Deb, don't go away mad. Deb, just go away.

[marmar]

(The Intercept) 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.” ...............(more)

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

[tk2kewl]

1. She can be mad if she wants... but here's a nice tune:

[tymorial]

4. Its funny how people link songs to topics

I didn't think of this song, I thought of Motley Crue lol

[Fuddnik]

8. Don't let the screen door hit you on your way out.

&list=RDwCWVuCCWqzQ

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Has anyone speculated on what would happen to alcohol sales if marijuana were legalized?

It does seem like they'd take a hit, but to what degree I don't know.

[Tsiyu]

18. Hasn't hurt them per this article

http://marijuana.heraldtribune.com/2015/09/15/legal-weed-in-colorado-doesnt-curb-alcohol-sales/


DENVER – Legal marijuana in Colorado hasn’t cut into alcohol sales. That’s according to figures reported as Colorado prepares a one-day waiver of some marijuana taxes on Wednesday.

The final tax numbers cover the first full fiscal year in which adults over 21 could legally buy both marijuana and alcohol.

Alcohol excise tax collections were up 2.4 percent, to about $42 million. Marijuana-specific taxes came in at about $70 million.

But those figures don’t count overall statewide 2.9 percent sales taxes. In other words, alcohol likely produces more overall tax money than pot.

[Warren DeMontague]

22. My unscientific analysis says that the brew pubs in Portland are still doing just fine.

[tymorial]

3. I just hitched a ride on the way back machine

[Old Codger]

5. They have part

Of her description wrong, she is not "house" democrat,she is no sort of democrat....she is a repug through and through.

[TipTok]

6. She must have some serious dirt on some serious folks...

... to have kept her job as long as she has.

[zentrum]

14. Interesting point….

…..but on the other hand they would protect her just because she's such a reliable inside player and that works really well for machine politics.

[TipTok]

16. Good bit of both I suspect...

That's the way it works at that level for virtually everyone...

[zentrum]

7. Call the DNC 202 863 8000!

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Demand she resign. She's completely out of touch with younger voters and is harming the future of the Democratic Party. She's virtually forcing them to form a third party.

202 863 8000.

By limiting debates she's created a vacuum into which the Republican message rushed. Daily. She should have exposed the country as much as possible to our superior candidates and our message.

To feather her own nest she is risking the party and the election.

[Fuddnik]

9. She's too egotistical and self-important to resign.

Call the White House and tell the President to fire her!


202-456-1111

[zentrum]

19. Will do.

[hifiguy]

21. Pointless. The only reason she still has a job

is because he wants her there. A President can snap his fingers and change a party chair. Clearly she's doing just what TPTB want her to be doing.

[Hiraeth]

10. She looks tired.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. Must be the heroin.

[Hiraeth]

15. lol

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Who does she know that does heroin?

[Elwood P Dowd]

12. Debbie "I know nothing" Schultz

The old Sarge would be proud.

[Tsiyu]

17. Greedy pigs don't get mad

They just snuffle and grunt like she is doing in this article.

Yes, Debbie Do-Nothing-Positive-for-Anyone-But-The-Rich:


GO AWAY!!!

[hifiguy]

20. Another Debbie chimes in

[MisterP]

23. Moody Blues