{"id":5815,"date":"2008-03-17T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2008-03-17T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:50:52","slug":"florida-dems-reject-re-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5815","title":{"rendered":"Florida Dems Reject Re-Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensitoreview.com\/\">Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/politicalintelligence\/2008\/03\/florida_democra.html\">now what<\/a>?<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The Florida Democratic Party said this afternoon it won&#8217;t pursue a do-over of its contested primary, putting the dispute squarely in the lap of the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s rules committee next month.<\/p>\n<p>Florida officials had floated the idea last week of a mail-in vote, but questions quickly arose about its logistics and fairness. The consensus from thousands of Democrats is against a revote, Representative Karen L. Thurman, the state party&#8217;s chairwoman, says in a letter to Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A party-run primary or caucus has been ruled out, and it&#8217;s simply not possible for the state to hold another election, even if the Party were to pay for it,&#8221; Thurman writes.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. So now what? The Florida Democratic Party said this afternoon it won&#8217;t pursue a do-over of its contested primary, putting the dispute squarely in the lap of the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s rules committee next month. Florida officials had floated the idea last week of a mail-in vote, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-florida"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}