Quote of the Day 2
"There may not be a worst state party in the country."
Chuck Todd, on the Florida Democratic Party screwing up the 2008 Democratic primary.
Update: Kenneth Quinnell informed me that Chuck Todd retracted his statement.
Labels: chuck todd, florida democratic party
posted by Michael Hussey @ 8:03 PM
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4 Comments:
You do know he later retracted this, right?
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2008/03/chuck-todd-take.html
I will make a note of it in the post. I argued this with Gene. Moving up the primary was a stupid on the FDP's part.
You might also want to note that the Florida Democratic Party does not set the election date. Instead the date was set by a law written by the Republican controlled legislature and signed by the Republican Governor. The Democratic legislative leadership objected to the January 29th date and tried to remove that from the bill before it passed the legislature.
The Governor and legislature set the earliest the primaries can be held. The FDP (including Bill Nelson and Karen Thurman) voted to hold the Dem primary on Jan 29 against the DNC rules.
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