Comments on: A Modest Proposal for Florida http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/07/obama-should-pay-for-florida-primary/ personal blog of a geek Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:20:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Roger Berlind http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/07/obama-should-pay-for-florida-primary/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Roger Berlind Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:33:07 +0000 http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/07/obama-should-pay-for-florida-primary/#comment-4 It's looking more and more likely that Florida will hold a new primary which will be funded by soft money donations raised either directly from the Florida Democratic Party or by the Clinton and Obama campaigns. In fact, Senator Bill Nelson proposed a soft money financed mail-in primary which the DNC and Governor Crist of Florida effectively agreed to. The DNC also agreed that it would be legal for the Florida Democratic Party to raise soft money for this purpose even though the DNC itself would not be allowed to. Additionally, James Carville (representing the Clinton campaign) indicated on CNN's Situation Room that he could line up $15 Million in donations very quickly if the Obama campaign agreed to do the same. See my blog posts at http://logicalandtrue.wordpress.com for more details about all this. The link to the Newsweek article is http://www.newsweek.com/id/119901 It's looking more and more likely that Florida will hold a new primary which will be funded by soft money donations raised either directly from the Florida Democratic Party or by the Clinton and Obama campaigns. In fact, Senator Bill Nelson proposed a soft money financed mail-in primary which the DNC and Governor Crist of Florida effectively agreed to. The DNC also agreed that it would be legal for the Florida Democratic Party to raise soft money for this purpose even though the DNC itself would not be allowed to. Additionally, James Carville (representing the Clinton campaign) indicated on CNN's Situation Room that he could line up $15 Million in donations very quickly if the Obama campaign agreed to do the same.

See my blog posts at http://logicalandtrue.wordpress.com for more details about all this.

The link to the Newsweek article is http://www.newsweek.com/id/119901

]]> By: Patrick http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/07/obama-should-pay-for-florida-primary/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Patrick Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:40:00 +0000 http://www.jrrl.com/2008/03/07/obama-should-pay-for-florida-primary/#comment-3 I was having this same discussion yesterday. Obama will lose Florida, but he's still going to win the Dem nomination. In the GE he'd have a lot of good will built up in fla, and those who say they would only vote for HRC might change their tune. I was having this same discussion yesterday. Obama will lose Florida, but he's still going to win the Dem nomination. In the GE he'd have a lot of good will built up in fla, and those who say they would only vote for HRC might change their tune.

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