Yesterday three top Florida Democrats filed suit in Federal Court to force the DNC to seat the delegates from Florida at the National Convention. Steve Geller, the Florida Senate Minority Leader, is an undeclared superdelegate and he is joined in the lawsuit by two other plaintiffs — one is a delegate for Sen. Hillary Clinton and the other a delegate for Sen. Barack Obama. Geller estimates that a quarter to a third of the Florida Democratic voters are so outraged by the DNC’s inability to solve this intractable dispute that he fears this might do the Democratic Party in Florida long-term harm.
I have generally stayed away from covering this issue in part because I know little about it and in part because other blogs do it so well, especially TalkLeft and The Confluence. But there is one issue that confuses me a bit. This is only an issue for the DNC and not the RNC. Why is it that the RNC solved their Michigan and Florida mess and the Democratic leadership can not? I think three individuals are largely responsible for this mess: Howard Dean, Donna Brazile, and Barack Obama.