Tim Canova, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Grass-Roots Rebellions the Next President Doesn’t Want

[Omaha Steve]

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http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/07/26/tim-canova-debbie-wasserman-schultz-and-grass-roots-rebellions-the-next-president-doesnt-want/

Dan Schnur is director of the University of Southern California’s Unruh Institute of Politics and was communications director for John McCain’s 2000 presidential campaign. He is on Twitter: @DanSchnur.

By DAN SCHNUR
Jul 26, 2016 2:55 pm ET

Tim Canova is a barely-known college professor from South Florida. In about a month, he could be in a position to remake the Democratic Party and to make the life of the next president of the United States much more difficult and much less enjoyable.

After Debbie Wasserman Schultz was removed as chair of the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton’s campaign largely succeeded at dampening the outrage and resentment that Bernie Sanders supporters expressed throughout most of the first day of the convention. By evening, Mr. Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren had reinforced their support for Mrs. Clinton, and the speech by first lady Michelle Obama had refocused the delegates’ emotional energy in a much more Clinton-tolerant direction. By late Monday night, Ms. Wasserman Schultz was part of political history, at least at the national level.

Back home in Florida, however, Ms. Wasserman Schultz faces an unexpectedly competitive primary challenge from Mr. Canova, a Sanders-inspired (and Sanders-endorsed) political newcomer. Mr. Canova has relentlessly attacked Ms. Wasserman Schultz as a tool of the Democratic Party establishment. He has raised more than $2.5 million for his campaign. Ms. Wasserman Schultz has raised more than $3 million, a significant but not prohibitive advantage, and enjoys deep roots and broad support in a community she has represented in the state legislature and the U.S. House for more than 20 years.

But as has been exceedingly clear the past few days, Democratic Party progressives are still unsatisfied and impatient. They have fallen short of their goals at the top of the ticket, and they’ll be looking for other victories to claim in the months ahead. Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s misfortune is that Florida’s unusually late primary, Aug. 30, provides a timely opportunity for resentful Sanders supporters to strike back at the party establishment.

FULL story at link.

[Recursion]

1. Great... A choice between an Iran deal opponent and a payday loan supporter

We seriously can't do better than that?

[Funtatlaguy]

3. He could be Lucifer himself

but if it meant ridding my party of DWS, I'm in.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Had there been any polling done

on this race?
When do they vote?

[onehandle]

4. No public polling, but they are still calling Canova's odds 'slim.'

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is extremely popular and as known as hands on and involved with her district. The local elected Democrats are standing with her and President Obama endorsed her and has campaigned with her. The large gay community there loves her and works for her in every election.

[Cha]

5. Good to know!

[onehandle]

6. It's going to be about the ground game.

And she has historically had a good one there.

She's not out of danger, but many times it's been mentioned that she is judged on her local work, not her national work. Nobody is making a prediction out there.

[Cha]

8. And, she has more time now for ground work!

[Omaha Steve]

7. Tim Canova endorsed by labor union leaders to challenge Wasserman Schultz

Under threat from the national offices the local unions are for Tim!

GREAT video: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-tim-canova-wasserman-schultz-endorsement-20160608-video-premiumvideo.html

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/fl-tim-canova-sanders-labor-20160608-story.html

6-8-16

Leaders of several labor union locals, a key Democratic Party constituency, said Wednesday they've lost confidence in U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and want to see her defeated in the August primary.

They said they're supporting her challenger, Tim Canova, on the grounds that he'd better represent the interests of working people. Wasserman Schultz, they said, caters too much to the interests of her corporate political donors.

"This is something that's been a slow progression to the negative," said Don Abicht, president of Communications Workers of America local 3122. He said Wasserman Schultz excels at making herself look good. "She's good at baking cakes for her constituents, but she's not good at getting the job done."

The central criticism from the labor leaders who appeared with Canova at his storefront campaign office in Hollywood was Wasserman Schultz's support of legislation that creates an expedited approval process for President Barack Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

FULL story at link.

[onehandle]

11. Well, now she can stay in her district for the next month and 'bake cakes.'

Undistracted by her former second job.

I bet the ladies down there loved that cake line.

I don't doubt there is a possibility of an upset down there. One direction or another.

[geek tragedy]

9. Payday Debbie is proving even worse than her critics said she was

No one came to her defense last week. Not Hillary, not Obama, not even Lanny Davis.

[NWCorona]

10. With recent events unfolding. I'm thinking Tim's odds just increased

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. After hearing that Tim Canova pandered himself on local RW nut Joyce Kaufman's show yesterday....

.....he's either colossally ignorant of who Joyce Kaufman is (and he's lived in the area for years, so he shouldn't be), or there's something very fishy about him.

http://www.crowleypoliticalreport.com/2010/11/allen-west-chief-of-staff-if-ballots-dont-work-bullets-will.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x153483

Imagine, hypothetically, if Bernie Sanders went on Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh during the primary and the two of them spent all the time yucking it up like good buddies about Hillary. (Thankfully, I don't think Senator Sanders would have ever contemplated such a thing.)


So, in short, it's a big fat NO on Tim Canova.