Is it maybe about that meeting on May 31 with the DNC rules committee? I am just not sure anymore.
I read today at TPM that the Clinton campaign's chief strategist said that NC was a success because they won
white voters.On the Hillary conference call, Hillary chief strategist Geoff Garin made the case for her electability in some of the most explicitly race-based terms I've heard yet.
Garin argued that the North Carolina contest, which Obama won by 14 points, represented "progress" for Hillary because she did better among white voters there than she did in Virginia.
I was thinking today that there is a hearing on May 31 about FL and MI delegates. By this point the seating even at the most favorable to her would make little or no difference in the outcome. So I wondered about something else.
When Garin mentioned getting more white votes in NC than in VA, and seemed proud of it....I thought about Victor DiMaio's latest lawsuit. It is the one accusing the DNC under Howard Dean of using reverse discrimination toward the white voters of Florida.
Suing DNC for discriminating against white people in FL, using Rule 11 to get to the Supreme CourtI would not have thought this case had anything to do with her decision, but hey...Garin brought up the white vote first.
South Carolina and Nevada were allowed to hold their primaries before February 5th because the high percentage of blacks and Hispanics in those states helped compensate for the pasty complexion of Iowa and New Hampshire.
That's the basis for an amended legal filing planned by Tampa Democratic activist, Victor Dimaio and attorney Michael Steinberg who are suing to have Florida's entire Democratic delegation seated at the National Convention in Denver this summer.
..."Steinberg and DiMaio acknowledge with a grin that their reverse racism accusation will ruffle feathers, but hope the conservative judiciary will be delighted to strike a blow against affirmative action and rule in their favor. Their only objective, they claim, is to see all of Florida's delegates seated based on the January 31st primary election.
The ugly head of racism reared up in Garin's statement. So it is fair game to wonder what and who is behind DiMaio's 3rd lawsuit.
I remembered something Jay Bookman wrote a while ago in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. When a campaign makes a statement like that, it does appear they are not connected to reality.
Jay Bookman said that the Clinton campaign suffered from
Jay Bookman, AJC: "Clinton suffers ‘campaign bubble’ syndrome"In addition, everybody with whom the candidate interacts on a daily basis shares the same little campaign bubble. They all drank the Kool-Aid, and they all liked the Kool-Aid. So nobody on the team wants to be the first to suggest that it might be over, that all that hard work and those long days have gone for naught.
....."For several weeks now, even before the Ohio and Texas primaries, it had become clear that Clinton could not win the Democratic nomination, and nothing since then has changed that fact. Yet, surrounded by people who look to her for hope and inspiration, Clinton cannot bring herself to admit it.
Instead, she insists that the process continue, on the grounds that the people are sovereign and must be allowed to have their say. Then, switching gears, she also argues that once the people have had their say, the superdelegates have the right to overturn the people’s verdict in her favor.
I was not going to post anything at all in GDP today, but that remark from Geoff Garin hit me so very wrong. It was racist and tasteless. I am white, and I was offended.
Governor Dean said either candidate would know and understand when it was time for them to go....but I think maybe he was wrong.
