Madfloridian's Journal - More %$#*&% begging from the Hillary campaign to seat FL delegates.

On one hand they say they will follow the rules, on the other hand they say they want Florida delegates choosing the nominee. There is a difference between "seating" the delegates and letting them decide the nominee. I don't give a hoot and a holler if they seat them at the convention, but if Hillary is allowed to seat Florida delegates it will split us.

Here is the chairman of her Florida campaign writing another letter to Howard Dean to please reinstate the delegates immediately. Yes, they are asking for them to be part of the nominating process. They are not letting up.

Hastings to Dean: reinstate our delegates

In a letter to Dean, Hastings — who joined with Sen. Bill Nelson last year in unsuccessfully suing the party over its plans to reject the Florida delegation — warned that “if Florida’s Democratic voters continue to believe that the Democratic Party does not care about their vote, using Florida only as a fundraising ATM and not as a resource of ideas, then they may not only stay home in November, but many may change their party affiliations and some could actively campaign against us.”

..."You have publicly stated that our nominee will have the ultimate decision to reinstate Florida’s delegates at the National Convention. Further, one of our two front-runners has already stated that she will work to seat Florida’s delegates in Denver while the other broke the four state pledge and has been running TV ads in Florida since the South Carolina Democratic debate. As such, the only logical, responsible, and fair thing for the DNC to do is to reinstate Florida’s delegates immediately. In doing so, the DNC would be implementing a policy which just about everyone has already agreed is going to happen in any case. More importantly for the DNC and all of us involved, it will begin the difficult task of restoring faith in the Democratic Party in Florida, something which has been lost due to DNC actions.

Indeed, you and I have differences of opinions regarding the implementation of the DNC rules and the way our party runs its presidential primary system. But what we have never disagreed on is the need to ensure that Florida voters turn out and vote for our Democratic candidates in November.

Alcee Hastings, I guess it would have been easier to have someone else as chairman, a scenario that will happen soon. But, you see, sir....Howard Dean and the DNC have been getting calls and emails NOT to seat the delegates from Florida. They know it will be the final straw for many new party members. It would be a party takeover by Hillary's campaign.

And there's more. From the Palm Beach Post:

Clinton Campaign: Some party rules good, some bad.

First Mark Penn says they will play by the rules, even though they don't like them.

Campaign strategists Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson predicted this afternoon that Clinton would have more delegates than Obama tomorrow morning, thanks largely to her lead in “super-delegates,” which mostly are party leaders who can decide on their own which candidate to support.

While the blogs debate the egalitarian value of pledged vs. super delegates, Clinton’s folks have no qualms with those party rules. “We are going to play under the rules we are given,” Wolfson said.

But wait, in the next breath they say to seat Florida's delegates.

But almost in the same breath, they admit there are some party rules they’d like to change. Namely, the Clinton folks want to flip a decision from DNC to ban Florida delegates from the national convention. The state’s 210 delegates were stripped from the primary equation as punishment for the state moving its primary before Feb. 5 in violation of the party’s approved schedule.

Howard Wolfson uses a brand new argument here.

“These are people who despite essentially being told not to participate, they came out in droves and participated,” Wolfson said of Florida Democratic voters. “If you want to talk about democratization then let’s democratize the process in so far as allowing Michigan and Florida to participate in the selection of our nominee.”

Wolfson doesn't just want to seat them, he wants the DNC to let them participate in choosing the nominee.

Florida worked with the GOP since early 2006 to change the primary date.

The vote was 115 to 1 in favor. They were complicit in planning, introducing, and pledging support for the vote. They scoffed at the DNC chairman in public.

This is very serious for many of us. It will be for my husband and myself a turning point in our party loyalty. It would mean that a candidate would win by deliberately and openly and forcefully breaking the rules.

It would hurt the other candidate and his supporters, and it would define this party forever.