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JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 07:54 PM Oct 2015

Hillary's biggest supporter! Who remembers this?

Democrats torn between party, GOP friends

Democratic party leaders have tapped Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to raise money and coach candidates in a high-stakes, aggressive bid to expand the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives.

But as three Miami Democrats look to unseat three of her South Florida Republican colleagues, Wasserman Schultz is staying on the sidelines. So is Rep. Kendrick Meek, a Miami Democrat and loyal ally to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

That wasn't the case just two years ago when the pair flouted a long-standing Florida delegation agreement to not campaign against colleagues and vigorously backed Ron Klein in his winning bid to oust veteran Republican Rep. Clay Shaw.

This time around, Wasserman Schultz and Meek say their relationships with the Republican incumbents, Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart and his brother Mario, and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, leave them little choice but to sit out the three races.


Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24478039.html#storylink=cpy

With friends like these who needs enemies .

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Hillary's biggest supporter! Who remembers this? (Original Post) JRLeft Oct 2015 OP
I live in Florida. Wasserman-DINO is no Democrat. djean111 Oct 2015 #1
And so is Hillary and Joe Biden. JRLeft Oct 2015 #2
Yep. WAY too many DINOs have infiltrated our party. kath Oct 2015 #3
Wall Street likes win-win scenarios. JRLeft Oct 2015 #4
The most useless person ever to (falsely) call themselves a Democrat. hifiguy Oct 2015 #5
She's the best RNC chair ever jfern Oct 2015 #6
This is who Obama tapped as DNC chairwoman. Obama appointed Republicans JRLeft Oct 2015 #7
Tea Party enid602 Oct 2015 #8
Read the article. JRLeft Oct 2015 #9
 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. I live in Florida. Wasserman-DINO is no Democrat.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 07:59 PM
Oct 2015

Not voting for her, or any other DINO, when I get the chance.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. The most useless person ever to (falsely) call themselves a Democrat.
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 08:13 PM
Oct 2015

Jebus, she has stumped for her Repig buddies. What does that say?

 

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
7. This is who Obama tapped as DNC chairwoman. Obama appointed Republicans
Tue Oct 13, 2015, 08:25 PM
Oct 2015

to his cabinet. Dinos are republican lite.

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