She was for excluding Michigan and Florida before she was against it. That's the hard truth about Hillary Clinton's latest push to convince the DNC to count the two state's delegates (and popular vote totals) during their May 31st bylaws meeting. In a fundraising email sent to Clinton supporters this afternoon, she writes:
Yesterday, I spoke to voters in Florida, and they are all too familiar with the consequences of not counting every vote.
On May 31, we'll hear the decision from the DNC's Rules and Bylaws
Committee on whether they'll seat the delegates from Michigan and
Florida. And while we wait to hear their ruling, you and I must keep fighting together to win every last vote in the final three races.
But as
The New Republic's Jonathan Chait
blogs today:
It's worth repeating: They supported this "disenfranchisement." Here's a New York Times story from last fall, headlined, "Clinton, Obama and Edwards Join Pledge to Avoid Defiant States."
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Ah, politics is an art of convenience...
Posted by: bonncaruso
| May 23, 2008 9:57 AM
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