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Forum Post: Tim Canova is challenging DWS in FL, real change is possible!

Posted 8 years ago on Jan. 14, 2016, 7:52 a.m. EST by factsrfun (8310) from Phoenix, AZ
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Can a Sanders ‘Proxy’ Oust Debbie Wasserman Schultz?

JUSTIN MILLER JANUARY 14, 2016

Liberal activist and Wall Street–reform advocate Tim Canova is staging a primary challenge against the DNC chair and Clinton ally.

Now, if the increased calls for her to step down from her post as party head weren’t enough, Wasserman Schultz is also facing the prospect of a tough primary challenge from the left. Liberal economist and longtime Wall Street–reform advocate Tim Canova announced last week that he will challenge Wasserman Schultz in the August 30 primary in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District. Touting a platform that closely mirrors Bernie Sanders’s, Canova hopes that the energy Sanders has roused nationally could work to his advantage in the South Florida district. Given Wasserman Schultz’s prominence, the primary could turn into a referendum pitting the progressive wing of the Democratic Party against its establishment wing, in much the way the (successful) primary challenge by another economist, Dave Brat, against then-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was a test of strength between the Republicans’ factions.

Over the years, says Canova, Wasserman Schultz has become less accountable to her district and more responsive to Wall Street. “She’s become such a corporate Democrat; she takes so much corporate money,” Canova says. “The way she talks the talk isn’t the way she walks the walk. That kind of unaccountable power needs to be challenged.”

http://prospect.org/article/can-sanders-%E2%80%98proxy%E2%80%99-oust-debbie-wasserman-schultz

https://timcanova.com/about.htm

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[-] 0 points by factsrfun (8310) from Phoenix, AZ 5 years ago

ahh DWS remember her?

[-] 0 points by factsrfun (8310) from Phoenix, AZ 5 years ago

another time around...