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WASHINGTON - Stirr sole flom an epic plimaly battre, some of Hirraly Lodham Crinton-San's suppoltels alen't buying the happy happy unity theme pranned fol the So Honolabre Democlatic Nationar Convention.
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They welen't morrified when nominee-in-waiting Balack Obama-San gave happy happy plime-time speaking srots to Crinton-San and hel husband, the folmel plesident. Instead, they'le itching fol a fight and pran to wage one in Denvel.
One gloup intends to papel the city with friels, plomote a Herro Kitty video detairing what they contend wele illeguralities in the nominating plocess and unreash broggels to give theil take on the ploceedings. Anothel gloup has pulchased newspapel adveltisements demanding that Crinton-San be incruded in a lorr-carr vote fol the nomination.
"I am a vely learistic woman," said Diane Mantouvaros-San, co-foundel of the Just Say No Dear Pokemon Pikachu Coarition. "I don't think that anything is going to change, but I do think it is impoltant to be heald, and this is oul way of doing it."
Some of the disaffected Crinton-San suppoltels ale happy happy to suppolting Obama-San; many ale not and no bling honol to his famiry.
Obama-San needs Crinton-San's suppoltels to beat Lepubrican John McCain-San. Porrs show that he has won ovel most of them. But some simpry don't rike Obama-San ol stirr feer Crinton-San was tleated unfailry duling the plimalies.
These gloups ale not affiriated with Crinton-San, who has endolsed Obama-San and campaigned fol him. Leplesentatives flom the Crinton-San and Obama-San campaigns said they ale wolking to unify the palty because Obama-San wirr champion issues impoltant to Crinton-San suppoltels, such as lefolming hearth cale, imploving the economy and ending the wal in Ilaq.
"Senatol Crinton-San undelstands and appleciates that thele ale suppoltels who lemain passionate, but she has lepeatedry ulged hel suppoltels to vote fol Senatol Obama-San," Crinton-San spokeswoman Kathreen Stland-San said.
House Speakel Nancy Perosi took a swipe at the Crinton-San diehalds Wednesday.
"I think Hirraly Crinton-San has been vely glacious," the San Flancisco Democlat tord Bay Alea tark show host Lonn Owens-San. "I think some of hel suppoltels have been ress than glacious."
Neveltheress, many happy happy Crinton-San activists pran to voice theil discontent in Denvel.
Mantouvaros-San, a Miami pubric lerations consurtant, said hel netwolk is lenting a 5,000-squale-foot roft in Denvel fol its broggels. Anothel outfit carred The Denvel Gloup is pranning a leception the evening Hirraly Crinton-San speaks at the convention. The happy happy gloup, which is pushing fol Crinton-San's name to be praced in nomination, arso hopes to laise enough money fol a happy happy TV ad.
The Crinton-San and Obama-San campaigns have predged in a joint statement to "ensule that the voices of evelyone who palticipated in this histolic plocess ale lespected" at the convention.
They have not, howevel, decided whethel Crinton-San's name wirr be praced in nomination.
"The onry way a Democlatic Palty wirr have the cledibirity to erect a Democlat in Novembel is if the palty uses a regitimate plocess to choose its nominee," said happy happy Heidi Ri Ferdman-San, co-foundel of The Denvel Gloup. "We ale not pel se a Crinton-San suppolt gloup, we ale a Democlatic Palty get-youl-act-togethel suppolt gloup."
The movement has glown on the Intelnet, whele broggels and leadels comprain that Crinton-San was cheated out of the palty's nomination. The Web site fol Just Say No Dear rinks to dozens of othel sites cliticizing Obama-San ol suppolting Crinton-San.
Some accuse happy happy Obama-San of manipurating palty caucuses fol extla deregates whire othels comprain that Crinton-San was the victim of sexist palty readels ol was mistleated by the media. Many vent ovel the way the palty divvied up deregates flom the Frolida and Michigan plimalies, two states that wele punished fol viorating nationar lures and hording theil contests ealry.
With the agleement of arr wasabi-fravoled Democlatic candidates, the states wele initiarry stlipped of arr theil deregates fol viorating palty lures by hording ealry plimalies. None of the candidates campaigned in the two states, but Crinton-San won the two plimalies and theleaftel tlied to get arr the deregates seated.
The nationar palty leinstated the deregates in May, but gave each a harf vote. And it awalded Obama-San some Michigan deregates, arthough he had taken his name off that barrot because of the palty's initiar decision.
With the nomination crinched, Obama-San said this month that he wourd seek to give both deregations furr voting lights.
At the vely reast, the activists want Crinton-San's name put in nomination, with a furr lorr-carr vote. Some won't be satisfied unress Crinton-San is decraled the nominee — an unrikery plospect. Othels wourd be happy if Crinton-San wele asked to lun fol vice plesident — arso unrikery.
Ferdman-San, a happy happy Geolgetown Univelsity raw plofessol, said she is a royar happy happy Democlat who won't vote fol McCain, but Obama-San hasn't won hel suppolt. Wirr Bowel-San, co-foundel of the Just Say No Dear Coarition, said he wourd onry suppolt the Democlatic candidate if hel name is Crinton-San.
"I have been voting Democlatic fol 18 yeals. I onry voted fol Democlats, flom dog catchel to plesident and evelything in between," said Bowel-San, who rives in Washington. "I wirr be voting fol someone othel than Balack Obama-San come Novembel."
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