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The people who believe this lie will tell you that the Democrats did try to fight the legislation in the beginning, even making an amendment themselves, not to move the date prior to February 5th. For instance, these people, who say: True, they did, and they were defeated. But how serious and honest were they in those efforts? Watch this video and see for yourself:
Note the dripping sarcasm and the <wink, wink, nod, nod> going on. This was not a “Good Faith” effort to prevent the early primary. They literally went through the motions under false pretenses, only so they could later claim they tried, by presenting their amendments to the DNC Rules Committee as evidence that they took “provable and positive steps” to stop the legislation. It is alleged that the Rules Committee saw this video evidence, which is how they know that the Florida Democrats intentionally made a mockery of the threat of sanctions against them, as opposed to genuinely fighting against this legislation.
And then Senator Geller had the gall to write a letter to the DNC, putting the full blame on the Republicans. The man’s a liar and his constituents have suffered the consequences. Were I a Floridian, I would be campaigning hard to oust his ass from office.
And none of this addresses, from the CBS article above, that they were offered an opportunity not to have sanctions imposed if they just called the early primary a “beauty contest” for the Presidential portion of the voting, and held a second contest at a later date. They chose not to do that because they didn’t think their constituents would want to come out and vote twice, which is ridiculous, seeing as how they’ve been fighting so hard to do just that for the past several months.
Their other argument against that proposition was that the 2nd contest would likely be caucuses as opposed to “primaries”, and they felt that method would disenfranchise voters in their state. Hmmm, let me think about that a moment. . . “Disenfranchise” voters by making none of their voices heard at all by thumbing their nose at the DNC Rules Committee and having none of their delegates seated, or “Disenfranchise” voters by making them come to a second election held as a caucus." Which of those options truly “disenfranchises” their voters more? You do the math.
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It was explained to me that the final vote also included a measure that would allow paper ballots, and that there was no way that the Democrats could vote against that so they had to concede the early primary.
Nonetheless, my initial statement about anger against the GOP, who have caused endless consternation for the Florida Dems for at least the last decade, stands. Although from what I saw in the video, be that all true and accurate, then first they might well begin by purging those from their own house that might be working against the party’s best interest. I certainly believe that there are plenty of Democrats in this country who need to be replaced. The party hasn’t endured it’s long losing streak and many spineless representatives because all is well with it. We need candidates worth voting for who will not only have the support of Dems but of independents and Republicans as well in order to attain a majority in that state and elsewhere.
