"Florida Democrats are all for it"...March 2006. All for the early primary that far ahead.

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"Florida Democrats are all for it"...March 2006 Florida Dem spokesman about early primary vote.

"Florida Democrats are all for it," Mark Bubriski, spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party, said at the time. (The time was March 2006)

Yet even though it is more and more established that the Florida Democrats were ok with the idea, that they did not fight back....there are articles printed daily without that truth in them, articles that turn the DNC and its chairman into a caricature.

It is getting to so many of us here, and the leadership goes on with the righteous lawsuits. It is turning many away from active participation in the state.

Here is an example from today, talking points just from the Florida party side.

Florida Democrats make federal case out of presidential primary

The lawsuit argues that the Democratic Party's sanctions against Florida violate basic rights protected by the U.S. Constitution and the federal Voting Rights Act. In effect, the right to vote supersedes a political party's right to enforce internal rules for a primary election.

The two pols did the right thing. The national party had it coming.

It was a rather obtuse Democratic National Party, led by chairman Howard Dean, that imposed sanctions on the Sunshine State after the Florida Legislature changed the date of the presidential primary to late January. The fact that the primary date change came as part of a larger elections reform package, or that it was a fait accompli in a Republican-controlled legislature didn't matter.

It also apparently didn't mean much to the party that Florida officials tried to work out a compromise that would accommodate both the party and those states yearning for an earlier spot in the process to select a presidential nominee.

Implying the "obtuseness" of the national party. Not presenting both sides. Poor and biased journalism. It works, and it is hurting all of us here.

It was not a "fait accompli" of the Republicans, the Democrats worked with them.

The Democrats here have apparently, it is now coming out, been on board with the Republicans here since at least spring of last year. They were not against the vote to move the primary ahead, and they understood the consequences.

"Florida Democrats are all for it," Mark Bubriski, spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party, said in March 2006

Rubio already had Democrats on board.

"Florida Democrats are all for it," Mark Bubriski, spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party, said at the time. (The time was March 2006)

So now there are at least two lawsuits against Howard Dean and the DNC, with no fair coverage here at all.

In fact from the very first the Florida party used the media to put all the blame on the national party.

"We are quite concerned that Florida Democrats are going to lose their right to vote," Nelson said. "And of all states, we have the sensitivity of this because of what we have gone through."

.."The state's congressional delegation also sent a letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean threatening a voting rights investigation in response to sanctions. However, national Democratic officials insist there is no legal basis to force the party to seat delegates in violation of its rules, and Nelson could not say what law the DNC would be violating or where the case could be pursued."

Florida sowed the seeds of a propaganda war against the DNC.

They voted 115 to 1 to move the primary ahead. Fighting back would have allowed them to keep the delegates.

From the link above which quotes Terry McAuliffe's book, "What a party"...he did some fighting over the last primary.

"Expletives were flying. The head of the Democratic National Committee was having it out with Sen. Carl Levin because Michigan wanted to crash the rarefied club of early presidential primary states.

Move your primary too early, Terry McAuliffe warned, and Michigan will lose half its delegates to the 2004 Democratic convention.

"The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television," McAuliffe vowed. "I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules."

Nobody sued McAuliffe, did they? But two lawsuits against Dean and the DNC (Bill Nelson, Alcee Hastings, and a Tampa activist who vows it is only the "first bite of the apple")

It was ok when McAuliffe instilled party discipline. But now it is not ok when Howard Dean is doing it. And he is being sued.

I wonder why that is.

(And to those wondering how long I plan to post about this? The answer is as long as it takes to get people to tell the truth.)