While I just signed up to be a Digital Delegate for the 2008 Republican National Convention this September in Minneapolis-St. Paul, I think Democrats are still licking wounds inflicted over another Paul. Former friend of 42nd President Bill Clinton and his wife and waning contendor for 44th President, Hillary Clinton, Peter Paul is living in a villa in Brazil trying to recover two million dollars reportedly stolen from him by Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign for United States Senator. Heading the 1984 United States' Bicentennial Celebration under his belt, Peter Paul claimed that he cut a business deal with outgoing Bill Clinton but got the shakedown and the switch to the ambitious First Lady. Paul filed a federal lawsuit and while he sojourned in Brazil got picked up by Interpol and spent time in a prison in the Amazon jungle while his case proceeded in the United States without him. He lost, but the Federal Election Committee attributed the fault Hillary Clinton's campaign staffers earning her a spot on Judicial Watch's Ten Most Corrupt Politician List and her own tribute: Hillary Watch 2006. This last Saturday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) decided to discount by one half delegates won in the violative Michigan and Florida primaries held on January 29th this year a week before February 5th's Super Tuesday. In the case of the State of Florida, the DNC overrode a bill passed by the Florida legislature to give voters in that state more influence in choosing the Presidential nominee. Even though Michigan and Florida could have waited a week to have all delegates counted and garner sufficient attention from the remaining candidates for the Democratic nomination, the DNC's chose to halve the concentration of so-called swing-state delegates crucial in the 2000 election and focus on smaller primaries and caucuses like South Carolina and Nevada that have less big money influence due to less voters. Senators like Diane Feinstein D-CA and Lamar Alexander R-TN are moving a bill to allow a regional rotational system for party primaries starting 2012. Recalling a phone call made to Alexander's Senate office in Washington D.C., I was told to contact staff member Qu'ran Folsom in Memphis. Unfortunately Supreme Court precedent like Bush v. Gore did not motivate DNC party heads to consider the four million electorate in Florida alone. Hopefully, no other party loyals are languishing in third world prison.
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