Their fault.

Via Washington Times:

The chairman of the Democratic Convention is denying there was any controversy about the way he managed the vote on changes to the party’s platform involving God and Jerusalem Wednesday, instead putting the onus on the delegates themselves for failing to object to his ruling.

“There wasn’t any controversy,” Antonio Villaraigosa, the mayor of Los Angeles, told The Washington Times Thursday. “The delegates had 10 minutes to make an objection and they didn’t.”

When asked if the delegates knew they had the right to object, he said simply: “The delegates know the rules.”

Republicans have already jumped at the controversy, which marred the hopes of Democratic organizers to project a smooth and unified message on the convention’s second day.

In a chaotic few minutes at the podium, Mr. Villaraigosa Wednesday called for three separate voice votes on restoring the references to God and Jerusalem as Israel’s capital to the platform, before finally concluding — over the vocal objections of many on the floor — that the motion had passed by the required two-thirds majority.

A delegate objection presumably would have forced a time-consuming roll-call vote of all 6,000 delegates in attendance, a spectacle that would have served up a made-for-TV display of Democratic disunity for viewers across the country to see.

“It was my prerogative — it was my decision and I made it, but there wasn’t any controversy,” he insisted.