Sounding Like Sanders, Professor Challenges Democratic Party Chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[Purveyor]

Associated Press
Monday, April 11, 2016 9:45pm

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — When Tim Canova, a law school professor and political activist, pressed his South Florida congresswoman to vote against fast-track trade legislation last summer, he said he got the brush-off from her staff.

Angered over the experience and a lawmaker he viewed as having a less than progressive voting record, the constituent turned the political tables on one of the Democratic Party's most powerful leaders, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. He decided to run against her.

Until this week, Canova's long-shot campaign to unseat the Democratic National Committee chairwoman and six-term lawmaker had gone largely unnoticed. More than $557,000 in first-quarter campaign contributions changed the conversation about the primary in the Democratic-leaning congressional district.

Canova's campaign mirrors that of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The New York transplant is declining corporate or PAC donations and wants to go to Washington to "save our democracy" by getting money out of politics. More than 18,000 donors, mostly from outside Florida, gave his campaign an average of $20.

Now the story of a ticked-off constituent challenging his congresswoman seems less improbable in an election year that has confounded conventional political wisdom.

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http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/sounding-like-sanders-professor-challenges-democratic-chief/2272838

[peacebird]

1. Excellent! Glad so many people are supporting him. That corrupt piece of work has to be retired.

I mean seriously, now she's supporting the payday lender industry?

[haikugal]

2. Go Tim Go!!

[onehandle]

3. The Florida primary is over a month after Hillary accepts our nomination here in Philly.

After the dissolution of The 'Not Hillary' Party, will the former members get out and work for Democrats to win Congress?

[GoneOffShore]

4. "Accepts our nomination"?

Too funny for words.

I'll be working for progressives down ticket.

[Dragonfli]

5. Democrats YES! Republocrats? Not quite in the bag, sorry. They have to represent us if they want to

earn our votes,

I won't vote for payday loan shark enablers that hurt my (lower) class most of all for example.
Most assuredly not for ones that prefer Republicans as she is sometimes wont to do.

In 2008 Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to endorse these 3 Democrats
who had won their Primaries and had a chance to win Republican seats:

Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chair Joe Garcia

Former Hialeah Democratic Mayor Raul Martinez

Democratic businesswoman Annette Taddeo

All three had won their local Democratic Primaries, and were challenging Hard Core Republican incumbents with whom Wasserman-Schultz had become cozy.
Not only did the head of the DCCC Red to Blue Program REFUSE to endorse these Democratic challengers,
but she appeared in person at at least one (possibly more) Campaign/Fundraiser for their Republican opponents.



FL-18, FL-21, FL-25: Wasserman Schultz Wants Dem Challengers to Lose
by: James L.
Sun Mar 09, 2008 at 7:15 PM EDT
<snip>

Sensing a shift in the political climate of the traditionally solid-GOP turf of the Miami area, Democrats have lined up three strong challengers -- Miami-Dade Democratic Party chair Joe Garcia, former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez, and businesswoman Annette Taddeo to take on Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, respectively.

While there is an enormous sense of excitement and optimism surrounding these candidacies, some Democratic lawmakers, including Florida Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Kendrick Meek, are all too eager to kneecap these Democratic challengers right out of the starting gate in the spirit of "comity" and "bipartisan cooperation" with their Republican colleagues:

But as three Miami Democrats look to unseat three of her South Florida Republican colleagues, Wasserman Schultz is staying on the sidelines. So is Rep. Kendrick Meek, a Miami Democrat and loyal ally to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

This time around, Wasserman Schultz and Meek say their relationships with the Republican incumbents, Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and his brother Mario, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, leave them little choice but to sit out the three races.

"At the end of the day, we need a member who isn't going to pull any punches, who isn't going to be hesitant," Wasserman Schultz said.

Now, you'd expect this kind of bullshit from a backbencher like Alcee Hastings, but you wouldn't expect this kind of behavior from the co-chair of the DCCC's Red to Blue program, which is the position that Wasserman Schultz currently holds. Apparently, Debbie did not get Rahm's memo about doing whatever it takes to win:

The national party, enthusiastic about the three Democratic challengers, has not yet selected Red to Blue participants. But Wasserman Schultz has already told the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that if any of the three make the cut, another Democrat should be assigned to the race.

http://www.swingstateproject.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=1537

You should ask her, she is the one that has publicly refused to help Democrats, and has even gone a step further, lending aid comfort and votes to actual Republicans.

[Ferd Berfel]

7. She hasn't earned my vote so far just triangulating to the 'centrists'

I wonder how she will thread THAT needle if she makes it to the GE and has to start triangulating to the Right

[Phlem]

8. +1 Spot on.

[RoccoR5955]

18. What is interesting is that she still has ANY supporters

after losing the House and Senate during her tenure, by running milquetoast candidates who were neither real Repbulicans or Democrats at heart, but a combination of the two.
Over my limited lifetime, I have seen that whenever a party does this, and leaves their base aside, they lose. This is exactly what Wasserman-Schultz has done. She has helped RepubliCONs more than she has helped Democrats, as far as I'm concerned.
If she wants to see the Democrats do better, she really has to run candidates that appeal to the base, so that these folks are motivated to work for the candidate and GOTV. Not just hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils, or sit home.

[Phlem]

6. !

Thanks for that, I needed a laugh today.

[JDPriestly]

12. The young Bernie supporters I have been talking to are loyal to Bernie not to the Democratic

Party which has lost them because of the Democratic Party's conservadem policies.

There is a lot of disillusion among young people who would have been staunch Democrats when the Kennedys were running for office.

Hillary is a part of the problem. But they are disillusioned with Obama too.

That's what I am hearing. High cost of higher education is getting a lot of people down, and it has not been adequately addressed by Congress or the President. Not really even a topic for discussion. Parents and kids alike are disillusioned. College costs too much and then jobs that pay enough to repay college debt seem hard to get.

I'm not in that age group. I just listen to my neighbors and others I work with on the Bernie campaign.

[Eleanors38]

15. Yep. Been saying for years tuition debt & poor job prospects were the big issues...

Frankly, if a not-so-crazy GOPer were to offer solutions in the face of the jargon-jiving Demos, younger voters may go their way as well. Democratic "leadership" is utterly locked into de-natured corporate center-right politics. They will have to be dynamited out.

[RoccoR5955]

17. And what if you are incorrect and Clinton does not "accept our nomination,"

but her competitor does? Will it be shades of what it was in 2008 when she lost, and many of her supporters were livid, or will they just work with one another to try to take back the House and Senate as well as elect a Democratic President?

[Phlem]

9. K&R!!!!

[Uncle Joe]

10. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Purveyor.

[Omaha Steve]

11. Donate to Democratic Underground for Tim Canova FL-23 at Act Blue here

Tim had a $50 donation a couple hours ago.

Democratic Underground for Tim Canova FL-23: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/du4timcanova

[DinahMoeHum]

16. Other sites to contribute to Canova's campaign. . .

https://timcanova.com/

https://www.facebook.com/TimCanovaForCongress/

[jwirr]

13. Looks like we are making progress.

[Scuba]

14. When Obama endorsed her, he was just play 13-level chess. He knew the money would flow to Tim.

Yeah, that's it.






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[zentrum]

19. Ticked off!

[bbgrunt]

20. K and R! time to kick his campaign a few more bucks!