Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been widely accused of being a key architect of “rigging” the primary in favor of Hillary Clinton. Among the various controversies surrounding Wasserman Schultz was her blocking Bernie Sanders’ campaign from accessing the DNC’s voter data files, which contain email addresses and telephone numbers for constituents. Now Tim Canova, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University who is running against Wasserman Schultz for her seat in Congress, has revealed that found out that he too is blocked from accessing Democratic voter data. Mind you he is a Democrat but the state Democrats confirmed that only incumbents can gain access to the valuable resource in what critics have said is a blatant effort to favor such candidates. Canova has made the denial to the VAN system part of his campaign while various groups and individuals have campaigned for her to be removed as DNC head.
Florida Democratic Party spokesman Max Stelle is quoted as saying that the Florida Democratic Party does not offer data access “to candidates challenging incumbent members of Florida’s Democratic congressional delegation. This policy has been applied uniformly across the board since 2010. We stand with our incumbent members of Congress and we’re proud of the job they do representing the people of Florida. The Voter File is proprietary software created and owned by the Democratic National Committee that is maintained and operated by the Florida Democratic Party here in state.”
It was such on unbelievable statement that I checked to make sure that there was not a hoax and there is such as person as Max Steele. There is. It is unbelievable that the party, which is supposed to be neutral and inclusive, defends a rule designed to make it more difficult for democrats to challenge incumbents despite overwhelming public sentiment against the establishment. While insisting that they are eager to incorporate Sanders supporters who are fighting the establishment, they also openly protecting incumbents from challengers.
Canova is a Sanders supporter who teaches banking and corporations.
Karen
College kids use student IDs. Voter Suppression laws will not accept a student ID.
Old people give up driving and let their driver’s license expire. No more photo ID.
Poor people do not own cars. No driver’s license. No photo ID.
Poor people and students do not have credit cards or bank accounts.
You are unfamiliar with how many American citizens live.
Once upon a time in the USA people were stuffing ballot boxes. This is why you have to prove who you are. This coming November we are going to have people voting who are not even citizens. This crap has got to stop. I wish my fellow citizens would just wake up. Why bother being a citizen, so you can pay the bills. God bless america.
Tnash
Perhaps the readers here would find it helpful to learn more about the Acorn voter fraud. The fraud was for voter registration – nobody cast an illegal vote or ever intended to cast an illegal vote.
Acorn workers, typically people who earn very little, were paid to register voters. The fraud was making up the names and addresses of people who did not exist thereby earning another $1.50 (guesstimate) for making stuff up. I’m glad they were convicted.
Voter ID laws only protect against voter impersonation. I would be delighted to read any supporting evidence of any convictions of voter impersonation found throughout the USA. My understanding that it is very very very rare.
The key or lead water boarder at Gitmo was nicknamed Wasserman. It is pronounced like the W is a V.
Dead people don’t vote…come on down to Miami, not only do they vote, they vote early and often.
As for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have you ever heard her talk…her brain rattles around like a BB in a boxcar, just doesn’t make any sense.
Joan from Vermont:
Were you aware that in order to attend the Democratic Convention, you are required to present a valid state issued photo ID? You also need a valid, current photo ID to:
1. Vote in union elections
2. Cash a check
3. Use a credit card at many stores
4. Get any documents notarized, including a home loan and medical power of attorney
5. Drive a car. The license has photo ID to prove it is you.
I could go on, but basically valid ID is required to engage in life in America. Voting is just one of them. Funny, but I haven’t heard that ID requirements to have a medical POA were racist or against the poor. In fact, you can be required to have two valid forms of ID for many transactions. States have resources available to help the poor and elderly get their ID, which is especially crucial for them to receive benefits as well as get various POAs and medical directives.
You may also be unaware that there have been many journalists who discovered that illegal aliens vote in CA as a matter of course. Many are completely unaware that it is illegal to do so.
Why do you need photo ID in any of these transactions? Because of fraud. So unless the Democratic National Convention is racist, anti-poor, and trying to disenfranchise voters, then no one else is who requires people to prove their identity for any transaction.
I would love to see the Republican elites steal the nomination from Trump at the convention and pick, e.g. Romney, and Trump’s ego demanding he run as an independent. The for the Democrats to do the same to Bernie who goes back to his independent roots and runs as an independent. Throw in the Green Party (probably the only other party to be able to get on enough ballots to win), and you have a 4-5 way race. Could it be the non-violent revolution?
“It is unbelievable that the party, which is supposed to be neutral and inclusive, defends a rule designed to make it more difficult for democrats to challenge incumbents despite overwhelming public sentiment against the establishment.”
