Craig Crawford’s Trail Mix: Florida Snub Endangers Democrats

[babylonsister]

http://www.cqpolitics.com/2007/10/craig_crawfords_trail_mix_flor_3.html

Craig Crawford’s Trail Mix: Florida Snub Endangers Democrats
By Craig Crawford | 11:15 AM; Oct. 16, 2007 | Email This Article

The Republican Party of Florida is wasting no time taking full advantage of the bizarre meltdown that is preventing Democratic presidential candidates from campaigning in the nation’s biggest swing state. Florida’s GOP will be hosting their party’s White House hopefuls in Orlando on Sunday for a debate to be nationally televised on the Fox News Channel.

Meanwhile, the Democratic contenders pledged to ignore the state because Florida’s Jan. 29 presidential primary violates Democratic National Committee rules allowing only approved states to schedule their balloting before Feb. 5. But, while Florida Republicans are also in technical violation of party rules, they face less strenuous regulations and their candidates are not forbidden to campaign.

Democratic candidates are skipping their party’s state convention next week and will not even talk to Florida journalists traveling out of state, as St. Petersburg Times Political Editor Adam Smith reports today about his rebuffed efforts to get interviews in New Hampshire. Come November, Democrats could sorely regret keeping the Sunshine State in the dark.

[madfloridian]

1. I guess most people know how I feel about that. Florida Democrats are guilty

of so much...of spreading lies about Dean and the DNC, of not being honest about their role in it.

We will no longer work with the party here as long as Bill Nelson is in charge.

Proof. Vindication. Both Florida parties did it for "relevance."
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/1459

[opihimoimoi]

2. The PUB TROLLs have infiltrated the DEM Party....The GOP lurkers/spies/brown shirts/DINOs/etc

are taking its toll