The first legal challenge to the Democratic National Committee's refusal to seat Florida's delegates to the party's national convention next year was thrown out of federal court Friday. ...more

October 6, 2007

A refusal by the Democratic National Committee to seat Florida's delegates to the national convention next year would be an act of discrimination against black voters, a lawsuit filed Wednesday contends. ...more

October 5, 2007

Sen. Bill Nelson spent more than a month trying to convince Howard Dean to come up with a plan under which the votes made by Florida's Democrats in the January primary would count for something, but the chairman of the Democratic National Committee rebuffed him at every turn. ...more

October 5, 2007

WASHINGTON - Two Florida Democratic members of Congress this morning launched a federal lawsuit against their national party over its threatened refusal to count the state's delegates because of Florida's too-early Jan. 29 primary. ...more

October 4, 2007

Barack Obama hinted during a Tampa fundraiser Sunday that if he's the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he'll seat a Florida delegation at the party's national convention, despite national party sanctions prohibiting it. ...more

October 1, 2007

TAMPA - Barack Obama hinted during a Tampa fundraiser Sunday that if he's the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he'll seat a Florida delegation at the party's national convention, despite national party sanctions prohibiting it. ...more

September 30, 2007

Beleaguered by sanctions because of the state's Jan. 29 primary date, Florida Democrats are casting about for ways to strike back, and revealed a couple of possibilities Saturday. ...more

September 30, 2007

All the major Democratic candidates for president have signed a pledge promising they will only go to Florida or Michigan when they want to raise money. ...more

September 29, 2007

TAMPA - The Democratic National Committee is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a local Democrat who claims the committee will violate citizens' rights if it refuses to seat Florida delegates at the party's national convention. The DNC argues in papers filed this morning that it will not be violating the rights of voters in the state's Democratic primary if it follows its delegate-selection rules and refuses to seat half of the state's delegation to the convention in Denver in August. ...more

September 25, 2007

over the Sunshine State's presidential primary Jan. 29 - only grows more contentious. ...more

September 19, 2007