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Brazile: Florida Democrats Arrogant

Posted Sep 25, 2007 by Cheryl Segal

Updated Sep 25, 2007 at 02:00 PM

Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore and a member of the Democratic National Committee’s rules committee writes in today’s Roll Call newspaper that the insistence of Florida Democrats to hold the presidential primary on Jan. 29 in violation of the party’s rules shows “their blatant contempt for rules they once supported” and is “not only a sign of arrogance, but worse, it’s a sign of desperation from a state party that felt powerless in confronting its Republican-controlled Legislature.”

While acknowledging that the candidate selection process is “dysfunctional and chaotic” and needs fixing, Brazile argues that “Florida leaders are openly defying the rules not out of some great moral or democratic principle, but out of fear that their state will be treated as less important than some other state.”

A result:  Florida will be boycotted by the party’s major candidates during the primary process.