The proxy primary. Debbie W-S is a Clinton dem. Tim Canova is a Sanders dem

[cali]

He's challenging her.

DSW takes big $$$ from the payday lender loan sharks, an industry so toxic that 20 states either outlaw it or sharply restrict it. Google recently barred payday loan sharks from advertising. DSW works to prevent increased regulation on these fucks, both on the federal and state level. But it couldn't possibly have anything to do with the $$$. After all, she's a Clinton dem! And like Hillary, she couldn't possibly be influenced by money.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/warren-wasserman-schultz-clash-over-payday-lenders

Tim Canova only accepts small dollar donations.
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DSW is strongly opposed to medical marijuana. She says it's a gateway drug and that legalizing medical marijuana will lead to fraud and abuse. She has no problem with ill medical marijuana users being sent to prison- for years.

Tim in his own words:

In Florida, I supported the 2014 medical marijuana referendum that garnered about 58 percent of the vote state-wide, falling just short of the required 60 percent mark. My opponent, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is a drug warrior who opposed the medical marijuana referendum. Calling marijuana a “gateway” drug, she refuses to allow her constituents in South Florida, in consultation with their doctors, to decide for themselves whether to utilize this plant-based medicine to alleviate pain and other symptoms of various illnesses and the side effects of other medications
https://timcanova.com/issues

In 2008, DSW refused to endorse democratic challengers to three of the most right wing Florida republican congress critters, saying she didn't want to stab he repuke friends in the back. I mean what the fuckity fuck Fuck.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) is getting brutally walloped in the liberal blogosphere for refusing to endorse the Democratic challengers to three potentially vulnerable GOP incumbents in Florida.

Liberal bloggers are irate that Wasserman Schultz, who co-chairs the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red-to-Blue program, has declined to endorse the Democrats running to unseat Cuban American Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and his brother, Mario Diaz-Balart.

Wasserman Schultz says she doesn’t want to stab GOP members of her own delegation in the back. But liberal bloggers say she’s killing her own while aiding and abetting the enemy.

Just for the record, I’m not in favor of knocking out all Republicans either — so perhaps I have a bit of the Wasserman Schultz sin in my own file. I was for instance supportive of Maryland Eastern Shore anti-Iraq war Republican Wayne Gilchrest who lost his primary battle recently.

But the Diaz-Balart brothers and Ros-Lehtinen are not moderate in any sense of the word, are embracers of Bush’s wars, and have been responsible for sustaining a counter-productive embargo of Cuba by the United States that 183 nations of the world voted against us on this past year in the United Nations.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is helping to defend the political turf of not the best in the Republican Party — but the worst.

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http://washingtonnote.com/venting_about_d/


This is not the first time that she has put her parochial interests ahead of her party. Back in 2008, when she was running the DNC's "Red to Blue" project, she famously abstained from supporting three Democratic challengers to incumbent Republicans – the Diaz-Balart brothers and the ever-insufferable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen –friend to terrorists who blow up passenger jets – because she was friends with all three of them.

A day later, Wasserman Schultz and Ros-Lehtinen lavished compliments on each other at a Washington luncheon with Miami-Dade commissioners. "I can't say enough good things about Ileana Ros-Lehtinen; she has been my friend since I was first elected to office," Wasserman Schultz said, noting she relied on Ros-Lehtinen's advice to help balance the demands of elected office and motherhood.

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http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a37542/dnc-chairperson/

Is there more? You betcha, but the above gives you a rough outline.

DSW is a Hillary democrat. Tim Canova is a Bernie democrat.

It's a steep hill, but I hope he beats her in the primary.

[cali]

1. Kick Kick and kick

[ancianita]

2. Me, too. I sent him money.

[passiveporcupine]

7. ME too...go Tim go!

[Waiting For Everyman]

13. Me too.

Go Tim!

[cali]

3. More about Tim

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Born on Long Island, Canova went to Georgetown Law School and then was miserable at a six-figure job with a big New York law firm. He once lived on an Israeli kibbutz, a communal farm. His stepfather of 40 years is Jewish. His father, an Italian immigrant and World War II veteran who became a Wall Street investment banker, died when he was 10.

In the 1980s, Canova was an aide to the late U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas, D-Mass. In 2011, Canova served as an adviser to Sanders, the independent U.S. senator from Vermont now giving Hillary Clinton fits. Canova has been warning about rising income inequality and a banking system stacked against the little guy in academic journals since the 1990s.

For the past four years, Canova has taught banking and finance law at NSU's Shepard Broad Law Center in Davie. He no longer practices law, retired from the New York Bar and inactive in the Washington, D.C., Bar.

"When people meet him, they go, 'Whoa, we have a real choice here,' said Rich Bell, Canova's campaign manager, who grew up with him in Merrick, N.Y. "In a way, Debbie brought this on herself."

Canova said he voted for Wasserman Schultz in 2014. Last summer, he called her office to express concerns about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade bill she voted to fast track through an accompanying measure. Told to email a legislative aide, he said he never got a response.

"I have Washington experience, I have policy experience, I teach at the only law school in her district," Canova said. "And I couldn't get a reply. That struck me as arrogance."

Banfill said Wasserman Schultz has not yet taken a position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and it hasn't come before Congress for a vote.

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-tim-canova-mayocol-b050516-20160504-column.html

[Attorney in Texas]

4. "DSW is a Hillary democrat. Tim Canova is a Bernie democrat." That says it all.

[cali]

5. Yep. She represents Hillary supporters quite well.

[cali]

6. Ostrich kick

[NWCorona]

8. DWS's political future is in Hillary's hands.

Tim will win!

[cali]

9. DWS is corrupt and a liar.

[cali]

10. Kick

[Blue_Adept]

11. Going against the tide is hard

The problem Canova faces is psychological for voters; While you have a lot of new voters coming on that will want to oust her because of the larger primary going on, they're a smaller faction - we saw that with how Hillary took the district something like 70/30.

That means he has to peel off a huge number of people that will back her and have previously voted for her. Getting the majority of voters to go against their past votes is incredibly hard. It's essentially admitting you were wrong in who you backed. And most people really won't do that and fool themselves subconsciously about it.

I wish him luck, I'm no fan of hers, but he has to do a whole lot of work and run a very different style of campaign than Sanders does in his primary - and that could cause some supporting Canova by proxy of Sanders to become conflicted.

[Henhouse]

12. Their primary is in August...

HRC beat Bernie 75% to 25% in DWS district. Sanders' battle with DWS is quixotic at best and petty and impotent at worst.

[Arazi]

14. Big frigging kick and rec eom

[MineralMan]

15. So, does anyone who knows that district think Canova has a chance?

I've not seen anyone saying that, and there is no polling in that district that I know of. I think the odds are heavily against a Canova win. It's incredibly hard to primary an incumbent representative in most districts, and she has been quite popular there.

That's the thing about congressional races. They're local elections and nothing else much matters other than the sentiments of the candidate's constituents.

[cali]

17. This is weird election year. But that's hardly my point.

She is a corrupt piece of....

[Ferd Berfel]

16. good point

I guess I'd better send Tim some $$