Here is what Nancy Pelosi said today about the Florida problem. She says it was not their fault, they deserve empathy. She says the delegates will be seated.
If the speaker says it in public, then nothing I say on forums matters at all.
Pelosi says not Florida's faultHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today the ultimate decision about whether Florida’s delegates will be seated at the Democratic National Convention will be up to the party’s presidential nominee, and she hinted what most Floridians have been saying: No nominee would refuse to seat Florida’s delegates.
“Let’s just talk reality. That will be determined by the presidential nominee,” Pelosi told reporters at a luncheon sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
..."Pelosi, who as Speaker will be honorary chairman of the convention, said the Democratic National Committee is the ruling authority now over choosing delegations, but the ultimate authority is the convention itself and the presidential nominee."
..." Pelosi also said the imbroglio over the primary isn’t the fault of Florida Democrats, who are the ones being sanctioned.
“Let’s be clear about what happened in Florida. The Republican legislature changed the date of the election there and also put a tax issue on the ballot that the Democrats just could not walk away from,” she said. “It wasn’t Florida Democrats who said they wanted to push earlier.”
The only problem with that is that the Florida Democrats were right on board with it since at least March of 2006, by their own admission.
"Florida Democrats are all for it," Mark Bubriski, spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party, said at the time.Nobody realized it, but the storm began gathering in late March 2006. New Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, a Miami Republican, visited Washington-based Florida reporters and touted a plan to boost Florida's influence in picking presidential nominees by moving the primary earlier than March.
"With all due respect to New Hampshire and Iowa, nowhere are you going to be on a national stage like Florida," Rubio said at the time. "You're going to get questions about Israel, Latin America, immigration. It's the old South, it's Latin, it's Midwestern, it's rural and urban."
Rubio already had Democrats on board.
"Florida Democrats are all for it," Mark Bubriski, spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party, said at the time.
But one can not keep fighting when the Speaker of the House says your state was not at fault, can one?
I feel more discouraged than ever. I watched the coverage of his visits here today, I read the print coverage. That kind of coverage, almost ridicule, is not deserved.
It was allowed by my state party, in fact it was encouraged by them from the start. That kind of media can not be fought. And I don't think I can work any longer with a state party that allows lies to become reality.
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