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Hillary has consistently stood up for the voters of Michigan and Florida. She, like you, has insisted that the voice of all Americans be heard. Today, the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee announced their decision on seating Florida and Michigan’s delegations. In recent days, almost 350,000 of Hillary’s supporters wrote in to the committee to make clear what an important principle it is for our party to count every vote.

Our campaign has released an official statement about the results of the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting and I’d like to share it with blogHillary readers. I know how passionate Hillary’s supporters are about the importance of counting every vote cast in Florida and Michigan and I hope that they continue to express their feelings with the respect and thoughtfulness they’ve shown during the course of this campaign.

Harold Ickes and Tina Flournoy made the following statement:

Today’s results are a victory for the people of Florida who will have a voice in selecting our Party’s nominee and will see its delegates seated at our party’s convention. The decision by the Rules and Bylaws Committee honors the votes that were cast by the people of Florida and allocates the delegates accordingly.
We strongly object to the Committee’s decision to undercut its own rules in seating Michigan’s delegates without reflecting the votes of the people of Michigan.
The Committee awarded to Senator Obama not only the delegates won by Uncommitted, but four of the delegates won by Senator Clinton. This decision violates the bedrock principles of our democracy and our Party.
We reserve the right to challenge this decision before the Credentials Committee and appeal for a fair allocation of Michigan’s delegates that actually reflect the votes as they were cast.

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Here’s what I thought about the event

Watching this meeting this weekend was definitely like watching not just a party train wreck but almost like watching the party behead itself.  If the Democratic Party was a student driver, they couldn’t even get an auto insurance quote let alone a policy to save their lives after that display of ineptitude.   That said it seems like its pretty much check mate for Hillary Clinton.

Last month came and went we didn’t complete a little drawing we were sponsoring with the photograph of King George, the Pinocchio version.

I’m hoping to kick things back off and so we’re extending the deadline of the contest (we didn’t have too many entrants because we had some problems with the software which have been fixed now, in fact I don’t think we had any entries :-)).

The new deadline for the contest will be the end of October, all hollows ween or something like that.

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Maybe someday soon we’ll have another contest and it will offer something up a little bit more sexy like a free iPod or maybe a brand-new car or some fancy furniture that looks like it was destined for the White House made by Century furniture.

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