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Monique Faulkner
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« on: April 02, 2008, 11:05:22 am »

April 2, 2008
Florida Dems meeting with Dean
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
(CNN) — Florida’s Democratic leadership is meeting with national party chairman Howard Dean today in a bid to resolve their dispute over the seating of that state’s delegation at the presidential nominating convention in Denver.

The session, held Democratic National Committee headquarters, includes Dean, congressional Democrats like Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who backs Hillary Clinton, Rep. Robert Wexler, who supports Barack Obama, Sen. Bill Nelson and state party chair Karen Thurman.

The national party stripped Florida of its delegates last year, along with Michigan, when both states scheduled their primaries in January, in violation of DNC instructions. None of the major candidates campaigned there ahead of those votes.

The major presidential candidates all agreed not to campaign in the state in advance of the January 29 contest. More than 1.75 million voters – a state record – weighed in, and Hillary Clinton won a majority of the vote, but no delegates were awarded.

Florida’s Democrats had been weighing several options for a re-vote, including a possible mail-in primary, ahead of the DNC’s June 10 deadline – but two weeks ago, the state party announced that it would not hold a second primary, regardless of whether the cost was covered by outside contributors.


At the time, Wasserman Schultz, who had been staunchly opposed to a re-vote, told CNN then that “now it’s time for all the people involved in ensuring Florida’s delegation is seated to come together and make sure that happens.”

She also expressed a willingness to consider a proposal that would allow the full delegation to weigh in at the convention, but for each delegate to get just half a vote.

Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, rejected that proposal, which seemed to gain traction as prospects for a new contest grew more remote.

He told CNN’s Gloria Borger that the Illinois senator would like to “give Florida the opportunity to vote” – but not in a way that would change the overall outcome.

The Clinton campaign – which won in both Florida and Michigan, which faced the same penalty – has pushed for both states’ delegations to be seated, with spokesmen accusing the Obama team of looking to “disenfranchise” voters.
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