Democratic Underground - Et Tu, Michigan? What a shame.

Florida and Michigan are continuing to blame others for what they did. They say they did it to force primary change. That is not how you do it, not when you set it up for one candidate's advantage.

Here are three of Hillary Clinton's supporters, state leaders in Michigan, irate at the people who want a chance for their vote to count. An ex-governor says the people blame Howard Dean. They probably do, even though Democrats in the state helped push it through, just like Florida. Why? Because the Democrats in those two states have not been honest.

This article made me angry.

Clinton backers argue against 'uncommitted'

Just a quote or two from the article.

Hillary Clinton's Michigan supporters will rally to her defense today, hoping to push back public and not-too-public efforts to embarrass her in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow and former Gov. James Blanchard will meet with reporters, to publicize their support for Clinton's presidential bid and to discourage Democrats from voting "uncommitted" -- one of the choices on the Democratic ballot, along with Clinton, Chris Dodd, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich. Blanchard said he is concerned voters may take out their frustration over the marginalized Democratic race here on Clinton, the only serious Democratic contender on the ballot in Michigan, by casting uncommitted votes.

"We're increasingly having people tell us they're mad at the party, mad at Howard Dean, and want to protest the process," Blanchard said, referring to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

Florida Democratic leaders only this week were reinforcing their innocent image, saying they were happy how they handled things...forgetting they hurt the people of the party who were never told the truth about the 115 to 1 vote.

Senator Melson glad he sued DNC...Chair Thurman feels really really good

It "will give us the momentum as we try to change the primary system from the chaos that has developed now into a more rational system," said Nelson, who is sponsoring a bill to set up a national primary schedule.

"I don't have any regrets," said Florida Democratic Party Chairman Karen Thurman. "It was for maximum participation, it was for the purposes of not having a chaotic system and it was to keep the fiscal responsibility of the party also in mind."

Karen, the primary schedule was set. You don't change horses in the middle....oh never mind.

Bill, you got your momentum but you did not care that things like this were happening all over the state.

“Everywhere I go, even at the grocery store, people ask me why Democrats’ votes won’t count, or why should they vote if their votes don’t count,” Lee Elections Supervisor Sharon Harrington said. “I tell them everybody can vote, but it seems like a lot of people don’t understand that.”

The leaders of both states need to have the courage to stand up and say that they misused their positions to launch a power play. It would go a long way toward healing the rifts.

Florida won't, and I doubt the Michigan leaders would ever admit it was their fault, that they broke the rules. That's too bad.

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