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MARCH 07, 2008

Former DNC Chair's voice snuffed in FL

Curtis Former DNC Chairman and Maine Gov. Kenneth M. Curtis would have been a potentially key super-delegate vote for Hillary Clinton. Except that he moved a couple years from Maine to Sarasota, something only recently noticed. Now he's Florida's 211th would-be delegate (23rd super-delegate) and he no longer has a voice in the nominating process. He thinks the DNC shouldn't have superseded the law of the land in Florida and he doesn't buy the argument that Florida's Jan. 29 election was meaningless because the candidate did not campaign in Florida.

"An awful lot of Florida voters turned out. They seemed to know who the candidates were,'' said Curtis, 77, who has little interest in going to the convention any way. "At my age I can't party enough any more to hit these conventions,'' he laughed.

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