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Tsiyu

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Thu Jan 7, 2016, 12:14 PM Jan 2016

I Have Only This To Say to Debbie Wasserman "Yes_I-Am-A-Greedy-Sot" Schultz [View all]


Democrats can't hope to win any future elections without millennials. And millennials continually tell me online and IRL that "both parties are just tools of the corporations."

I have spent a great deal of time, breath and energy showing kids where that is not the case at all.

But now, our illustrious booze-corp-sucking Debbie Wasserman Schultz has made me look like a liar.

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/06/wasserman-schultz-fueled-by-booze-pacs-blasts-legal-pot/


Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told the New York Times she continues to oppose legalizing marijuana — even as she has courted alcohol PACs as one of the largest sources of her campaign funding.

Wasserman Schultz, a House Democrat from Florida, said she doesn’t “think we should legalize more mind-altering substances if we want to make it less likely that people travel down the path toward using drugs. We have had a resurgence of drug use instead of a decline. There is a huge heroin epidemic.”

The fifth-largest pool of money the congresswoman has collected for her re-election campaign has been from the beer, wine, and liquor industry. The $18,500 came from PACs including Bacardi USA, the National Beer Wholesalers Association, Southern Wine & Spirits, and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that during a recent period, “excessive drinking was responsible for one in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20-64.”



I'm done.

DWS bullshit lies would have worked in the 80s. They don't work now. Young people smell her bullshit from across the country and she has lost them for us.

From now on, all I can say is that the kids are right.

Fuck trying to defend people who get on their knees and defend an industry that causes so much heartache and sickness and injury and death.

Fuck a dumbass who equates cannabis to heroin.

Fuck a person with so many benefits in this life who encourages a War on Poor People - because that's all the war on drugs is. DWS's rich buddies smoke all the goddamned cannabis they want and you and I know it.

The kids are right. Both parties are sucking their benefactors you-know-whats with zero regard.

I will not defend you any more, Democrats.

Go Bernie. I will defend you, because you're the only one on the national stage with any concern for reality, who isn't fellating the booze industry.

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It's odd to me EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #1
"out of its way"? Really? Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #2
What don't you understand? EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #3
So you got nothing. Scuba Jan 2016 #4
I have everything EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #9
f wasserman schultz and her undemocratic actions. F the people who chose her too. roguevalley Jan 2016 #15
Great article! BuelahWitch Jan 2016 #16
I'm afraid Deb would be a heroine here if Hortensis Jan 2016 #21
So you admit she's rigging things in Hillary's favor? BuelahWitch Jan 2016 #23
I love the way Charlie refers to her these days as hifiguy Jan 2016 #22
Yes, the "party elites" did choose her tkmorris Jan 2016 #7
Actually, yes someone did force the party to choose her. jeff47 Jan 2016 #11
The party elites aren't the party. n/t winter is coming Jan 2016 #24
They are EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #25
Without a sufficient supply of everyday voters, they control nothing. winter is coming Jan 2016 #26
Well... EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #27
I thought you meant: all Democrats had gone out of their way. Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #28
Cool EdwardBernays Jan 2016 #29
I didn't choose that &$%)#! Tsiyu Jan 2016 #5
Derpy Watered-Down Shartz. k&r, nt appal_jack Jan 2016 #6
Thanks! Tsiyu Jan 2016 #8
Blammo. hifiguy Jan 2016 #20
What always amazes me from these articles, is how little we as a society get sold down the river for Rex Jan 2016 #10
It's harder for the kids to take Tsiyu Jan 2016 #12
it's her private prison patronage, as well as alcohol distribution donors nashville_brook Jan 2016 #13
I'm not done. NCTraveler Jan 2016 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Jan 2016 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author Warren DeMontague Jan 2016 #18
From your keyboard to God's ears. eom Betty Karlson Jan 2016 #30
Follow the money. hifiguy Jan 2016 #19
Donate to Democratic Underground for Tim Canova (he is primarying her) Omaha Steve Jan 2016 #31
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