Tim Canova on DWS, and his campaign's request for the voter database. And what comes next.
This is from an email, so no link.
--- LETTER TO THE FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY ---
For more than thirty years, I have been a registered Democrat, and I am now a candidate in the Democratic primary in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District. I am a Professor of Law and Public Finance at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Fort Lauderdale. Prior to teaching, I practiced law and served as a legislative aide to the late U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas (Democrat-Massachusetts).
It's part of an email,, so no link.
On Saturday our campaign attended the Broward County Democratic Party Victory dinner at the plush Hyatt Regency Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale. At the head table, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was sitting right next to Allison Tant, the chair of the Florida Democratic Party, who days earlier had denied our request for access to the party’s voter database — and the explanation was to protect incumbent officials like Schultz!
Now here was Schultz sitting next to Tant, perhaps even thanking Tant for denying us access to the voter database and volunteer tools that are routinely provided to Democratic candidates. Or perhaps they spoke about the party’s superdelegates, who Schultz as head of the Democratic National Committee has said are needed to protect the party establishment from its own grassroots!
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Last week, I called your office and left messages for your executive director, Scott Arceneaux, to request access to our party’s VAN voter database and software that is routinely used by Democratic candidates across the country. Eventually, I spoke with Phillip Thompson, your deputy executive director, who informed me that, as a matter of “policy,” the Florida Democratic Party will not allow me access to our party’s database and software because I am running against an incumbent Democrat, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
I now write directly to you to more formally repeat my request for access to our VAN voter database and software. It is my understanding that the agreement between the Democratic National Committee and state Democratic parties allows state parties to provide access to the VAN voter database and software to Democratic candidates on a reasonable basis. As a longtime, loyal registered Democrat, and now an electoral candidate for our party, I am interested in allowing constituents to hear my views so that they may make a more informed decision at the ballot box. It cannot seriously be disputed that this plainly qualifies as a reasonable basis for providing my campaign access to our party’s database and software.
If the Florida Democratic Party continues to deny my request, please promptly provide us with a copy of the exact provision in the state party’s by-laws or rules upon which the denial is based, and all other provisions and agreements relating to this issue.
Respectfully,
Tim Canova
I just donated, and here's the link for that- https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/mar2016_eom-tc?refcode=em20160321-letter&recurring=yes
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