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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bill Moyers: Democrats Can't Unite Until DWS Goes [View all]
http://billmoyers.com/story/democrats-cant-unite-unless-wasserman-schultz-goes/#As we recently wrote, She embodies the tactics that have eroded the ability of Democrats to once again be the party of the working class. As Democratic National Committee chair she has opened the floodgates for Big Money, brought lobbyists into the inner circle and oiled all the moving parts of the revolving door that twirls between government service and cushy jobs in the world of corporate influence.
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But we digress. Its the skullduggery going on within the Democratic Party establishment thats our current concern and as we wrote in March, Rep. Wasserman Schultz has played games with the partys voter database, been accused of restricting the number of Democratic candidate debates and scheduling them at odd days and times to favor Hillary Clinton, and recently told CNNs Jake Tapper that superdelegates strongly establishment and pro-Clinton are necessary at the partys convention so deserving incumbent officials and party leaders dont have to run for delegate slots against grassroots activists. Let that sink in, but hold your nose against the aroma of entitlement.
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So, too, has her abolition of the restraints that had been placed on corporate lobbyists and big money now they can write checks bankrolling what doubtless will be swank and profligate parties during this summers Democratic National Convention. At The Intercept, Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani report that a number of the members of the Philadelphia host committee are actively working to undermine progressive policies achieved by President Barack Obama, including health care reform and net neutrality. Some are hardly even Democratic Party stalwarts, given that many have donated and raised thousands of dollars for Republican presidential and congressional candidates this cycle.
This is a slap in the face to progressives calling for a halt to big money and allowing lobbyists to buy our elected officials.
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Rep. Wasserman Schultz is facing a primary challenge for the first time this year, her opponent a law professor, activist and progressive Sanders supporter named Tim Canova. But the primarys not until late August, long after the Democratic National Convention. Unless she steps down now or Hillary Clinton has her removed, Philadelphia will be dominated by someone who represents everything that has gone wrong with the Democratic Party and Washington. At the conventions opening session, Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be bringing the gavel down squarely on progressive hopes of returning the party to its legacy as champion of working people and the dispossessed.
Weve said it before and well say it again: Time for her to go.
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This surely would go a long way , I would hope, in mending the fence.
Jackie Wilson Said
May 2016
#1
Politics as usual. Just as this election is with two big exceptions, Bernie and Drumpf
Jackie Wilson Said
May 2016
#32
Not true: DWS is not the cause of Sanders losses: Sanders people are bullies
lewebley3
May 2016
#139
I don't know a whole lot about DWS to know whether I "like" her or not
Proud Liberal Dem
May 2016
#166
Well I don't think she was ever a Democrat in spirit. Just someone who could do things and it did no
LiberalArkie
May 2016
#14
Your statistic is misleading. The average person gets more than 3 minutes of news.
Exilednight
May 2016
#64
Where have you been? The Party is split wide open. The Progressives are sick and tired
rhett o rick
May 2016
#67
Devouring our own asses? She allied herself with sheldon adelson to jail medical marijuana patients.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#94
Why Is DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Co-Sponsoring a Bill to Help Predatory Payday Lenders?
AntiBank
May 2016
#116
she said it awhile ago following the early primaries when voters began asking
hopemountain
May 2016
#82
She'll go. Probably DWS will most likely be rewarded with a cabinet position by HRC.
EndElectoral
May 2016
#31
Secret kill list? Obama has a secret kill list? You look like an idiot. Why post stupid crap
bjobotts
May 2016
#47
If the real estate swindler is crowned king she may not have to go - may be irrelevant. n/t
jtuck004
May 2016
#37
IF she "brings down her gavel on progressive hopes of returning the party to its legacy
PatrickforO
May 2016
#41
The party is split between the neoliberal Third Ways and the New Dealers. I don't think
PatrickforO
May 2016
#43
Bill Moyers? been speaking truth for a long time .....and that irks some . Nothing new .
Person 2713
May 2016
#76
If debbie wasserman schultz is the party, that means the party supports predatory lending.
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#95
Moyers got it right again. Hard for Hillaryites to throw him under the Wall Street bus.
imagine2015
May 2016
#58
and she was confident no one could get her out before her term was over -- 2017.
antigop
May 2016
#154
It would be a good start, but the Democratic Party has a long road back to being the party of labor
Not Sure
May 2016
#63
Anyone who thinks that will unite this party has no clue about what is going on.
Skwmom
May 2016
#65
11 Governors, 13 Senators, 69 Reps, 913 state seats: there's only one seat left for her to lose!
MisterP
May 2016
#71
How about descheduling marijuana entirely at the federal level, instead of a token change from I/II
Warren DeMontague
May 2016
#96
Looks like the DNC is now emulating James O'Keefe, releasing clips edited to make
djean111
May 2016
#111
Kicked, recommended and I'm sure that if Hillary does become President she will have a cushy job
Uncle Joe
May 2016
#117
DWS needs to go, but that won't make all the wrongs of the past four months right.
reformist2
May 2016
#148