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Staffer Scandal Burns Wasserman Schultz

August 10, 2017 at 7:18 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “The chatter about a House leadership post is gone. So is talk of statewide office. After Hillary Clinton’s defeat, there’s no prospect of an administration job for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She’s under fire for mismanaging an IT employee under a House IT investigation who was arrested on a seemingly unrelated mortgage fraud charge. Wasserman Schultz broke her public silence on Awan last week, portraying herself as the victim of ‘right wing media’ attacks rooted in anti-Muslim bigotry.”

Said fellow Florida Democrat Nikki Barnes: “We wish she would go away and stop being so public by doubling down on negative stories … None of this makes sense. It doesn’t sound like racial profiling … there must have been something for her …. This adds to Debbie being re-branded as the Democrats’ disastrous destruction.”

Quote of the Day

August 31, 2016 at 7:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I’ll concede that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a corporate stooge.”

— Tim Canova (D), quoted by the Sun-Sentinel, after losing his primary challenge to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).

Sanders Wants DNC Chair Out

July 24, 2016 at 10:20 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Bernie Sanders told CNN that the release of DNC emails that prove that Party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz needs to go.

Said Sanders: “I don’t think she is qualified to be the chair of the DNC not only for these awful emails, which revealed the prejudice of the DNC, but also because we need a party that reaches out to working people and young people, and I don’t think her leadership style is doing that.”

DNC Chair Won’t Speak at Convention

July 24, 2016 at 9:46 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The head of the Democratic National Committee will not speak at the party’s convention next week, a decision reached by party officials Saturday after emails surfaced that raised questions about the committee’s impartiality during the Democratic primary,” CNN reports.

“Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose stewardship of the DNC has been under fire through most of the presidential primary process, will not have a major speaking role in an effort ‘to keep the peace’ in the party, a Democrat familiar with the decision said.”

Wasserman Shultz Coy on Future as DNC Chief

June 14, 2016 at 7:50 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 32 Comments

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told NBC News that she is focused on electing a Democratic president but would not definitively say she will be head of the DNC come November.

Democrats Mull Dropping Wasserman Schultz

May 24, 2016 at 10:05 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 93 Comments

“Democrats on Capitol Hill are discussing whether Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz should step down as Democratic National Committee chairwoman before the party’s national convention in July,” The Hill reports.

“Democrats backing likely presidential nominee Hillary Clinton worry Wasserman Schultz has become too divisive a figure to unify the party in 2016… Wasserman Schultz has had an increasingly acrimonious relationship with the party’s other presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, and his supporters, who argue she has tilted the scales in Clinton’s favor.”

Sanders Backs Challenger to Wasserman Schultz

May 22, 2016 at 7:35 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 86 Comments

Sen. Bernie Sanders “cranked up his crusade” against the Democratic establishment, declaring that he is supporting DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (D-FL) primary challenger, Politico reports.

“The move, a clear and intended affront to the Florida congresswoman, comes amid long-standing tensions between the two Democrats. Sanders and his allies contend that Wasserman Schultz has not been an honest broker during his run for the Democratic nomination and they have seethed over a number of issues ranging from the debate schedule to the amount of representation on the convention standing committees.”

Bonus Quote of the Day

April 5, 2016 at 10:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments

“As powerful as that makes me feel, I’m not doing a very good job of rigging the outcome or…blocking…anyone from being able to get their message out.”

— DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, quoted by The Hill, on accusations that she’s rigged the Democratic primary for Hillary Clinton.

Quote of the Day

March 27, 2016 at 8:29 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 20 Comments

“Look, they made this bed, they’ve been willingly allowing the Tea Party extremists to take over their party, and so they have only themselves to blame with the likelihood of having a presumptive nominee like Donald Trump, who is the most extreme and vile, misogynistic candidate in modern times.”

— DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, quoted by The Hill.

Top DNC Official Accuses Chair of Lying

October 15, 2015 at 9:47 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 14 Comments

R.T. Rybak, the former mayor of Minneapolis and a vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, accused the party’s leader, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), of making “flat-out not true” statements about another top party officer, questioned her political skills and said he had “serious questions” about her suitability for the job, the New York Times reports.

The broadside from Mr. Rybak “followed weeks of internal party dissension over the number and timing of the presidential debates it has scheduled, capped by an acrimonious public dispute” over whether Wasserman Schultz had barred Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) from the first debate this week.

DNC Holds Firm on Debate Schedule

September 11, 2015 at 8:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 52 Comments

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz “stood firmly by her plan to hold exactly six presidential debates—and jabbed at the candidate who’s been most aggressive in agitating for more,” Bloomberg reports.

Said Wasserman Schultz: “We’re having six debates–period.”

She added: “We’re not changing the process. We’re having six debates. We’re having six debates and the candidates will be uninvited from any subsequent debates if they accept an invitation to a debate outside the six DNC-sanctioned debates.”

Wasserman Schultz Offered to Switch Position for Donor

February 20, 2015 at 7:12 am EST By Taegan Goddard 23 Comments

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office “offered to change her position on medical marijuana if a major Florida donor recanted his withering criticism of her,” according to emails obtained by Politico.

“The proposal to Orlando trial lawyer John Morgan was straightforward: retract critical statements he made to a reporter in return for Wasserman Schultz publicly backing his cannabis initiative that she had trashed just months earlier. Morgan declined the offer with a sharp email reply sent to a go-between, who described the congresswoman as being in a ‘tizzy.'”