Hillary, just do the right thing!Make Will wrong!
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GOOD MORNING FLINT!
BY Terry Bankert 2/22/08
http://attorneybankert.com/
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Summary at Flint Talk
http://flinttalk.com/
Full Article at: http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/
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"I don’t belong to an organized political party," humorist Will Rogers once said, "I’m a Democrat."[TF)
Every time I think I have heard this statememt for the last time, then it gets paraded out again.[TRB)
Those responsible for the Michigan delegate debacle to meet in Flint Saturday,.[trb)
The prickly question lingers about whether Michigan delegates will be seated at the Democratic National Convention, members of the state's Democratic Party are coming to Flint.[FJ)
And when the state's Democratic Central Committee gets to the UAW Local 599 for a regular meeting, members will be greeted by a group of Barack Obama supporters.[FJ)
DAN KILDEE HAS ANNOUNCED HIS SUPPORT FOR OBAMA RECENTLY,HE WILL LEAD US OUT OF THIS MESS.
Local Obama fans will rally before the 11 a.m. meeting armed with signs that read "Follow the rules" and a passionate plea -- don't give Hillary Rodham Clinton 60 percent of Michigan's Democratic delegates.[FJ)
"The Democratic party's rules said that no one should have their name on the ballot in Michigan," said former state Rep. Floyd Clack, coordinator of "Genesee County for Obama."[FJ)
First, what rule did Florida and Michigan break?
Section 11A of the Selection Rules of the 2008 Democratic National Convention:
No meetings, caucuses, conventions or primaries which constitute the first determining stage in the presidential nomination process (the date of the primary in primary states, and the date of the first tier caucus in caucus states) may be held prior to the first Tuesday in February or after the second Tuesday in June in the calendar year of the national convention. [Except for Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina].[MD)
THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY ASKED THE GOOD DEMOCRATS TO TAKE THEIR NAMES OFF THE MICHIGAN BALLOT. THEY DID.
In a widely expected move, the Democratic National Committee voted ...to strip Michigan of all its 156 delegates to the national nominating convention next year. The state is breaking the party’s rules by holding its primary on Jan. 15. Only Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada are allowed to hold contests prior to Feb. [TNYT)
"Obama took his name off but Hillary left hers on. Everyone else was following the rules. When someone doesn't follow the rules, you can't reward them."[FJ)
The pseudo protest comes two weeks after the state's Democratic Party announced that Clinton would get 73 of the 156 delegates if the party's state's delegates attended the convention.[FJ)
Fifty-five delegates would be officially uncommitted.[FJ)
But Clack is still asking Obama supporters to attend and take a stand against what he says is an unfair disadvantage to Obama in a tight race.[FJ)
The efforts have baffled some Clinton supporters.[FJ)
But then some are easily baffled..[TRB)
THE STATE DEMOCRATS PARADE THEIR DEFEATED MAYORAL CANDIDATE AS THE LOCAL SPOKESMAN.
"The delegates need to be allocated according to adopted party rules. Any other suggestion is self-aggrandizing," said Clinton backer and former Flint mayoral candidate Dayne Walling.[FJ)
AL SHARPTON DIFFERS WITH WALLING
Seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at the Democratic National Convention would be a grave injustice, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Wednesday in a break with prominent civil rights leaders.[FN)
"I firmly believe that changing the rules now, and seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at this point would not only violate the Democratic Party’s rules of fairness, but also would be a grave injustice," Sharpton said in a letter to Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.[FN)
MOST DEMOCRATS FEEL THE MICHIGAN BRANCH SHOULD FOLLOW THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE RULES- ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO! SOME DO NOT GET IT!
"The question would be on what grounds could an alternative decision be made?"[FJ) .said Walling
He said Obama chose to take his name off the ballot and his supporters should instead protest at his headquarters.[FJ)
"This is a historic and unusual situation but every group needs to abide by the letter and sprit of the law," he, Walling, said.[FJ)
"That claim, if true, should have been made many months ago before the decision was made to strip these states of their delegates, and, once the decision was made, it should have been vigorously objected to and contested by those who felt it disenfranchised voters," Sharpton wrote. "To raise that claim now smacks of politics in its form most raw and undercuts the moral authority behind such an argument."[fp)
But Walling was happy to see Flint playing host to the state's central committee meeting, which he said is a good way for "Flint to be on the political map."[FJ)
Who is this guy to be our spokesman
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