{"id":4956,"date":"2008-03-15T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/if-youre-not-going-to-count-my.html"},"modified":"2008-03-15T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T11:16:05","slug":"if-youre-not-going-to-count-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/if-youre-not-going-to-count-my.html","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIf you\u2019re not going to count my vote, I\u2019m not going to give you my money\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

That<\/a> seems to be the feeling of some of the Florida donors to the DNC, they want their vote counted:<\/p>\n

Democrats in Michigan and Florida struggled Friday to resolve the impasse over their disputed January primaries, coming up with a plan to hold a June primary in Michigan while remaining deadlocked in Florida.
\nReflecting how tense the situation has become, influential fund-raisers for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have stepped up their behind-the-scenes pressure on national party leaders to resolve the matter, with some even threatening to withhold their donations to the Democratic National Committee unless it seats the delegates from the two states or holds new primaries there.
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\nPushing 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.
\n\u201cIf you\u2019re not going to count my vote, I\u2019m not going to give you my money,\u201d said Mr. Cejas, who was the United States ambassador to Belgium from 1998 to 2001.
\nChristopher 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\u2019s delegate conundrum was not settled satisfactorily he would be asking for the money back.
\n\u201cIf we do not resolve this issue,\u201d Mr. Korge said, \u201cI think it\u2019s safe to say there will be a request for a return of $140,000.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s amazing to me that in the year of the Democrat when Republicans have handed over a clear victory by nominating an unpopular Senator, when the nation is sick of Republicans and the war and when Democrats are poised to pick up more seats in the House and the Senate. they would botch it this badly. If McCain actually wins in November, the Democrats have only themselves to blame because it’s their’s to lose.
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