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What is it like being a perpetual punch line? Florida has known the feeling ever since the presidential election debacle of 2000. And now, it has the creeping feeling that the joke may be on it again as it tries to figure out how to get its delegates seated in the Democratic convention...
...options for Florida Dems seem to have boiled down to two: Let the results of its renegade Jan. 29 primary stand or, as Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean proposes, pay for a privately administered mail-in primary to replace the results of the earlier "unsanctioned" vote. (In January, the state had bucked DNC rules and set its own earlier primary date. The DNC cracked down, forbidding candidates to raise funds or campaign for that vote; furthermore, its 210 delegates would not be seated at the convention...
...Wednesday, Florida's Democratic Party sent a proposal for a combination mail-in and in-person primary to Dean, the DNC and the Clinton and Obama campaigns. A draft seen by TIME sets up a 45-day process with all mail-in ballots due by June 3, primary day. While the proposal does not go into who exactly will pay for the procedure, it sets aside a one-month period for "fundraising." Florida State Democratic Party Press Secretary Alejandro Mayar said the plan includes all aspects of the mail-in scenario. Says Mayar, "It's a very detailed plan...
...debacle is far from over. On Thursday, the first batch of comments to reach Karen Thurman, the head of Florida's Democratic Party whose name is on the proposal, was negative. Democratic members of the Florida House of Representatives had already released a statement saying that they are "opposed to a mail-in campaign or any redo of any kind." On Wednesday, Geller reiterated that Florida's delegates be seated and released a poll of 600 Florida Democrats that found that one in four would not vote for the Democratic nominee for President if Florida was disenfranchised. "A Democratic nominee...
...Ball State put away two runs that proved to be the first of many. The Crimson committed four errors to Ball State’s one over seven innings. Sophomore Margaux Black saw time at the mound, allowing only one run in her single inning of play. HARVARD 2, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL 0 Nearing the end of the tournament, the team was ready for a change of pace. “We were done losing,” captain Shelly Madick said. “We all wanted to win.” Harvard ended its eight-game losing streak...