And they did it anyway. Obama's Florida finance manager has some words on the subject.
And the Jon Ausman raising hell about the Obama delegates... the fellow at the DNC meeting who submitted the petition? More about him.
Ausman, by the way, pulled a stunner the other day when he endorsed Hillary Clinton just hours before Obama cinched the nomination.
More on this topic being pushed as a way to anger everyone here...Ausman is sending emails around to stir things up.
Activist warns of delegate "purge."Ausman writes in a widely distributed e-mail: "So, at immediate risk are the sixty-seven (67) persons chosen as Obama delegates and the alternates chosen to support Obama...I believe the news stories in the hometown papers of those removed would be detrimental to the unifying and healing process our Party needs as we make plans to promote Senator Obama's campaign... There are ways around this problem but I suspect this purge is personal rather than political.''
Ausman, by the way, pulled a stunner the other day when he endorsed Hillary Clinton just hours before Obama cinched the nomination.
Ausman urges the delegates who want to keep their seats to contact two of Obama's leading supporters in the state: Kirk Wagar, the campaign's finance chairman, and Allan Katz, a DNC member who serves on the rules committee. Seeking their responses...
UPDATE: Wagar says "it's possible" some Obama delegates will be replaced. He and other Obama surrogates repeatedly urged the state party not to pick the delegate slate until the dispute with the DNC was resolved, to no avail. Meanwhile, some Obama stalwarts were left in the lurch.
In one article Wagar only 10 delegates at the most would be involved. That is their right.
Wagar is getting a little irritated at the way Ausman the media and Florida bloggers are pushing this issue to be so negative. Hark back to what I said many times about how the Florida bloggers, well organized, never spoke and told the truth about the vote for the early primary.
Think the Florida Democratic primary fight is over?Think again. There's apparently only been a pause while state party activists look for a new battlefield.
They may have found one Friday.
Tallahassee activist Jon Ausman is sending out e-mail warnings that the Barack Obama campaign is considering replacing some or all of the 67 Florida delegates already selected to represent the campaign at the party's national convention in Denver.
"This purge is dangerous, risky, and frankly, politically unwise," Ausman warned in an e-mail to state party members.
Kirk Wagar, Obama's state finance chairman, in an e-mail response, acknowledged the campaign was evaluating the delegates chosen for the convention. But he added, "the process is just beginning."
"We have been working like dogs to minimize knocking folks out who are truly Obama folks," Wagar said. "People who simply want a free trip to Denver are not my concern."
To Kirk Wagar I say :applause:
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