Shoring up the DNC

Written by: Ralph I. Miller on Mar 16, 2008 9:09 PM EDT

Dear fellow Democrats,

As I’m sure you’re all aware, Gov. Dean is under fire (again!) at the DNC, this time for insisting that Florida and Michigan wait and allow the credentials committee to decide whether to seat their delegates,  or submit to a re-vote sanctioned under DNC rules.

First having failed to ‘Play by the Rules’ by holding their State Primaries in January (ahead of the time allowed by the DNC), and then insisting that the Party seat the 366 delegates from the two states whose delegate selection plans violated party rules (which were agreed to by the full DNC — including representatives from Florida and Michigan — more than 18 months ago), Donors from these states are now threatening to rescind contribution pledges to the DNC and worse, demanding that the DNC return sizeable contributions unless their unauthorized State Primaries are counted in the seating of delegates to the Democratic National Convention.

What can we do? We can help counter the financial impact of these renegades’ blackmail of the Party by helping to raise offsetting contributions from the grassroots.  In $20, $40, $100 dollar increments, we can silence their bark and allow the Democratic National Committee, who has led the unparalleled renaissance of the Democratic Party under the leadership of Gov. Dean,  to continue its important work in helping to elect a Democrat to the White House later this year.

Do it today and help spread the word.

Visit https://www.democrats.org/page/contribute/   and do your part!

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