As if Jennifer Moore’s treatment of Jeff Noble (she’s still doing it) wasn’t bad enough, get a load of this.

Twenty people (delegates) have filed a complaint or challenge against Ruth Ann Palumbo and the Kentucky Democratic Party for failure to implement a plan approved by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee. Both Chairwoman Jennifer Moore and Executive Director Jeremy Horton are named in the challenge.

Long story short, Jennifer Moore replaced three pledged male Clinton delegates with three females after being notified by the DNC that the gender balance of Kentucky’s delegation was imbalanced. Jennifer replaced one of the Clinton delegates (Todd Hollenbach) with a female Obama delegate, which doesn’t quite fly by the rules, as you might imagine. Jennifer’s own family is involved and named in the challenge.

It is time for Jennifer Moore to resign. The Kentucky Democratic Party is now the laughing stock of the nation. Our sources at the DNC reveal to us that the national party is more than pissed at Kentucky and sees this as a legitimate complaint. Way to go, KDP!

UPDATE: PolWatchers put together a story sometime after Page One and provides some additional details.

“The DNC certified the entire Kentucky Delegation and we are focused on going to Denver and electing Senator Barack Obama as our nominee. This year more than ever it is important to be unified as Democrats and we are ready to work hard to elect Senator Obama to the White House,” said the party’s statement released through spokesman Thom Karmik.

Olivia Anne Morris Fuchs, a key Kentucky organizer for Clinton, said she and those who are attending the Denver convention all seek the same thing: “a unified, energized, recharged Democratic Party” but not at the expense of the rulebook.

“The reason we’re doing this is that the only thing that separates us from the beasts is the rule of law. We have rules and there is a reason for them, and when we don’t adhere to them no one succeeds and we’re all diminished,” she said.

Thom Karmik’s (AKA “Dilweed Detector” on Bluegrass Report) remarks on behalf of the KDP are interesting. The state party doesn’t even bother to address the concerns of the TWENTY delegates and continues to ignore its own wrongdoing.

Read the rest and all the details after the jump…

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