"The gang who can't shoot straight"....

[madfloridian]

Steve Geller seems to be getting the message. He is the one, remember, who threatened to sue IA, NH, NV, and SC as terrorist rogue states. He said that right in front of a group of business professionals...was he joking? Probably not.

Geller says Dean not welcome and calls first 4 states rogue states.

Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller, who on Wednesday labeled Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina “terrorist, rogue states” for coercing Democratic presidential candidates not to campaign in Florida in advance of its Jan. 29 primary, on Thursday announced he will not be attending a Tallahassee fundraiser held by the head terrorist himself, Democratic chairman Howard Dean.

“He’s welcome in certain, small enclaves of the state,” Geller told the Q. “If you don’t have something nice to say about someone, you shouldn’t say anything at all. Therefore I will not go.”

In fact Geller actually said he might sue those states.

Senate leader ponders suing 'rogue states' over primary

WEST PALM BEACH — Florida Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller called Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina "terrorist rogue states" and said he's contemplating a lawsuit against them for pressuring Democratic presidential candidates to boycott Florida.

Geller, of Cooper City, made the remarks to a Democratic Professionals Council luncheon audience of about 50 on Wednesday. He was the group's replacement speaker after the originally scheduled headliner, New Mexico Gov. and presidential hopeful Bill Richardson, canceled because of the pledge not to campaign in Florida.

The man simply does not give up. He just keeps on.

However, Steve Geller really shines in his latest comments.

TALLAHASSEE - The battle raging between Florida Democrats and their national leaders over the state's primary date is already costing the party money and grassroots support — but now some worry it will cost votes that could be crucial if the 2008 presidential contest is a squeaker.

"It's reinforcing the image of the gang that can't shoot straight," said state Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller of Cooper City.

Squabble over Florida presidential primary may haunt Democrats

Yes. Steve, it does give that image. You really nailed that one.

The Miami Herald's Jim Porin says it so well in his latest cartoon.



http://www.miamiherald.com/jim_morin/image_media/244737.html

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1. The sad fact is that...

All of these states that want earlier and earlier primaries want them because their local TV stations will make lots of money and they can leverage national candidate fundraising for local candidate and state party fundraising.

Just another reason why real campaign reform is so desperately needed.

[madfloridian]

2. But not every state is going to sue everyone else over it.

:think:

And few in other states called the first 4 states terrorists and tell Dean he is not welcome.

[madfloridian]

3. Must have been quite a business lunch...one candidate walked out..

And that is in addition to a state senator calling 4 other states rogue terrorists. :think:

House candidates’ lunch clash

Florida Democratic Senate Leader Steve Geller’s “terrorist rogue states” remarks weren’t the only fireworks at Wednesday’s Palm Beach County Democratic Professionals Council lunch in West Palm Beach.

State House hopeful Rick Ford was seen leaving the Columbia Restaurant before Geller spoke with a returned $35 check in hand. He says he was turned away from the event by DPC founder Bryan Miller, who’s running against Ford in the District 83 Democratic primary.

[madfloridian]

4. Update...some truth finally from a blog which has stood much with Florida

and painted Dean and the DNC in a very poor light.

A Democrat pushed to move Florida's primary date

When the hubbub over Florida’s new presidential primary date began, the Florida Democratic Party was quick to blame the Republican-led state legislature for a change that violated national Dem Party rules and introduced the state party to a world of hurt. It turns out, however, that it was actually a Democratic state senator who introduced the original legislation that moved the primary date to Jan. 29. Hmmm.

But when newly spineful state party chair Karen Thurman gathered the Democratic faithful around her last weekend to announce that the state party would defiantly promote the Jan. 29 vote as a “real” election that “counts,” the man responsible for the original legislation was conspicuously absent.

And that man who unendorsed Obama when Obama followed the rules about not compaigning is painting himself a victim.

“If you turn on the left wing liberal radio down in Broward, I am public enemy number one,” said Ring, who actually campaigned in 2006 on the need for an early primary and makes no apologies for his leading the effort. “I hear that a lot, that I was duped by the Republicans. No one duped me.”

This Jeremy Ring:

Florida Dem who pushed for early primary just "unendorsed" Obama.

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5. what's the best way to kick Ring out of the party?