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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (125372)	6/1/2008 1:20:32 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

It started with hundreds of demonstrators chanting outside, until torrential rains drove them away. Inside were the 28 members of the rules committee, who sat under the lights at a U-shaped conference table. Throughout the day, there were multiple outbursts from people in the room, which particularly flared when representatives from Florida made their arguments. The speaker for the Clinton campaign, State Senator Arthenia Joyner of Florida, asked the committee to allow a full vote for each of the state’s 211 disputed delegates. “I want it all,” Ms. Joyner said. “Yes, I’m asking for a full vote.” Representative Robert Wexler of Florida, who was speaking on behalf of the Obama campaign, suggested that each of those delegates receive a half-vote. Mr. Wexler called it an “extraordinary concession, in order to promote reconciliation with Florida’s voters.” Mr. Wexler received the brunt of the anger from a few dozen supporters of Mrs. Clinton who were seated on the ballroom floor. When he outlined the proposal for Florida — a deal that would give Mrs. Clinton 19 delegates more than Mr. Obama — he was jeered for not saying whether he would support a proposal to fully seat the delegates. “Answer the question!” several people shouted. “Yes or no? Yes or no?” And tempers flared in the discussion over Michigan too, especially after the Obama campaign proposed splitting the state’s delegates evenly between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton. At that point, Tina Flournoy, a Clinton adviser and member of the rules committee, said Mr. Obama’s proposal essentially called for overriding the will of the voters. nytimes.com