{"id":958,"date":"2008-03-06T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/michigan-and-florida-my-two-favorite-states\/"},"modified":"2008-03-06T09:34:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T17:34:56","slug":"michigan-and-florida-my-two-favorite-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/06\/michigan-and-florida-my-two-favorite-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan and Florida, My Two Favorite States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/nowhining.jpg\" alt=\"No Whining\" height=100 width=100 \/><\/div>\n<p><b>Not!<\/b><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s just make sure we&#8217;re getting this right. Both Michigan and Florida unilaterally decide to move their primaries forward without the consent of the Democratic National Committee. Both states were warned, if you do this, we will punish you by not recognizing your votes at the Convention. Despite that warning, the states moved their primaries ahead anyway and indeed the DNC follow-through with their warning that their votes wouldn&#8217;t count.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-content\/2008\/03\/tanyaharding.jpg\" alt=\"Tanya Harding cries at Olympics for a do over\" width=225 height=144 \/><\/div>\n<p>Now that their vote matters in the race, they want a do over? This reminds me of the Olympics where (no relation) Tanya Harding wanted a do over based on equipment deficiencies. It&#8217;s complete and utter horse hockey. To Florida and Michigan, tough luck, being accountable requires that you accept the consequences of your actions. Let&#8217;s see where your primaries are next election.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMeanwhile, DNC, if you&#8217;ve got a backbone, you&#8217;ll not change a thing. Let the governors whine, they&#8217;ve had their chance. Next!<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/morons.jpg\" alt=\"Michigan Morons License Plate\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not! Let&#8217;s just make sure we&#8217;re getting this right. Both Michigan and Florida unilaterally decide to move their primaries forward without the consent of the Democratic National Committee. Both states were warned, if you do this, we will punish you by not recognizing your votes at the Convention. Despite that warning, the states moved their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}