Rep. Wexler's (D-Fla.) presentation was quite solid also, and he recommended that the Committee adopt the Ausman petition. Wexler, who has a heavy track record of having tried to redress Florida vote-counting in the aftermath of 2000--actually, what aftermath?--after GWBush got into the White House having lost the election, makes a good case.

He was the only speaker to date to mention that Florida did not apply for early-in-the-calendar status but simply went outside the rules to bump its primary up, again at the instance of its GOP-dominated legislature and GOP governor. Wexler also noted that the Republican national party has already in more streamlined fashion sanctioned its Florida delegation by reducing the pledged delegate vote clout from FL by 50 percent.

Wexler also was the first speaker today to mention--clearly, anyway--that both the Clinton and the Obama campaigns were told definitively that the Florida vote would be non-binding.

The one item on which Wexler, representing the Obama campaign, seems to differ with the proposal put forth by Jon Ausman is that Wexler suggested reducing Florida's superdelegate vote by one-half also, rather than just the pledged delegate vote.

To a question of whether the campaigns would then get to "re-slate," Wexler responded that at present, Florida has no delegation. If Florida is awarded delegates by the Rules committee, then each campaign should get the opportunity to review the slate, Wexler said.

Sounds sensible. As he pointed out, the proposal would net Clinton 19 more delegates from Florida than Obama--meaning that it would better her take from most of the states in which the two candidates competed.

One of the better questions for Sen. Nelson was that from Ms. Griffin, who reminded those present that, as Nelson repeatedly said, "Florida voters were told over and over again that their vote would not count--and they voted anyway." Griffin asked about those less savvy voters who believed what they were told--and therefore did not vote: "How do we right that wrong?"

It would be sad not to right it. The plight of those who showed up to vote in Florida is touching--and has been addressed much more by Rep. Wexler and others than it ever was addressed by Sen. Clinton. But the situation of those who were told not to vote is at least equally touching.