DNC Under Attack?: Clinton Supporters Planning to "Swarm" DNC

I was reading Jason Links over at HuffPo today, and he mentions a curious move by the Clinton Campaign, from a story in the NY Daily News

The next Democratic donnybrook will be in a Washington ballroom.

Busloads of Hillary Clinton supporters will swarm a meeting next week at a D.C. Marriott, where Democratic Party elders hope to forge a compromise over Florida and Michigan's now-voided convention delegates.

"We really don't know what to expect, but we do know that the Clinton people are very organized," said a senior Democratic National Committee source.

Over the fold..

The DNC has seen this coming, of course, and have set down some rules to try to prevent chaos:

Hoping to avoid a free-for-all at the powwow, the party laid down tough ground rules on Wednesday for its May 31 meeting: "In order to maintain the decorum of the meeting, banners, posters, signs, handouts and noisemakers of any kind are strictly prohibited."

The public also is barred from speaking.

At this meeting, supporters from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Barack Obama campaign are meeting in front of the DNC to whether Florida and Michigan should be seated, or if they can make a compromise over the two states. However, there is an organized move by Clinton Supporters to, as Jason Links notes, recreate the Florida Mob in 2000, a move out of Karl Rove's book.

In my opinion, this shouldn't even be argued. Obama followed all of the rules. Sure, yes, it was a pander to Iowa, but they all did it and followed the rules in agreeing to not campaign in Florida or Michigan. Whether or not Clinton broke these rules in one way, by holding a 'press conference' in Florida, can be argued. However, she did break the rules by not taking her name off of the ballot in Michigan, like the rest of the candidates.

However, HRC won't give in. She's going to take this fight to the Convention, comparing it to Zimbabwe.

"We're seeing that right now in Zimbabwe," Clinton explained. "Tragically, an election was held, the president lost, they refused to abide by the will of the people," Clinton told the crowd of senior citizens at a retirement community in south Florida.

"So we can never take for granted our precious right to vote. It is the single most important, privilege and right any of us have, because in that ballot box we are all equal. You're equal to a billionaire. You're equal to the president, every single one of us."