Yeh, right, Marco...of course you did not know what a mess it would cause...you said as you chuckled up your sleeve.
And thumbs down to Jeremy Ring and the other Florida Democrats who insult the national party. Here is Jeremy's statement.
"GOP officials in the state say they had no idea until late in this spring's legislative session that the change would create so much turmoil on the Democratic side.
"I don't think anybody made us aware of that until the very end of the process," said Marco Rubio, the Republican state House speaker.
And Jeremy Ring, a Democratic state senator from Broward County and co-sponsor of the legislation, defended it.
"If the choice is Florida is relevant and has no delegates versus being irrelevant and having delegates, I'd choose being relevant with no delegates," Ring said. "We did this so 18 million Floridians could take part in the presidential primaries, not so a few hundred people can go to a party in Denver."
And another South Florida legislator said he had no loyalty to the DNC or the party.
http://www.ovaloffice2008.com/2006_04_01_ovaloffice2008_archive.html"Florida's Democrats also support moving the primary up, and they have cold, hard logic on their side. "We're Florida, for crying out loud," said Democratic state Rep. Dan Gelber. Out loud. "Moving it up would give our state and its voters the prominence they merit," he added. It's a logic you can't refute. All around the country, state legislators are shaking their heads, wondering if their own voters should be given prominence when they clearly don't merit it. Floridians are special."
And more special stuff from Gelber.
"Indeed, when DNC chair Howard Dean threatened to cut the size of the Florida delegation to the 2008 convention, State Representative Dan Gelber of Miami Beach responded, "I don't have any constituents in the DNC. I only have constituents in my district. They would like to be more relevant."
http://bleiersblog.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.htmlMost of the Florida Dems would undermine the national party to get this state first or near the top of the primaries.
They would NOT do it in 2004, they just did not care. The state chairman now is asking for a way to get Florida Dems help for breaking the party rules.
The whole thing is sickening. It was a power play. And not just by the Republicans.
A party in Denver? Really, Jeremy Ring. You sound just like a Florida Democrat. A party in Denver?