Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: No Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren. We need a moderate, South Florida Democrats tell their party. [View all]delisen
(7,458 posts)shut down the ballot counting in Miami.
A detailed account by the pro-Republican Wall Street Journal confirms that last week's mini-riot outside the offices of the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board was organized and financed by the Bush-Cheney campaign and top leaders in the Republican Congress.
On November 22, a violent crowd of about 150 Republican Party protesters rampaged through Miami's County Hall after the canvassing board decided to concentrate its recount on the approximately 10,000 undervotesballots for which no presidential choice had been registered by the original machine count. The Republican demonstrators banged and kicked on the doors and windows of the 19th floor office where the board had moved the count, as well as physically assaulting a number of Democratic Party representatives on the scene.
Not long after the Republican rampage, the board decided to stop its manual recount of the county's presidential ballots altogether. The hand recount had been authorized the previous day by the Florida Supreme Court. It is widely acknowledged in the press that the board's action meant that hundreds of votes, mostly for Democratic candidate Al Gore, went uncounted as a result.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2000/11/riot-n29.html
By October, 2019 the news about climate change and the flooding of Florida is going to be all over the media.
Florida real estate collapse may occur at any point after.
I would suggest the party insiders in Florida get ready for the new playing field.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided