Hillary supporters ask for their money back if Florida votes don't count.
The Hillary camp are now stepping up the pressure to have the Florida delegates seated and have even resorted to asking for financial donations made to the party to be returned in order to force the DNC to resolve this issue.
This is blatantly part of an orchestrated campaign by the Clinton team to put pressure on the DNC to seat the delegates that Hillary herself used to say should not be seated.Pushing to seat the Florida delegates, at least one top Clinton fund-raiser, Paul Cejas, a Miami businessman who has given the Democratic National Committee $63,500 since 2003, has demanded Democratic officials return his 2007 contribution of $28,500, which they have agreed to do.
“If you’re not going to count my vote, I’m not going to give you my money,” said Mr. Cejas, who was the United States ambassador to Belgium from 1998 to 2001.
Christopher Korge, a Florida real estate developer who is another top fund-raiser for Mrs. Clinton, held an event last year in his home that brought in about $140,000 for the national party, which was set aside in a special account for the general election battle in Florida. But he told committee officials this week that if Florida’s delegate conundrum was not settled satisfactorily he would be asking for the money back.
“If we do not resolve this issue,” Mr. Korge said, “I think it’s safe to say there will be a request for a return of $140,000.”
Of course, she said that when she was convinced that she would have the nomination wrapped up by Super Tuesday. Since she failed to pull that off, and as Obama has streaked ahead of her in the delegate count, Hillary has now decided that a failure to seat these delegates amounts to "disenfranchising the voters of Florida".
Clinton has, astonishingly, been claiming that the delegates should be seated according to the January vote which she won, which is an act of chutzpah which I felt would be beyond even her. How wrong was I?
About 250 top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton met Wednesday in Washington. Terry McAuliffe, the Clinton campaign’s chairman and a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, encouraged the donors to pick up the phone and call party leaders, as did Mrs. Clinton.
But Mr. McAuliffe said in an interview Friday that he did not approve of donors’ holding back their contributions to the D.N.C.
McAuliffe wants us all to know that he does not approve of donor's holding back their contributions? Does anyone believe that? What were these top 250 fund-raisers meeting about if not to discuss ways to help Hillary win the nomination and put pressure on the DNC?
Once again the Hillary camp shows that they will go to any lengths possible to get what they want, whilst looking at you with a straight face and assuring you that what is happening has nothing to do with them.
And, once again, Hillary's supporters put her succeeding in winning the nomination before the good of the party itself.
If the DNC aren't going to play the game in a way which helps Hillary win, then these tossers want their ball back and they're all going to go home in a gargantuan huff. It's petulant and self-serving, which is the perfect description of Hillary's whole campaign when one thinks about it.
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