Take Your Money Ball and Go Home!
I've created a $28,500 fundraising page at the DNC's website to replace the amount Miami businessman and big-money DNC donor Paul Cejas donated in 2007, and which he says he'll demand back from the DNC if the Florida delegates aren't seated. Never mind that the Florida legislators, both Democrats and Republicans alike, as well the the Florida Democratic Party, were all complicit in the loss of Florida's (my home state, btw) delegates by moving the primary date up ahead of the four designated early states that the DNC members had previously agreed to.
You can find lots of great background information and analysis in nj mom's McAuliffe ambushing Dean? diary so I don't really need to add to what she said. Just donate if you haven't already, whatever you can afford. And if you already have, thank you!! Even though it didn't go through the above fundraising page, the DNC staffers read Daily Kos and I'm sure they know where the sudden spike in donations this weekend is coming from. From what I've seen by scanning the related diaries and comments on this issue, it looks like at least a thousand bucks has been raised already!
Howard Dean is the best thing to happen to the DNC and the grassroots in decades, and we the little people are tired of our Democratic representatives being held hostage by wealthy donors who favor one candidate or the other. This is our party and we're taking it back!
So let's tell Paul Cejas, Take Your Money Ball and Go Home!
(Yes I realize it's a dumb name, but it's too early for me to be creative. So there.)
Also, see Glinda's diary Send Howard Dean Some Love Today for her own fundraising page, via ActBlue!