Tampa Bay.com
The Hillary Clinton campaign has yet to express any interest in negotiating a solution to Florida's delegate mess, but a couple key Barack Obama staffers - delegate operations director Jeff Berman and political director Matt Nugen called state Democratic chairwoman Karen Thurman to talk about possible ways to give Florida a voice in the nomination. "We're just looking for solutions," said Obama spokesman Bill Burton.
St Pete Times
To hear her campaign tell it, Hillary Rodham Clinton is fighting the good fight to give Florida Democrats a say in the presidential primary, while Barack Obama is blocking her noble efforts. "This new strategy of denying and disempowering and disenfranchising the voters in Florida and Michigan is, I believe, a terrible mistake,'' Bill Clinton said in Indiana on Monday. "Hillary believes their votes should be counted." Nice try. But with every passing day, Sen. Clinton looks like the one most likely to disenfranchise Florida Democrats, not Sen. Obama. At a time when finding a real solution to the stalemate has grown critical, Team Clinton continues bellowing about the two options most everyone in Florida knows are impossible: counting the results from the Jan. 29 primary or holding an entirely new primary election by June. At least the Obama campaign, which for so long was dismissive of the Florida results, is opening the door for viable solutions to this primary debacle.
On Tuesday, the Clinton campaign continued to push for either fully counting the Jan.29 result -- which the DNC has blocked -- or holding a new vote in Florida, which state officials have dismissed. Some Clinton supporters in Florida want each delegate counted as half a vote. Kirk Wagar, a Coconut Grove attorney who is one of Obama's top fundraisers, blamed Clinton for not compromising. "We've been willing to do something that, frankly, even goes to her benefit, but we can't negotiate with ourselves."
This points ou tthat some FL Clinton supporters want the 1/2 vote plan. Also Obama's people want to negotiate but clinton won't. It's becoming a pattern in these articles that Clinton's people want it their way or the highway. Others will accept plans other than Clinton's but she won't allow it. How can anyone keep claiming that she is trying to make sure all the votes count when it's so obvious this is all about her winning?
