NAACP Head Wants Barred Delegates Seated

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Late Wednesday afternoon NAACP chairman Julian Bond issued a press release embracing new primary contests in Michigan and Florida.

"It is possible now for the DNC and Chairman Dean to develop a new alternative voting system " like a state caucus " for Democrats in Florida or Michigan, so their voices will be heard and their votes will be counted.

"The NAACP has fought for fairness in elections of all sorts since our founding days, and will continue to do so in the future."

http://www.naacp.org/news/press/2008-02-14/

It is true the older we become the more difficut it is to change, to a greater extent it is even more difficult to see change coming. Mr. Bond is once again using the NAACP for his own personal agenda or should I say Bill Clinton's personal agenda.It is apparent that Bill and Hillary will use any mean necessary to get back into the white house. Shame on you Mr. Bond.

According to the article the Republican controlled legislature and the Republican governor determined the date for the Democratic primaries.

I don't believe another party should be allowed to disenfranchise Democratic voters. Mr. Bond is on the right side of this argument.

The Democratic Party should stand with his party members and seat the delegates.

The NAACP did not take sides, but Chairman Julian Bond is using his position illegitimately to do so. Her is a long associate of the Clintons. So it is a Clinton "head" who wrote the letter, not an NAAPC head. Moreover, we have seen Clinton's selfish attitude all too often. "Either I win or I'll cause trouble." The facts are: She agreed to the rules, she agreed with the other candidates to stay out of those illegitimate primaries. But she alone had her name on the Michigan ballot. There she beat Nobody! In Florida, she had fund raising campaigns, her organization plugged away for votes, and she flew in for her "victory" speech.
One could smell the Clintonian stench. I knew she was planning to cause trouble and be destructive if she didn't win in the rest of America.
This shows us her character: selfish, deceitful, mean. I do not want a president like that.
In fact, although I wouldn't want him for a husband, the more one sees of Hillary, the more one can understand some possible justification for Bill's extramarital adventures.
She is cold, just is not an appealing person.
And I'll never support THIS woman.

The primaries in Fla & Michigan are over and just because you don't like the results you can't call a do-over... it didn't happen for Gore in Fla in 2000, and it shouldn't happen now.. you have to live with the results good or bad...Obama not putting his name on the ballot was a mistake by an inexperienced politician.. But of course this all depends on if the delegates are seated.

This article is a perfect reason for an African American to rip up his NAACP membership. If they were so committed to fairness why not have another caucus or primary in both states to make it fair. No they don"t care about fairness they just want to an unfair advantage for the Clintons. One good thing about this election will be that a lot of African Americans like myself are getting to take a good look at these so call Black organizations and politicians and seeing their true motives.

Bull crappy,

Julian can tell folks that the NAACP hasn't endorsed...yet the CA NAACP endorsed Clinton because it is headed by Alice Huffman former Lobbyist for the California Teachers Associaton. The CA NAACP has been in disarray for years with little or no funding. Alice who retired took up the job as President (without salary) because the organization gave her some clout and kept her name in the public arena. She used the CA NAACP to maintain her status as a mover and shaker. She holds sway over the organizations board and it allows all of them to have say in the state's political games.

I believe that Alice has convinced Julian to jump into this battle and write that letter. It is amazing how many people and groups want to be seen as part of the decision making of this race. Mostly all of these people owe the clintons for past political favors and bill is pulling out the stops...

This a partsan act on behalf of the Clintons and anybody who believes anything else is a fool...shame on the NAACP!

RERUN THE MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA PRIMARIES

The most democratic (Democratic?) way to resolve the Michigan/Florida divide is to rerun both primaries, perhaps on the same day as the Puerto Rico contest (June 7, I think).

The DNC should pay for half of the cost for running the primaries and the other half should be paid for however primaries are normally funded. In this way, a potentially party-dividing resolution at the Convention would be avoided in a manner that is equally fair and unfair to the candidates but wholly fair to the Democratic primary voters of that state. The so-called "super" delegates from Michigan and Florida should be forced to vote however the voters of the state vote. If it is a "winner-take-all" state, then the super delegates should vote however the majority in the state vote. If delegates are proportionately apportioned, then the super delegates should vote however the voters from the district from which they come vote.

Admittedly this resolution means a very different primary than it would have meant when the states original primaries occurred, as, among other things, there would only be 2 candidates on the ballot. However having another primary would be democratic and would also give the states what they were seeking by moving the election in contravention to DNC rules, in that each state's primary would be of major importance to determining who the candidate is. At the same time, having another primary would put to bed a division that could literally jeopardize the outcome of the national election in November and resolve the NAACP complaints about disenfranchising minority voters, as the delegates from those states would not be the subject of a bitter tug-of-war that could anger significant proportions of the campaign workers from those states necessary to get out the vote (who is exactly who state delegates to the Convention are).

Rerun the primaries in Michigan and Florida.

Now is the time to GET RIGHT

2 Samuel 12:7

Nathan then said to David, "You are that man!

Obama Vows To 'Do What's Right'
By WILLIAM MARCH and ELAINE SILVESTRINI
The Tampa Tribune
Published: September 30, 2007

TAMPA - Barack Obama hinted during a Tampa fundraiser Sunday that if he's the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he'll seat a Florida delegation at the party's national convention, despite national party sanctions prohibiting it.

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2007/sep/30/obama-vows-do-whats-right/?news-breaking

our election system is FUCKED UP...

"WASHINGTON - A prominent civil rights leader has told the Democratic National Committee that refusing to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise both states' minority communities."

It disenfranchises ALL Democratic voters in Michigan -&- Florida. What is seemingly disturbing to me, is that, in my opinion, if Obama had won in Florida -and- Michigan, his supporters seemingly would be beating down the door of the DNC demanding that voters in these two states not be disenfranchised, ... backing up the NAACP! But since Hillary Clinton won in Michigan -and- Florida, the majority of Obama's supporters seemingly could not care less whether or not minority voters are currently being disenfranchised. Fairness and equity for ALL Americans be damned, Obama supporters don't want Hillary to have her majority delegates in Michigan -and- Florida to be seated at the '08 Dem Convention, no matter which innocent voters unfairly get burned in the process. Right? To me, at the end of the day, in many Obama supporters seemingly thinking it is perfectly O.K. for voters to be unfairly disenfranchised in Michigan -and- Florida, they are looking more and more like Bush voters, in Bush voters thinking it was perfectly O.K. to unethically disenfranchise Floridian voters in Election 2000. ...This national election is supposed to be about ALL Americans, but in winning the self-centered football game of 'making history,', in the eyes of many, honest Democracy needn't apply; it's all about winning at any cost ... even if the little guy gets screwed over, right?!? ... Unreal.

In critical matters of fairness -&- equity in civil rights for *ALL* Americans, I strongly support the NAACP in their efforts to have Michigan -and- Florida state delegates seated at the '08 Democratic Convention; it is clearly the ethically correct thing to do. Anything less, ... is purely un-American.