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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Friday, March 14, 2008

Clinton backers demand DNC refund if Florida doesn't count.

Are they demanding a return from the Florida Democratic party? No. This is obviously a ploy for leverage.
Reflecting how tense the situation has become, influential fund-raisers for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton have stepped up their behind-the-scenes pressure on national party leaders to resolve the matter, with some even threatening to withhold their donations to the Democratic National Committee unless it seats the delegates from the two states or holds new primaries there.


Of course, it did get them coverage of their "outrage" in the NYTimes.

Notice who we're talking about here, two very rich, very connected Clinton backers, ("It's all so unfair.....") two guys who just happen to end up connected with a NYTimes reporter, and not even a "name" reporter, but a junior desperate for a story?

This is a manufactured. Watch how it's covered.

(Later: Where's the chanting mob, "Let us vote, let us vote...?")