If you're one of 67 delegates and alternate delegates for Barack Obama in Florida, beware. You may have a target on your back, as the Obama campaign is looking to strip you of your delegate status and replace you with someone of their choosing. We've alerted Buzz readers of this potential mini controversy before, but Jon Ausman raises it again in a mass-email:

"Allan Katz, the representative for the Barack Obama  campaign, has said the Obama campaign will be removing delegates and  alternates so they can be replaced by others the campaign  prefers....I have strongly urged Commissioner Katz NOT to remove  any delegates or alternates because I believe the news stories in the hometown  papers of those removed would be detrimental to the unifying and healing  process our Party needs as we make plans to promote Senator Obama’s  campaign.

"I have also stated that since Senator Obama will  control the floor passes and credentials of the Convention.  Thus it  would easy for the campaign to get those it feels need to be taken care of  onto the floor of the Convention. ...

"...These words have fallen on deaf ears.  Whatever  the reason, Commissioner Katz is going to use the power granted by the DNC RBC  to remove persons already elected as delegates. All Obama delegates and alternates should contact the  Obama campaign representatives and ask to be spared the pending  purge. 

"There are ways around this problem but I suspect this  purge is personal rather than political. I have asked the DNC Delegate Staff Director, Phil  McNamara, for directions on whether the delegation is replacing purged  delegates (which means the full delegation votes on the replacement) or  whether we are re-selecting delegates (which means the FDP SEC would select –  with at least three candidates per position – replacements for  the  at-large and PLEO delegates while new Congressional District caucuses would  need to be held for those selected at that level. 

"The likelihood of Credentials Challenges being filed  before the Credentials Committee  of the Convention is sky high once the  purge is announced."