Michigan's Fight To Seat Delegates Intensifies

From the Detroit News

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080522/POLITICS01/805220393

Mich.'s fight to seat delegates intensifies

Panel expected to rule against full participation; Clinton may prolong fight to seat her delegates.

Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau

Members of a Democratic rule-making committee appear unlikely to allow Michigan and Florida to fully participate in this summer's national convention, raising the possibility of a divisive floor fight over the states' disputed primaries at the start of the fall presidential campaign.

In Florida Wednesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton toughened her call for seating her delegates in Denver. She told supporters that discounting the votes "on technicalities" would violate the basic rules of democracy. And in an interview with The Associated Press, she threatened to take her fight all the way to the convention floor -- a possibility from which her campaign had previously shied away.

U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, one of the architects of Michigan's early primary, said he would support a convention-floor fight if Michigan's full delegation isn't seated -- though Levin signaled he was less concerned about how many delegates are awarded to Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama.

The statements come as attention turns to a May 31 meeting of the party's Rules & Bylaws Committee to consider the Michigan-Florida issue.

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Technicality: (v) To break one's own pledge to one's party and then cry about it later.

There have been numerous compromises floated and yet she still refuses to let Michigan have a place at the table.

Why does she hate Michigan so much?

For a guy who didn't even show up to expect to get 50% of the vote is absolutely absurd.

What did he do to deserve 50% of the vote? Not show up?

It doesn't make any sense.

Leaders lead.

Leaders show up.

She loves Michigan. And she's the better candidate to lead our country.

Let's agree to disagree on this one and stop the nonsense.

Because, after all is said and done, the feuding is nonsense.

Otherwise, they broke the rules, everyone knew it, everyone knows it, and they can stop belly aching about it. All the residents of those two states ought to vote their elected delegates out of freaking office

count and the delegates be seated..... oh yes, and florida too with lawsuits and somehow it is just un american to not let folks votes be counted......oh and by the way, howard dean has made this into a clusterfuck and he could have allowed the votes and delegates to count.....BLAME Howard Dean....