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Chris Chiari: Stop Florida From Damaging Another Election

by: ImpactPolitics

Thu May 15, 2008 at 13:47:03 PM EDT


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From Chris Chiari: 

Dear Friends,

From the 2000 recount, to the debacle over delegates, Florida has a long, painful history of problems during election season.  Who’s to blame?  The Republican-Led Florida Legislature.

I am running against the Majority Whip of the Florida House  - the very person that secured the votes that got us into the latest delegate mess.  

In the last term, my opponent:

-    Voted for legislation that discredits evolution and opens the door to intelligent design in school curriculum.

-    Violated a woman’s right to privacy by voting to make an ultrasound mandatory prior to exercising a woman’s right to choose.

-    Supported legislation criminalizing embryonic stem cell research

-    Voted specifically to exclude mental and physical disabilities and sexual orientation from enumerated categories of bullying in anti-bullying legislation.

-    Voted to change Florida law to allow people to take their guns to work.

We may not all be Florida Democrats, but we all know the story:  Voters disenfranchised and a primary in chaos. 

On top of that, back in January, 2004, my opponent won the first election in America using black-box voting machines.  The result – a contested election and a judge, not voters, choosing the winner.

It gets worse: She is also the Florida Co-Chair of the McCain for Florida campaign.

We may be a state in chaos… We may be a Democratic party in chaos… but we will win in November.

Help me remove a key member of the Florida Republican leadership:
Click here to lend me your support.

Chris Chiari

Democrat for Florida State House

(Poltical Advertisement paid for and approved by Chris Chiari, Democrat for State House, District 91)

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Disenfranchisement: Part of the FL GOP "brand" (0.00 / 0)
I recently posted on my blog about a video Broward County Democrats have made addressing the very issue you cover in this post regarding voter disenfrancisement. I feel this video is so important because it addresses several issues that continue to make voter disenfranchisement such a raw, open wound here in Florida where the state GOP continues to stand in the afterglow of the 2000 election debacle.  One of those issues indirectly concerns the seating of the Florida delegation at the 2008 DNC convention.

What bothers me the most about this issue is how the MSM and yes, the liberal blogosphere, has ignored the other side of this story which has been well covered in this state by most media outlets.  Even though I've already posted about this issue at Truman's Conscience, it does not do justice exposing what the state GOP has done to make sure voter disenfranchisement remains a core element of their ruling philosophy.

To understand how much the GOP dominates the state legislature here one has to see how both houses, led by Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, break down by party lines.  The state house has a ratio of 77 Republicans to 43 Democrats. The state senate has a ratio of 26 Republicans to 14 Democrats.  Early in 2007 the state GOP introduced a bill that would move up the Florida primary from March, to January 29th violating DNC Rule 20.C.1(a) & Rule 11.A.  The majority of the elected Democrats and state party officials objected.  The Democrats in the state legislature of both houses introduced two of their own bills moving the date up to and not before Feb. 5 to comply with the DNC.  The state GOP overwhelmingly defeated both bills.  They then turned around and made their original bill an Omnibus bill that included a provision to mandate statewide paper trials for all ballots regardless of how they are cast.  A couple of other provisions were thrown in to make it politically impossible for the Democrats to vote against and that was that.  The Dems overwhelmingly voted for the bill and were subsequently stripped of their seats at the 2008 convention.  The GOP knew this would happen.  They wanted to make sure the state would be wide open for one sided media coverage of their Presidential candidates as they knew the Democratic Presidential candidates had already pledged to honor the no campaigning rule as outlined in  Rule 20.C.1(a) & Rule 11.A.

It bothers me that Florida's delegate problem is lumped in with Michigan's.  Their state is led by Democratic Gov., Jeanne Granholm and a Democratic majority in their state house.  Though the Michigan state senate has a thin GOP majority, Michigan could have avoided this problem had they wished.

TrumanDem

Truman's Conscience


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