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OCTOBER 26, 2007

Fuming over Howard Dean

Buttonsdem 100_0071_3 These are a sampling of the buttons scattered among the Democratic activists at the Florida Democratic convention at Disney, where Mike Gravel is the only presidential candidate willing to show his or her face : "I think it definitely will hurt us in Florida. People are getting, really angry,'' said Marsha Berdit, a retired teacher in Jacksonville said of the Democrats' boycotting Florida's Jan. 29 primary.

"Hillary ought to ask her husband. He didn't blow us off,'' said Arlene Farachio, another Jacksonville retiree at a grassroots birthday party for Hillary Clinton. The cake is pictured.

State party communications director Mark Bubriski quipped if he sees any media reporters from Iowa, he'll bar them from the event.

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