Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida. Show all posts

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Only One Rule in a Democracy:

One Person, One Vote


Dear Speaker Pelosi --

I say a clip today of you declaring that the superdelegates should follow "the will of the people." The will of which people? The Will of (Only the Healthy) People?

Housebound, bedbound, and disabled people in Caucus States were forbidden the Absentee Ballot so their precious voices and their will do not show up in the so-called elected delegates, their voices disappeared by 16% of the result in each Caucus State. These people don't matter to us Democrats? I spent my whole life since JFK was shot down on my 19th birthday fighting for the rights of the voiceless.

Superdelegates should be asked to THINK what the will of the people really is and judge wisely. The pledged delegates are a horrible indicator of the will of the people. (About 2000 voters gets you a pledged delegate in Idaho & about it takes about 11,000 voters to get you a delegate in a primary state.) The will of the people? I'm ashamed that such an emminent person in a place to educate us & reform us could be so hypocritical.

Intervene? I pray that you intervene on behalf of the true voice of voters, not snarled & inconsistent & arbitrary Party "rules." There is only one rule in a democracy: one person, one vote.

Sincerely,
:::!!::

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Wednesday, May 21, 2008

By my Life & Sacred Honor - Count the Votes!


Dear Superdelegate,

If I lost my vote, it would be an amputation. Suppose it was YOUR vote which was chosen not to count? I can't bear to think about it. It would break my heart & my very belief in what I thought it meant to be an American.


By my Life & Sacred Honor, I never imagined that votes would be suppressed on such a massive scale with the indifference of my beloved Democratic Party. Since JFK was shot down on my 19th birthday, I've fought for the only equality we are guaranteed in our America -- one voice, one vote.

The VOTERS in FL & MI are blameless. They are citizens whose ONLY voice is their vote. I tremble to think that my Democrats would not fight tooth & claw to count all the votes.

I'm within an inch of feeling completely abandoned by my Democratic Party. Apparently the suppressed votes of housebound & bedbound older women who were forbidden Absentee Ballots in Caucus States don't matter? And we'll just burn the books -- I mean the votes -- of many Florida & Michigan voters' precious votes? If the Republicans were doing this, we'd call it a Mockery of Democracy.

I beg you to count every FL & MI vote or to re-vote.

Sincerely,

..contact caucusdebacle@gmail.com

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