Reply #66: Clinton is playing by all the rules. There is false outrage once again. [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

The decision for what state delegates can be seated, according to the rules, is made by all of the unchallenged delegates to the convention. This is a question that will be put before all the delegates to the Sumnmer convention and every Democratic candidate will be asked how they will ask their pledged delegates to respond.

Most eveyone has always assumed that the Florida delegates will get seated, to do otherwise would create a huge negative live fracus at the convention when they arrive. It would hurt our chances to win Florida in the 2008 General Election if we sent all of those delegated home packing from the nomination convention. Hillary Clinton is saying now what most Democratic Candidate will probably agree to later. Another case of false outrage.

The real teeth applied to bringing Florida back into line with their Primary scheduling has always been the 4 State Agreement with the candidates whereby no candidate campaign activity inside Florida was to take place before Florida voted on an un DNC sanctioned primary date. That boycott has been painful inside Florida since it completely undercut the rational for moving their primary date up; which was to win Florida increased attention prior to their vote by making it an early Primary state.

All the major Democratic candidates have honored that pledge untill Obama recently and unilaterally violated it with a national ad pruchase that included ads that now appear in over 6 million Florida households.