RNC strips VIP passes from Florida GOP delegation, but lets all delegates on floor

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The Republican National Committee is stripping Florida of more than 160 guest passes at the upcoming party convention in Tampa. Nor will the delegation have prime front-row seats.
By Adam C. Smith
Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA -- Florida’s delegates to the Republican National Convention already knew they were being housed about as far away from the Tampa Bay Times Forum as possible — at Innisbrook Resort in Palm Harbor — as punishment for scheduling an early presidential primary in violation of national party rules.

Now there’s additional good news and bad news for the Florida GOP.

The bad: The Republican National Committee won’t back off on cutting Florida’s voting delegates from 99 to 50, and it will strip Florida of more than 160 guest passes. Nor will the Florida delegation have prime front-row seats at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, as they often have had at prior conventions.

The good: Even though Florida will have only 50 voting delegates on the floor, the RNC will allow another 49 to join the delegation on the floor as "honored guests."

"Florida’s delegate status is not going to be reinstated; they’re going to lose an incredible amount of guest passes; their hotel is not going to be improved," RNC chairman Reince Priebus told the Times this week. "But we will allow their nonvoting members of their delegation floor access."

Florida GOP chairman Lenny Curry, who has yet to release the names of Florida delegates because of uncertainty over their status, called it a big victory.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/08/24/2966999/rnc-strips-vip-passes-from-florida.html#storylink=cpy

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1. they just don't deny the right to vote to minority people we even deny it to our own

we can't be racist