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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVice President Joe Biden to fundraise for Debbie Wasserman Schultz in South Florida
This says it all. Send Tim a few bucks. To hell with corrupt payday debbie and the establishment pushing her.
Vice President Joe Biden will headline a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, in early June.
Stephen Bittel, a developer who lives in Coconut Grove, told the Miami Herald that he is hosting the fundraiser.
It''s no surprise that Biden is supporting Wasserman Schultz who is President Barack Obama's Democratic National Committee chair.
But his presence at a fundraiser for her is another sign that Wasserman Schultz is taking her Democratic primary challenger -- Tim Canova -- seriously. Canova, a Nova Southeastern University law professor, said in a fundraising email earlier this week that he is close to raising $1 million -- a huge sum for a first-time candidate who started his campaign in January.
Wasserman Schultz raised $1.8 million through March but hasn't announced what she has raised since that time.
Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine is hosting a fundraiser for Wasserman Schultz on Monday.
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http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2016/05/vice-president-joe-biden-to-fundraise-for-debbie-wasserman-schultz.html
merrily
(45,251 posts)I invented that term only this morning and have used it twice already!
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eridani
(51,907 posts)Or is it her support of payday lending extortion that you support? Or maybe it's the massive loss of Dem officeholders and voters under her tenure?
1939
(1,683 posts)One of the right wing talk shows referred to DWS as Nancy Pelosi's "little gerbil" and DU went ballistic as DWS was then a symbol of the great progressive movement. Now she gets thrown under the bus
eridani
(51,907 posts)Nine years ago, Democrats were 40% of the electorate. Now independents are. DWS presided over massive losses for Dems since 2009. And you like this because why?
cali
(114,904 posts)on the basis of what some anonymous person says on the internet, but yay for you for being a superfan of corrupt Debbie Payday.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)very specific action of his, namely his supporting DWS. If even that is intolerable to you, something is very wrong. Sorry you made such an awful use of your money, but it's far from my fault. I've been proudly supporting Tim Canova.
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merrily
(45,251 posts)pengu
(462 posts)I remember Anita Hill. I remember the Bankruptcy bill. I remember Iraq. I remember the Patriot Act.
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zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The DLC, using Koch funds, moved them a couple of decades ago. Which turned liberals into "Marxists". (Who'd ever thought THAT would be how liberals got described on DU? I should probably alert.)
But more to your larger, non-hyperbolic, point, if "getting something done" with a republican congress is the goal, then we'd all have voted for Romney last time. Is it so hard to understand that people here don't want a free trading hawk that doesn't want to consider single payer?
If you think candidates get elected based upon the voter's judgment about their ability to actually accomplish what they are promising, you haven't been paying attention. They vote based upon strange concerns, among them things like "likeability" or "would I entrust my kids to them" or "would I drink a beer with them?". You think Reagan got elected because of his deep grasp of issues? You think "Yes I can" was a deep piece of policy objective? How many things that Obama suggested during the campaign did he ultimately "evolve" on after the oath of office?
We have before us an almost unelectable GOP candidate. If there was ever a time to elect a "far left" candidate, the chance is now. We'll never have a better chance. How would he work with a democratic congress? By starting far left and letting the DEMOCRATS pull him right, instead of what we've seen from the guy that wanted to "reach across the aisle" and had the GOP and the blue dogs pulling him from the center to the right.
It is a bit strange to see, on DU people arguing AGAINST progressive policies. Not just that they are unachievable, but that they shouldn't be tried, and in fact are some sort of "Marxist/fevered dream".
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)....
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)An audit would be good for DWS and her money management of the DNC
dchill
(38,642 posts)Birds of a feather...
pengu
(462 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)TipTok
(2,474 posts)Trying to stay tied in for 2020 in case of a Hillary loss I suppose...
n2doc
(47,953 posts)yourpaljoey
(2,166 posts)Omaha Steve
(99,898 posts)ericson00
(2,707 posts)and let's keep our party orderly.
Omaha Steve
(99,898 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)I'm glad you agree.
Rex
(65,616 posts)We don't seem to get very far with Dem-lite.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It kind of makes sense.
laserhaas
(7,805 posts)Response to cali (Original post)
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Don't do it Joe! You have more integrity then that!