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Tatiana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-17-08 10:46 AM
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16. OK, so they were faced with the Republican bill.
Why didn't the FL Dems just vote NO?
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  -Sen. Ring (D-FL) sponsored effort to move FL primary date up: "I have absolutely no regrets." Emit  Feb-17-08 02:58 AM   #0 
  - And the Republicans are laughing at the way they played FL "Dems" for fools.  Tatiana   Feb-17-08 03:05 AM   #1 
  - Thank you  sandnsea   Feb-17-08 03:36 AM   #2 
  - You're welcome  Emit   Feb-17-08 03:49 AM   #3 
     - Clueless.  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 06:14 AM   #7 
        - Yep!  Little Star   Feb-17-08 07:57 AM   #10 
  - I don't live in FL, so madfloridian yell at me if I'm wrong but:  Political Heretic   Feb-17-08 04:06 AM   #4 
  - In your Ring pillory, you've failed to mention what Ring sponsored died and was never voted on.  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 05:47 AM   #5 
  - Thank you Maribelle  MonkeyFunk   Feb-17-08 06:17 AM   #8 
  - You're welcome, Monkey  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 06:35 AM   #9 
  - Howard Dean should not be blamed  WilyWondr   Feb-17-08 11:27 AM   #21 
     - I'm not blaming any one side  MonkeyFunk   Feb-17-08 02:19 PM   #33 
  - How did the Florida Democrats vote on the bill to move the primary up?  LiberalFighter   Feb-17-08 08:20 AM   #11 
  - The Democrats twice filed updates to HB 537 Page4 Line6 - trying to override the republican date  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 09:47 AM   #12 
     - The DNC had the floor transcripts where they goofed on purpose.  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 10:52 AM   #17 
     - Yes, Gelber and Cusack did  Emit   Feb-17-08 12:06 PM   #23 
  - Ah, Marco Rubio, speaker extraordinaire...he said the Democrats on board.  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 10:45 AM   #15 
  - OK, so they were faced with the Republican bill.  Tatiana   Feb-17-08 10:46 AM   #16 
  - Right.....they should have voted no. They voted 115 to 1.  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 10:56 AM   #19 
  - Your first link  Emit   Feb-17-08 11:13 AM   #20 
  - Sorry about the bad link.  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 12:50 PM   #27 
     - From the information I have seen, Ring wanted the earlier date from the get go  Emit   Feb-17-08 12:53 PM   #28 
     - HB 537 was passed as amended Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 1:24 PM  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 02:00 PM   #32 
        - And apparently Ring was pleased with that early date  Emit   Feb-17-08 02:36 PM   #36 
           - Straw man argument. Ring really had nothing to do with setting the date.  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 02:38 PM   #37 
              - Ring introduced the effing bill....he still stands by it.  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 02:59 PM   #40 
     - Did you see my post about how Gelber killed his own amendment with laughter  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 12:58 PM   #29 
  - Ring's original bill was S1010  Emit   Feb-17-08 12:04 PM   #22 
     - EXCELLENT RESPONSE. Unf-ingbelievable. Ring should be gone like yesterday.  Tatiana   Feb-17-08 12:18 PM   #25 
  - Your own Sierra Club letter lists sponsors of the bill. They are all GOP.  Yossariant   Feb-17-08 05:55 AM   #6 
  - Ring introduced one bill in the Senate. The final bill that passed was the GOP bill  Emit   Feb-17-08 10:40 AM   #13 
  - Oh my, Emit...now you are being attacked like they do to me.  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 10:42 AM   #14 
  - I see that, madfloridian  Emit   Feb-17-08 01:31 PM   #31 
  - Ring should lose his job  nomorewhopper   Feb-17-08 10:53 AM   #18 
  - Ring: “I hear that a lot, that I was duped by the Republicans. No one duped me.”  Emit   Feb-17-08 12:13 PM   #24 
  - No one duped any of them. Thanks for the thread.  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 12:26 PM   #26 
  - Do dino assholes ever have  zidzi   Feb-17-08 01:02 PM   #30 
  - It appears there may have been a small conspiracy behind the FL election?  kentuck   Feb-17-08 02:23 PM   #34 
     - Good find! What, do we have another clairvoyant?  Tatiana   Feb-17-08 02:29 PM   #35 
     - lol The details of The Small Conspiracy can be found detailed in the following book :  Maribelle   Feb-17-08 02:51 PM   #38 
        - That sounds like an attack on the OP. Is it?  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 02:57 PM   #39 
        - My OP consists of statements made by Ring in the context of the periods  Emit   Feb-17-08 04:16 PM   #41 
        - I linked to your post in my thread....  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 04:23 PM   #42 
        - During the 04 primary, this would have been considered off limits, Maribelle  madfloridian   Feb-17-08 04:25 PM   #43 
 

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