In a rare and unusual move, the Democratic National Committee has sanctioned the Florida Democratic Party. Florida tried to move its primary date up to January 29, thwarting previously approved plans of Nevada, South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire. The state has 30 days to submit another plan, or risk losing all of its delegates to the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 2008.
Florida democrats insist that the republican-controlled legislature passed the bill without the support of democratic legislators. Florida GOP chair vows to take all of his delegates to convention, no matter what the RNC does to try to enforce the primary date rules.
This is a perfect example of how the DNC and RNC, strange bedfellows indeed, should band together to stop rogue states from trampling the carefully approved primary and caucus dates. Anything else would throw the entire system into complete chaos.
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