Damn, Debbie, at it again: DNC employs same tactics against Canova they tried against Sanders
As I’ve pointed out on prior occasions Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and the DNC frequently use their power over party machinery, and specifically the demographic aggregator VoteBuilder, to promote their own aims and candidates. The enormous advantage that voter data and the political apparatus of the national Democratic Party confers to party operatives over any challenge from the grassroots or the left is hard to overstate- look no further than Marco Rossi’s failed mayoral campaign in Olympia last year, for example.
There’s been a pattern of Wasserman-Schultz and the DNC using access to the data as a political tool and leverage. In mid-December, Wasserman-Schultz shut off access to VoteBuilder for the Sanders campaign in reaction to a mild breach of Clinton campaign data.
Wasserman-Schultz did back down, eventually. But the point was clear: the DNC is ready and willing to wield the power it has from access to the program as it sees fit, not as is fair.
No wonder, then, that Wasserman-Schultz’s opponent in her House district, Tim Canova, has been denied access to the software as he attempts to unseat the powerful, if increasingly unpopular, Congresswoman. The denial ostensibly comes from the Florida Democratic Party, but VoteBuilder is controlled by the national party and its surrogates.
Canova’s pissed. He portrayed the decision as “an entrenched establishment throwing up roadblocks against our political revolution,” a line he has taken from Independent Senator Bernie Sanders. Canova, like Sanders, relies on small donors for financing and has an active and enthusiastic youth movement behind him.
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