Madfloridian's Journal - From instigator to victim. It was a Dem who introduced the early primary bill in Florida.

It most surely was a Democratic who started the ball rolling. He introduced the bill to move up the primary date. A bunch of Florida Democrats had been working with Jeb's buddy, House Speaker, Marco Rubio since March of 2006.

1Florida Democratic Legislators sponsored the bill to move the primary to January 29th;

Jeremy Ring, Democrat, introduces primary bill

2.Florida House Democratic Legislators voted in committee three times for the bill to move the primary to January 29;

3.All but one Florida House Democratic Legislator vote on the floor to move the primary to January 29; and,

The one conscientious NO vote

4.Florida House Democratic Leader Dan Gelber stated, after receiving a call from DNC Chair asking for help in opposing setting the primary date before February 5, “I don’t represent Howard Dean.”

5.Florida House Democratic Leader Dan Gelber stated, after offering an amendment to move the primary to February 5th, that the only reason he offer it was “to show that there was an attempt to state within the Democratic Party rules.” The amendment failed on a voice vote with no debate being offered.

6.Florida Senate Democratic Legislators voted in committee to move the primary to January;

7.Florida Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller stated on the Senate floor that he was offering an amendment to move the primary to February 5 only because he was threatened by DNC Chair Howard Dean. Sen. Geller than mocked his own amendment which failed on a voice vote without any debate.

Jeremy Ring was one of the main Democrats who worked for the bill.

He was so angry when the candidates took a pledge not to campaign here that he "unendorsed" Barack Obama and made a huge deal of it.

Top Democrat's are not taking this lying down however. State Senator Jeremy Ring, a Broward County Democrat who joined Republicans in pushing for a January 29th primary date has withdrawn his endorsement of Senator Barack Obama. Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller says, "Any candidate that boycotts Florida and thinks that they will raise money here will be sadly disappointed" and top Democratic fund raiser prominent Jacksonville trial lawyer Wayne Hogan phoned Howard Dean last week to cancel a DNC fund raiser.

The argument that poor Florida Democrats have been disenfranchised, the argument some like Julian Bond are trying...that Dean played the race card...are simply pathetic and simply wrong. It is lying and it is misleading, and it is dangerous to our country.

It was a Democrat, not Republicans, Who Moved Florida’s Primary Date

When the hubbub over Florida’s new presidential primary date began, the Florida Democratic Party was quick to blame the Republican-led state legislature for a change that violated national Dem Party rules and introduced the state party to a world of hurt. It turns out, however, that it was actually a Democratic state senator who introduced the original legislation that moved the primary date to Jan. 29. Hmmm.

But when newly spineful state party chair Karen Thurman gathered the Democratic faithful around her last weekend to announce that the state party would defiantly promote the Jan. 29 vote as a “real” election that “counts,” the man responsible for the original legislation was conspicuously absent.

.."Now that the Florida Democratic Party is resigned to the fact that the state will be off-limits to the leading Democratic candidates (except for blue-plate fundraisers — so much for the Dems who can’t afford that) and the party’s convention next month will be just another diversion at Disney World and the state will be stripped of its convention delegates, Thurman et. al. seem bent on ignoring the fact that a fellow party member actually started the whole thing.

I see an influx here at DU many times a day now, whining and whimpering and playing the victim.

The only victims were the voters of Florida who were screwed by their state leaders and then lied to by them.