Reply #15: Here's one of the big players in Florida....from 2000. [View All]

[madfloridian]

He is running for a judgeship now. He was pretty much in charge of our county party for a long time, and since no on realized what this group was doing...the party sort of followed along.

This is from a TNR article I can't find now, but I have a lot of the text;

That, as they say, was then. Now Rosenberg can't walk five feet across the convention floor without shaking a hand or kissing a cheek. Everywhere we turn, it seems, he's running into a congressional candidate or city councilman or state representative or another "one of the bright young stars we're working with." Making his way through the Florida delegation, for example, he's greeted by the state party chair, the head of the state DLC, and a gruff lawyer from Lakeland named Bob Grizzard. Defiantly wearing a t-shirt from Clinton's 1992 campaign over his checkered oxford shirt, Grizzard tells me he's a "proud member of the DLC." When I ask him about the prominence of liberal speakers on the convention docket, he says, "We're the party of diversity and inclusion," then pauses before adding, "and if they don't want to swallow DLC, we'll stick it to 'em." A minute later, he grabs the shoulders of an African American delegate and pulls him over. "He's not quite with us yet," Grizzard confides to me jokingly, "but we'll give him time." Grizzard's friends are a little embarrassed by the gesture but share his triumphalism nonetheless. "The DLC is the wind in our sails," says Bob Poe, the state party chair."

http://www.tnr.com/082800/foer082800.html


So, my friend, that is how it is done.