Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Anxious Miami Beach officials huddled Tuesday with Florida Department of Transportation representatives, summoned by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who met with the group, along with representatives of Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart and Debbie Wasserman Schultz. "We might be debating Iran,...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston and Robert Wexler of Boca Raton were featured in a Daily Show send-up of Congress last night. Watch it to hear host John Stewart say: "You know, I expect that kind of mess...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Debbie and Ileana share a certain vision of personal power politics Florida may be a crazy and wild state but this year it has some of the best congressional candidates running anywhere in the country. So far Blue America has endorsed two of them, Alan Grayson (Orlando) and Joe Garcia (Miami-Dade). But other stellar Democrats in the competitive races include Annette Taddeo (Miami-Dade), Samm Simpson...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
You've seen the T-shirt now here's the speech: U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston addressed the Hadassah national convention today in Los Angeles on behalf of Democrat Democrat Barack Obama. "I would not be here today if I had...
Discourse.net (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
DownWithTyranny!: Another Exceptional Candidate Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Trying To Undermine In Florida— Meet Annette Taddeo sets out the case for Democrat Annette Taddeo’s upcoming victory in the Congressional district where I live: FL-18 is the most Democratic leaning (PVI- R +4) of the three districts and Annette’s campaign is both well-organized and well-funded. Last year two state assembly...
DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
I was excited to give Joe Garcia's congressional campaign in Miami-Dade a little push Saturday when I saw an advance of Sunday's NY Times Magazine story, Will Little Havana Go Blue? David Rieff wrote a long superficial piece full of inaccuracies I didn't address. But I want to. First off, Little Havana is neither in the district where Joe Garcia is challenging Mario Diaz-Balart or in the district where...
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
by kos Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 08:15:15 AM PDT The Florida Republican Party (and some Democrats like Debbie Wasserman Schultz) are kept afloat by the corrupt south-Florida Cuban-American mafia. Now, their three south-Florida reps are facing the challenges of their lives, and at least two are already in serious trouble. Bendixen & Associates. 6/6-22. MoE 5% in each district. (No trend lines) FL-25 Diaz-Balart...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
"Women are more powerful than ever in the Capitol," reports a Capitol Hill NPR station. But female members of Congress are also forced to hike around three corners, down a corridor and across a sprawling hall to the closest ladies'...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
The Washington Post notes one of the key architects of the Bush administration's war policies -- vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff -- had several "tense exchanges with lawmakers" including Florida's Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of House...
tampabay.com blogs (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Well, sorta. John McCain will hold a "tele-town hall meeting" starting at 6:45 p.m. with independents and Democrats from Broward and Palm Beach counties. Which prompted a just-finished conference call with U.S. Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Robert Wexler, who...
Change In Tallahassee (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz: I firmly believe that Congress has no greater responsibility than keeping our country safe. In November, and again in March, I voted to give our Commander-in-Chief the legal tools he needs to track terrorists, intercept their communications and disrupt their plots because that legislation also protected core American civil liberties that make our country great...
baldilocks (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Various Democrats parroting the talking points on solving the gasoline crisis: "We can't drill our way out of this." Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL), US Senate, Party Whip, 5/13/2008. "We can't drill our way out of this." Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz...
Florida Sun Sentinel (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Wasserman Shultz joins as a co-leader U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, is one of the leaders of the newly formed House LGBT Equality Caucus.
Extreme Mortman (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
While these two camps appear strikingly similar … “John McCain gets that it now costs $80 to fill up your minivan when it used to cost $40,” [McCain] strategy director Sarah Simmons said. “When you spend $76 to fill up the tank of your minivan, that’s real money,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)… … these two camps [...]
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Sen. Bill Nelson and Reps. Corrine Brown, Kathy Castor, Alcee Hastings, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Robert Wexler - all Democrats - earned 100 percent ratings from Environment Florida in its latest congressional scorecard. The group says it plans to distribute...
