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[madfloridian]

The atmosphere is so toxic in Florida toward the chairman of the party. The state is being used as a wedge to get Hillary Clinton to the convention. Yes, I know McAuliffe said last week that it would be over mid June, but that is not what others are saying.

This has become typical of the circus surrounding Florida's delegates. It is like a joke gone bad, but none of the characters seem to realize they are tanking in credibility.

Victor DiMaio has filed yet another lawsuit against the DNC, this time claiming the group is prejudiced against white people in Florida.

Creative Loafing covers DiMaio's views and those of his lawyer, the chairman of the Democrats in the Tampa area.

DiMaio Lawsuit, Round 2

"DiMaio and Steinberg dispute the decision by the Howard Dean and the DNC to unseat the Florida Democratic delegation as punishment for holding its primary too early. Their lawsuit claims it violates the Equal Protection rights of Florida residents and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Civil Rights Act says no federally funded organization can discriminate based on race. What Steinberg and DiMaio discovered was that democratic primaries in Nevada and South Carolina were allowed to occur before the window of other primaries because of those states’ racial demographics, specifically African-Americans and Latinos.

“As a Democrat, I support affirmative action, so this is an uncomfortable position for me,” Steinberg said at the meeting. “I’m taking the position that the DNC is violating the Civil Rights Act because they tried to use affirmative action to establish diversity among the states that are running the presidential primary election. So this is an interesting dilemma for me and Mr. DiMaio.”

See, he says they are suing even though they are on the other side of the issue. Why would they do that? Where is the money coming from? Lawsuits cost money.

DiMaio spoke extensively on what he predicts the outcome of the 10 state primaries ahead to decide, predicting Clinton trumping Obama in the coming weeks, a prognostication that was met with skepticism by the crowd and even soft-pedaled by DiMaio himself.

“This is like an episode of Lost,” he said. “You’re going to have stay tuned because I have no earthly idea what’s going to happen.”

Here is more on the topic. They are really deadly serious.

Suing DNC for discriminating against white people in FL, using Rule 11 to get to the Supreme Court

"What an interesting turn of the worm. Sometime next week, we may have democrats suing democrats for carrying out a very democratic policy of advancing minorities. Steinberg and DiMaio acknowledge with a grin that their reverse racism accusation will ruffle feathers, but hope the conservative judiciary will be delighted to strike a blow against affirmative action and rule in their favor. Their only objective, they claim, is to see all of Florida's delegates seated based on the January 31st primary election."

They don't believe in their lawsuit. But they are going ahead with it.

I do believe my state will be used to get Hillary to the convention, it is a way to get her there.

I don't think I have ever seen a party chairman attacked not only by Clinton surrogates, not only by her major donors

BUT

but by Hillary Clinton herself in a major Florida paper.

"I don't think it's up to Sen. (Barack) Obama or me to dictate any resolution. I think it's up to the DNC to decide how to proceed, and I would hope that it would do so recognizing what's at stake,'' Clinton said in the interview late Sunday.

She says Obama does not want Florida's votes to count. She kept on in the interview.

So why didn't she speak up sooner about the need to count the votes of Florida Democrats, rather than wait until her campaign was in trouble after losses in Iowa and South Carolina?

"I was a little preoccupied,'' she said, laughing. "I was trying to stay alive, frankly."

.."The elected officials in Michigan were all united — let's revote. The Democratic National Committee decided to support a revote. The only person who didn't want to let people vote was Sen. Obama,'' Clinton responded.

"The cynical explanation is, no, Sen. Obama does not want people's votes to count. We're Democrats. I thought we believed in counting votes."

Just not true. The states refused the revote. The DNC offered it, the states said no.

A lawsuit that those bringing it don't believe in. Continued attacks on the party's chairman from the campaign. I don't believe I have ever seen this kind of intimidation toward a DNC chairman before. Boggles the mind...so many scenarios, so little time.