Obama trying to scuttle Michigan "re-do" Primary
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Promoted from blogs. Thanks for putting Michigan in play this year, Chairman Dean! - Moe Lane
MIRS BREAKING NEWS reports: Senate Democrats emerged from a closed-door caucus this morning and proclaimed that a fledging idea floated by top Michigan Democrats to create a special June 3 primary election is all but dead.
"The votes aren't there to do it," said Sen. Buzz THOMAS (D-Detroit), the co-chair of the Barack OBAMA campaign in Michigan
Sen. Gretchen WHITMER, a supporter of Hillary CLINTON, also conceded the chances of a June 3 redo of the Democratic presidential primary were slim. She stopped short of declaring it dead, saying instead that it was "on life support" and in need of CPR.
The Legislature would need to approve a bill by a two-third vote to put in place a June 3 special primary that would replace the results of the Jan. 15 presidential primary, which the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is not recognizing because the early date violated national party rules.
Support for the primary is weak for numerous reasons, the biggest reason being Obama's reluctance to sign off. Republicans, local clerks and state officials, however, also have raised concerns about rushing to create a special primary for logistical and legal reasons.
Without the redo, Michigan Democrats and independents risk not having a substantive voice in the Clinton-Obama horserace before a DNC deadline for states to report their delegate count expires on June 10.
Howard Dean should have stopped this weeks ago, but he just hoped it would go away. The Dems. set their rules and now they do not like them, LOL. Who can they blame for this mess, maybe they can spin it to blame Bush. I am sure Karl Rove was also envolved. Those bad Republicans.
They cant even run their own Primary System and they want us to hand America over to them-Goodness!!
to this quagmire of the Democrats are making me grin from ear to ear.
Prolong the primarys?
P*** off Dem voters in two purple states?
Cause wealthy limousine liberals to loudly demand their money back from the DNC?
Spend more money in the primary, and less in the general?
Spend party money on a new
Keep the party divided longer, with less time to unify it after a winner is chosen?
All sound good to me!
These people can't even pick a candidate, and they want to run the country?
Have you added to the population of the McCain 2008 minicity yet today?
...and you're going to get burned. There are no laws about how the political parties conduct their business. There never should have been public funded primaries and caucuses in the first place. And, no matter what Rev. Sharpton says, there is no constitutional right to vote in a primary. This is a members-only club and the club management can decide who their candidate is by whatever methods, whatever timetable, and under whatever rules they want. If you don't like the club rules, quit the club.
This debacle has make the DNC look like heavy-handed power-hungry socialists - exactly what they are. This is centralized control of a process that has nothing to do with democracy. Of course this isn't a democratic process - it's politics. Democracy has no place in politics.
The funniest thing about it all is that the number of delegates for either Clinton or Obama makes no difference in the final tally. It will still be decided by superdelegates anyway. 20% are superdelegates and they will do the selecting unless one of the candidates is stupid enough to drop out.
The whole issue has made me and many other Michiganders disenfranchised as we blew $10 million on an extra election in January that meant zero for Ds and barely anything for the GOP. It was pushed heavily by Saul Anuzis and Governor Granholm to bring Michigan prominence(which it failed completely).
I do feel a smidge sorry for the Democrats in Florida as they really had no say in the date of the primary moving up. They couldn't block it legislatively or veto it. So they have a tiny beef. As much of a beef as anyone who uses taxpayer money to select their private party's candidates.
...Michigan and Florida to the GOP. I'm very gracious for that. I may send Nikita Dean a thank you note.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
Naw, say it ain't so. Who'd a thunk it?