and Florida did not count you have cheated millions of voters from all 50 states. You have effectively put in office another president that is not legitimate. You have played games with the votes worse than anything the democrats did.
Barack Obama chose not to run in Michigan. He purposely took his name off the ballot by affidavit so he has no real claim on votes there.
I believe the DNC is hiding behind the candidates by making both candidates responsible for agreeing on how to count both states. This is ridiculous.
It is also ridiculous to barter or manipulate the outcome of the two states. How is it right to change official results to meet the needs of the DNC to hand the win to Obama.
The Party will pay greatly for this - especially if voters from all over the country wake up to realize that your very unjust rule has cheated them out of their candidate.
YOU are wrong to punish people who DID NOT violate any rule. You should have punished the officials who violated the rules. They way you did this punishes the entire country because it has changed the dynames of an election and possibly the outcome. If Hillary Clinton loses because MIchigan and Florida did not count you have cheated millions of voters from all 50 states. You have effectively put in office another president that is not legitimate. You have played games with the votes worse than anything the democrats did.
Barack Obama chose not to run in Michigan. He purposely took his name off the ballot by affidavit so he has no real claim on votes there.
I believe the DNC is hiding behind the candidates by making both candidates responsible for agreeing on how to count both states. This is ridiculous.
It is also ridiculous to barter or manipulate the outcome of the two states. How is it right to change official results to meet the needs of the DNC to hand the win to Obama.
The Party will pay greatly for this - especially if voters from all over the country wake up to realize that your very unjust rule has cheated them out of their candidate.
Basically I was told that both candidates had to agree and Obama wasn't going to agree to anyting unless it was a 50/50 split. This is completely unfair to manipulate and change the results. Mark Brewer is our state committee chair and is also on the rules and bylaws committee that passed this most stupid rule that punishes people by throwing away their votes - even though those people did not violate the rules STUPID RULE.
Its his fault he wasn't on the ballot. He CHOSE not to run in Michigan. It's like Rudy Guiliani asking McCain for votes from the states he didn't run in and then wanting him to share enough votes to make him even. RIDICULOUS.
I also spoke with a representative of Levin's campaign who said that the only reason Levin pushed to move the date up was because he was tired of NH being the first primary - how absolutely ridiculous is this, I said to him. I cannot believe my vote will not count because of his ego. I refused to sign his petition and told his worker I will not vote for him in his reelection.
I have contacted Debbie Dingell by email several times to ask for her help with our petition to seat the delegates - she is our national committeeperson and did not even respond. hmmm.
I cannot speak to the situation in MI because I don't know all the specifics of how your date was moved. If I lived in Florida, though, I would make darn sure that I voted Jeremy Ring(D) out of office, replacing him with ANY capable Democratic opposition. Ring earned his right to exit politics early when he introduced that bill. NO excuse could suffice to save his butt if I was voting in his district.
From what I am told Levin was the big push behind it. He has tried for three presidential cycles to get it moved. He, and everyone else who voted to move it, knew they were risking our votes but they believed they would be counted by the convention.
What I do not think anyone thought was that they would actually make a difference.
It makes me sick how they are holding any decision on this until they see exactly what Barack Obama needs to win. I believe with my heart and soul that if these two states make a difference to Clinton they will not be seated.
This is such a misjustice and slap in the face to all democrats in this country to have our votes manipulated and traded.
The candidates were also innocent victims along with millions of voters in all 50 states who could lose their candidate.