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Katz Expects To “Get Run Over”

Posted Aug 21, 2007 by Billy House, Tribune Washington Bureau

Updated Aug 22, 2007 at 11:50 AM

Florida’s lone member on a panel of Democrats that will decide what to do about the Sunshine State’s earlier-than-allowed presidential primary says he’s braced for the worse.

“I’ll go in and do whatever I need to do and get run over,” said Allan Katz of Tallahassee.

He doesn’t expect the national party’s Rules & Bylaws Committee to have much sympathy for Florida when they meet Saturday in Washington, partly because Michigan is now talking about moving up its date—like Florida, against party rules – which further infuriates South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa.

“With the Michigan announcement they (committee members) really don’t have much of a choice,” said Katz. “They can’t just slap us on the wrist.”

He expects that the committee will quickly declare Florida’s Democrats as not complying with primary-calendar rules with their plans fora Jan. 29th primary, and impose a tough penalty.

“What I expect the result is going to be is that we Florida Democrats are going to have to regroup,” and possibly use a later caucus—Feb. 5 or Feb. 16—to choose its national convention delegates, he said.

“I think that when all the smoke clears – I think the option we’ll have is to have a caucus shortly after Feb. 5, like the 16th of February,” he said.

“If we’re lucky – we’ll have a chance to be the state that decides who the (Democratic nominee) is,” he said.