DNC Official: Delegates Won't Be Seated Without Revote

Some posters are just amazing. Post away about RULES and breaking rules, and changing rules, when you don't even know what the rules are.

When ALL parties agreed to strip FL and MI of their delegates, ALL parties also agreed that a revote would be possible to select legitimate delegates for the convention.

Asking now for a revote does not break any rules at all. It's plain and simple.

Here is Howard Dean's statement on the RULES

Dean's full statement:

"We're glad to hear that the Governors of Michigan and Florida are willing to lend their weight to help resolve this issue. As we've said all along, we strongly encourage the Michigan and Florida state parties to follow the rules, so today's public overtures are good news. The rules, which were agreed to by the full DNC including representatives from Florida and Michigan over 18 months ago, allow for two options. First, either state can choose to resubmit a plan and run a party process to select delegates to the convention; second, they can wait until this summer and appeal to the Convention Credentials Committee, which determines and resolves any outstanding questions about the seating of delegates. We look forward to receiving their proposals should they decide to submit new delegate selection plans and will review those plans at that time. The Democratic Nominee will be determined in accordance with party rules, and out of respect for the presidential campaigns and the states that did not violate party rules, we are not going to change the rules in the middle of the game.

Obama needs to push for caucuses in MI and FL. If Hillary opposes the idea then she'll be exposed as the liar she is. If she agrees then she'll have to suffer the crushing loss of both states. Win - win for Obama.

Following your own rules, I would say that is the very definition of integrity.

Obviously

Without re-votes in MI and FL Hillary's chances of winning the nomination just went from slim to none... This is very bad news for Hillary supporters - and, despite her best attempts to make Obama look like the person keeping re-votes from moving forward, those decisions were made unanimously by democrat party officials and state law makers in both states. I'm glad Im not a Clinton donor, you might as well play the lottery...

Florida and Michigan had a very long time to address their delegates. They chose not to. Hillary and Barack SIGNED AGREEMENTS saying they would not campaign or participate in elections in Florida and Michigan. Is anyone posting those SIGNED AGREEMENTS? Does Hillary have no integrity? She publicly says they do not count in October but now desperately wants a "redo" because she needs the votes? This is the problem with Hillary, she wants to rewrite every rule only if it is benefical to her. This is the Nevada caucus lawsuit, this is caucus' in general, this is the only big states count Clinton approach. New Clinton rules every single day. She attacked her NY Senate opponent when he didn't provide his tax returns but she won't supply the last eight years worth. New Clinton rules every single day.

Good.


And that doesn't mean I don't want those voters heard - I ABSOLUTELY DO.


I say "good" because this is a matter of responsibility... On a pretty adolescent level. The states were told there would be consequences for breaking the rules. They broke them anyway, and then acted like the consequences were a surprise. Anyone who's spent time with children knows this pattern well.


The DNC has now made it clear that it's 100% the states' responsibility to make it right. And again, if they choose not to, there will be consequences; The delegates won't be be seated. And the voters in FL and MI states will have absolutely no one to blame but their own legislators.


It's unfortunate and pathetic that the DNC has to step into the role of disciplinary parent. Hopefully in the future, all state leaders will act like adults, and it won't happen again.

GOOD!!!!! Hillary doesn't get to change the rules in the middle of the game to suit her, even if she is married to Bill Clinton! Hey, Hill, if you're so damn interested in franchising the voters in Mi and FLA, you should have spoken up when the DNC made its decision, rather than agree to it. The Clinton camp is desperate AND pathetic!

I've been watching the various blogs on this. It's clear, at least on these blogs, that the partisans of Obama and Clinton can't see the forest through the trees and are both trying to rearrange the furniture on the Titanic.

Clinton and Obama are running for President in the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party and the state parties have created a potential calamity for November, if MI and FL are not resolved to everyone's satisfaction..

If these two are worth consideration as President, the 2 of them have to sit down and carve out a fair result for the voters of FL and MI and the campaign workers from FL and MI -- without any divisive staff in the room. If they can't fix a calamity among their allies, when in the long term they're on the same team, neither is worthy of being President.

In that case, the Convention should select someone else for President and stiff both of them.

Al Gore?

The DNC is 100% correct. The FL & MI Party bosses that decided they would break the rules by holding the unsanctioned primary date vote knew exactly what the penalties were going to be.

The Voters in those states knew that their delegates would not be seated if the date for primary voting was not not changed.

Even the Candidates themselves knew and approved of the DNC's ruling and signed documents stting that the understood what the rules would be.

Now one of your Dem candidates & its campaign surrogates start a propoganda war against your DNC chairman & the DNC itself. This same candidate endorsed a Republican nominee over one of their own party members as being better qualified as Commander in Chief. ROFLMAO.

I assure you come the General Mrs Clinton will not win. Joint ticket? Her name, history & negatives will doom any chances for the Dems to win... What a mess. Best get out & have BOTH Dem candidates endorse, support and campaign for your States Senate & Congressional seats for this 08.

clinton has said that it won't accept a caucus in Michigan, so I don't see where it has taken the moral high ground on getting the MI delegates involved.

This gives me hope for the future of the Democratic Party.