Florida delegate cuts anger some Clinton, Sanders supporters
Florida delegate cuts anger some Clinton, Sanders supporters
By MATT DIXON 7:43 p.m. | May. 21, 2016
ORLANDO — Potential Democratic delegates for both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders were vocally upset on Saturday after they arrived at a party meeting here to discover they were not included on the final ballot.
Rules agreed to by the Clinton and Sanders campaigns, and approved by Florida Democratic Party leaders, allowed each campaign to take the original list of hundreds of potential at-large delegates and cut them down to roughly 90.
Many of those who were cut had not been informed, and several complained about the process and the expenses they had incurred to travel to Orlando for the meeting.
“There is something wrong with this party if they knock me off,” shouted Paullette Sims Wimberly, a Clinton delegate candidate from Hillsborough County, just outside the ballroom where the meeting was held.
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