Dean to raise $$ in Miami

Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee won't (at least not yet) count Florida when it comes to convention delegates.

But they'll happily take the state's money.

Dean is scheduled to attend a $1,000 per person Coral Gables fundraiser tonight at attorney Roy Black's home.

Not in attendance: former state Rep. Elaine Bloom, a Miami Democrat who say's she's "very upset" with the state's outsider status and has told friends to remind Dean that when the state Legislature was looking at moving up the primary, that the threat on the table from the DNC was the loss of half the state's delegates.

"And that's what we ought to go back to," she said, noting that the national Republican party punished Florida in that fashion, stripping the state of just half its delegates. Florida lost all its delegates for participating in the early primary, which violated the national party's rules.