Reply #75: "Both men said they are no “Johnny come latelies” [View All]

[madfloridian]

And "DiMaio said he was estactic."

http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories/5259

"Both men said they are no “Johnny come latelies” when it comes to the question of what to do with Florida, as well as Michigan’s delegates.
Their suit was filed last August, at a time when Hillary Clinton was considered the Democrat to beat for the nomination for president.

But events have changed since then, and Barack Obama now holds a lead over Clinton in the number of delegates. Sen. Clinton and her surrogates consistently say that part of her plan to overtake Obama includes getting the delegates from Florida and Michigan, even though critics and Obama supporters say that is tantamount to changing the rules in the middle of the game.

..."DNC Chairman Howard Dean has said that if the delegate question isn’t clear after the last primary in June, he will convene the Credentials Committee of the DNC to sort the mess out.

Steinberg, who just last month was elected as chairman of the Hillsborough County Democratic Executive Committee, said this lawsuit could solve Dean’s dilemma.

Among the proposals of what to do with Florida’s delegates is to evenly split them between Clinton and Obama, or have a do–over in the form of another election, perhaps as a Caucus. But there has been little enthusiasm for that, or for that matter, for the proposal of a mail-in vote offered two weeks ago by House Minority Leader Dan Gelber.

DiMaio says that won’t happen either."

Sounds like they get to decide what happens now?

Well, now, I guess they do. Nice to be in charge.