While Debbie Wasserman Schultz was taken down as Chair of the DNC, will that reverberate and help take her down from her congressional reelection bid, where she s being challenged by the upstart radical law professor Tim Canova? with Tim Canova, prof of law and public finance, an Occupy Wall Street activist, who has written extensively on the need for full employment and redirecting Federal Reserve Bank assistance from Wall Street to Main Street
When WikiLeaks published a trove of hacked Democratic National Committee emails , it forced Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign her post as chair of the Democratic National Committee. Now the leaks have also triggered a formal Federal Election Commission complaint, which could lead to sanctions against the embattled Florida congresswoman. Tim Canova, the law professor mounting a grassroots campaign to oust Wasserman Schultz from her seat in Florida's 23rd Congressional District, announced he had filed the complaint. He claims the email dump proves Wasserman Schultz illegally used DNC staffers to help with her reelection campaign.
But, Canova first became interested in challenging Wasserman Schultz because of her record. This is the most liberal county in all of Florida, but she more closely associates with her significant support from corporate donors . Canova argued. She has voted against regulations forcing candidates to reveal corporate campaign donations, regulating discrimination in auto lending and rules cracking down on payday lending, while she supported fast track authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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