Is the Democratic boycott pledge off?
That's what the Hillary Clinton team implied in a conference call today bashing Barack Obama for running ads in Florida - and every other state - as part of the national cable TV buy. Obama Campaign manager David Plouffe responded in another call that the Obama campaign had permission from SC Democratic chair Carol Fowler and that Clinton campaigning in Florida would silly given the insignificance of the state's primary.
"To ascribe any import to (Florida's primary) would be a serious mistake,'' said Plouffe, noting that no delegates are at stake and there has been no campaigning. Rep. Robert Wexler agreed on the presidential race, but said he hopes the boycott pledge holds.
"All the candidates made a pledge, and I hope all the candidates will keep that pledge,'' Wexler said.
Meanwhile Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused elected Obama supporters in Florida of trying to suppress the Democratic vote by discouraging people from voting in the presidential nomination. She wouldn't name names, but Buzz caught up with Diane Glasser (we're guessing a Clinton supporter, but she wouldn't say) who complained that she saw Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter tell a group of senior ladies at King's Point condo complex recently how meaningless the Democratic primary is, in what Glasser saw a message to depress turnout among likely Clinton backers.
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