Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I wanted to hurl when I saw that a member of Congress– a Democratic member of Congress– was able to corral enough freshmen Democrats (20) to help hard-core Republicans defeat a farm bill amendment offered by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) that would have made it easier for U.S. farmers to sell agricultural goods to Cuba. In all, sixty-six Democrats voted against it. How did that happen? Glad you asked. The defeat was engineered by an extremely corrupt tag-team, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a far right Cuban-American Republican congresswoman from Miami-Dade, and her BBF, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, one of the most corrupt Democrats ... Read Full Story

Kendrick remembers he’s a Democrat and leaves DWS on her own with the Republican extremists This morning DavidNYC at Swing State Project revisited Debbie Wasserman Schultz’ determined campaign to undermine and sabotage the efforts of Miami-Dade Democrats to replace reactionary Republican extremist– and Wasserman Schultz crony– Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with one of the most outstanding Democratic challengers running in this election cycle, Annette Taddeo, someone the corrupt Wasserman Schultz fears could stand in her way when she seeks higher office. When Wasserman Schultz, co-chair of the DCCC’s less and less credible “Red to Blue” program, first announced her intention to work against the election of ... Read Full Story

Our Congressional delegation: The good, the bad, and the useless If you have not been living under a rock for the past year, you might have noticed that there is an election campaign for President of the United States going on, and to say the least, it is quite contentious. Many people decry these nasty elections, but there is great historical precedent. The first three United Sates elections for president (George Washington twice and John Adams once) had only one candidate. That all changed in 1800, when Thomas Jefferson, Adams’s vice president, ran against him and won. By all accounts written at the time, ... Read Full Story

Our Congressional delegation: The good, the bad, and the useless If you have not been living under a rock for the past year, you might have noticed that there is an election campaign for President of the United States going on, and to say the least, it is quite contentious. Many people decry these nasty elections, but there is great historical precedent. The first three United Sates elections for president (George Washington twice and John Adams once) had only one candidate. That all changed in 1800, when Thomas Jefferson, Adams’s vice president, ran against him and won. By all accounts written at the time, ... Read Full Story

Our Congressional delegation: The good, the bad, and the useless If you have not been living under a rock for the past year, you might have noticed that there is an election campaign for President of the United States going on, and to say the least, it is quite contentious. Many people decry these nasty elections, but there is great historical precedent. The first three United Sates elections for president (George Washington twice and John Adams once) had only one candidate. That all changed in 1800, when Thomas Jefferson, Adams’s vice president, ran against him and won. By all accounts written at the time, ... Read Full Story