Florida's Hillary supporters protest at DNC, pretend they are not Hillary supporters.

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Wed Apr-30-08 05:50 PM
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Florida's Hillary supporters protest at DNC, pretend they are not Hillary supporters.

Hillary Clinton's campaign has been planning rallies across our state, and today they went to DC. Everyone knows it is her campaign doing it, yet they wore shirts with names of other candidates. They said they were not supposed to talk about why.

First we do know it is Hillary's Florida folks doing the rallies.

Hillary rallies across FL against DNC.... surrogates building anger on purpose toward DNC

Rallies are planned Saturday in seven Florida cities, including Miami and Fort Lauderdale, to demand that the national party count Florida's delegates. Hundreds of activists are also expected to ride buses to Washington to rally Wednesday.

"This has to do with our civil rights,'' said Millie Herrera, a potential Clinton convention delegate and the president of the Hispanic Democratic Caucus of Florida. ``No one has the right to invalidate our votes."

More proof it is Hillary's Florida people doing the rallies.

Huff Post: Bus loads, mostly backers of Hillary Clinton head for DC

Buoyed by the results in Pennsylvania, bus loads of Floridians -- mostly backers of Sen. Hillary Clinton -- will head to Washington for an April 30th rally before the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. The group is looking to confront party leaders and argue that the Sunshine State's disqualified January primary results should be counted. They are asking that all 2ll Florida delegates be seated at the August convention in Denver, a decision that would help in the delegate-numbers-game for the New York senator.

The most appalling thing is they pretended to be what they were not....supporters of other candidates. They did not wear Hillary shirts, only one person did. Someone committed a gaffe and outed them.

First Read: Angry Floridians

From NBC's Mike Viqueira
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A small but very fired up group of Floridians rallied in the street outside the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters here today, demanding that their primary votes be counted and threatening to literally block the doors of the Democratic Convention if they aren't.

"We will shut down the convention!" exclaimed Rep. Corrine Brown. "If we are not seated, then nobody is going to be seated!"

Brown, a superdelegate pledged to Clinton, addressed a crowd of about 150 who had been bused up to D.C. from Florida this week under the auspices of LULAC, an Hispanic advocacy group. Though Brown and another super who spoke -- Rep. Hilda Solis -- are in the Clinton camp, organizers went out of their way to remove any hint that they favored one or the other Democrat in the race. Many in the crowd wore T-shirts with the name of each Democratic candidate, from Kucinich to Dodd to Richardson to Obama, printed across the back in the shape of a rainbow. There was but one Hillary '08 shirt or button to be seen.

"We're not supposed to talk about that," confided Harriet Meltzer, 83, a member in good standing of the Del Ray Democratic Club, though she allowed that she was, in fact, a Clinton supporter. "What's he going to do when he goes to the Middle East?" she asked of Obama, who she deems to be lacking in experience. "Charm them?"

Once again they used the tactic of taunting Howard Dean. They do it at every rally. It is tasteless.

...."Protesters eventually turned their ire on Howard Dean, literally calling him out with taunting chants of, "Be a man, Howard!" and "Where is Howard!?"

Notice once again Debbie Wasserman Schultz escapes scrutiny. No one in the article mentioned that she was the main speaker....and is co-chair of Hillary's campaign.

Protest at the DNC

There is video at the link. Wasserman Schultz is angry.

WASHINGTON -- About 250 Floridians – most of them Latino – who are upset with the stalemate over the state’s presidential delegates demonstrated outside of Democratic National Committee headquarters Wednesday.

Peacefully chanting “Florida Must Count!’ and “Count Our Votes!” while carrying placards and miniature Florida flags, many of the demonstrators acknowledged they were backers of Hillary Clinton.

But organizers depicted the event as aimed at a larger issue, and that it was not intended to boost Clinton.

But again someone gives them away...they are for Hillary, that is why they are there. Someone has really organized the Latinos to go to DC.

Standing in the crowd, Fred Araque, 66, a truck driver from Spring Hill, Fla., pointed to his wife Adela, 65, and said, “She is for Hillary, and I am for Hillary."

“I think most of the people here are for Hillary,” said Araque.

That should not be surprising. Clinton, who trails Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential delegate tally, has been saying her victory in Florida’s Jan. 29 primary should count for some delegates.

Here it comes...Debbie WS finally gets mentioned as Hillary's co-chair.

At the rally Wednesday, among those selected to speak behind a podium set at the entrance of DNC headquarters included Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston, Fla., a national Clinton campaign co-chairwoman, and Kim Gandy, the National Organization for Women president who has endorsed Clinton.

Speaking to the crowd, Wasserman Schultz suggested that disregarding the Jan. 29 primary ballot choices of 1.7 million Florida Democratic primary voters could alienate these voters in a key presidential swing-state.

“We can’t begin this general election with one hand tied behind our back,” Wasserman Schultz said.

Dean was not there, but the DNC had a sign up which is visible in the video at the link. It reminded the people from Florida that their threats to vote for McCain would mean 4 more years of Bush.

DNC chairman Howard Dean was in Connecticut, and did not address the crowd.

During the rally, DNC officials passed out bottles of water. They also handed out fliers reminding the protestors that Dean had stood alongside Florida members of Congress on the same steps outside DNC headquarters in early April to say he is committed to seating a Florida delegation. The DNC even sought to make lemonade, at least for a day, out of the sour taste the party’s action has left in the mouth of many Floridians.

Even before the Florida protestors had arrived at DNC headquarters, national party staffers put up a banner over the headquarter entrance, sure to be visible in any TV coverage of the event.

It read: “John McCain = 3rd Bush Term.”

If you are going to have rallies to support your candidate, then be who you are. Do not use the deceptive tactics of the Republicans. Don't pretend to be something you are not.