Why would you think the Democratic Party is either neutral or inclusive? It’s part of the Duopoly. Ask Richard Dreyfuss if the DNP is either, consider there was an effort to drum him out of Hollywood for merely attending a Cruz rally out of curiosity.
I disagree vigorously with Bernie Sander’s policies. I think he would tax us into the next banana republic. However, he deserves the same fair shot as anyone. These efforts to protect the status quo, including super delegates and withholding the VAN, are unfair.
Wasserman-Schultz/Hillary/Bill/Obama/Bushes/corporatists/Nestle & Monsanto: cabal.
The parties: talk about restriction of “trade.” Two “choices,” platforms they think you blindly agree with.
This is why: Bernie, Donald
I went to a Bernie Sanders house party a couple of months ago. About 30 people showed. 20 or so twenty somemthins, 8 or so 65 + women and me, 53 yr old. After a lively discussion and confirmation of our support for the Bern, the subject of our local democratic party came up. The youngsters were fired up to go to the local Dem party headquarters and ask for help in supporting Bernie. They seem crestfallen when I told them that Clinton has the Democratic Party support and Bernie is not wanted. So sad to watch their innocence disappear when the veil is removed from their eyes.
But keep fighting. I just went to Tim Canova’s website and donated.
BEAT WASSERMAN SHULTZ……she know’s NUUUUUTHHHINK!!!!!
Another argument for term limits
@Tnash
That is the math everybody seems to be relying on. I do think Trump has a chance to flip some of those blue states. I think Trump/Kasich would be a shoo in, too. Or even, and this is wild, Trump/Jim Webb.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
@Tnash:
That sounds fair! But my money, and my time is on Trump! Plus, my BFF Penelope Dreadful, has taken to twitter, and she is wicked clever! Here is one of her subtle jabs, that I did for her on MSPaint:
https://pansiesforplato.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/fieldsquestion.jpg
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Squeeky, I’ve studied presidential campaigns and elections back to the Howard Taft era, when I was just a lad.
What I’m seeing for November is the Democrats starting with “a lock” on 246 electoral votes.
24 shy of the 270 needed. I think the solid Red States would give the GOP “a lock” on about 210 electoral votes.
IMO, Trump would need to take both Florid and Ohio, which have become key swing states.
And he’d need to darn near run the board, take most of the 6 or so remaining swing states.
I think a Kasich/ Rubio ticket would have been the GOP’s best shot…. a really strong ticket.
I can’t see Trump pulling it off.
More evidence on top of heaps already existing that the major political parties work for no one but themselves. We’re doomed.
To “Squeeklana”
I think if Trump is nominated, the GOP will get clobbered in November.
Keeping in mind Yogi Berra’s observation that “predicting is hard, especially about the future”,
we’ ll see how this turns out over the coming months.
If I’m right, there will be an ” I told you so”.
If I’m wrong, we’ll just drop the subject.
5 ACORN workers were sentenced to jail for systematic voter fraud in Washington State.
There were allegations of more ACORN voter fraud in about 8 other states; I don’ t know the outcome in these states.
With a hodpog a different standards in 50 states and thousands of polling places, there are definately holes in the system.
New York residents who wintered in Florida were said to have voted in both states in some recent
elections.
Last time I checked, there were about 20 states that crosschecked voter registration
As far as I know, there is no nationwide system of that kind.
Wasserman Schultz is a butt-kissing authoritarian. A political scow drifting with the liberal tide, bereft of more than 2 or 3 ideas. Btw, she dropped one of those ideas when she sold out Israel last year. Thanks to those Iranian ICBM’s that stance really hasn’t worked out for her. Word is she actually quit her synagogue because of being criticized by the local rabbi. How dare he!
Despite Wasserman Schultz’s antics she still has an 85% chance of reelection. Her opponent is afraid to play hard ball, plus her nascent weakness is not one of Canova’s strengths. In a district with a very large number of Jewish voters Wasserman Schultz is wide open to attack for selling out Israel, but Canova does not appear to be a particularly pro-Israel candidate. In fact, Canova is far enough Left to be pigeon-holed into a BDS type.
This congressional dummy could have been beaten, but Canova is likely not the guy to do it. Too bad.
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@BMW
I agree with you! I could almost vote for Bernie before I could Ted Cruz. Kasich??? Yeah, I could vote for him. But I am all for Trump! But if it was Trump and Bernie, the establishment would have a bad day no matter which way it came out.
Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
Joan from Vermont: there is proof! A woman in Ohio was arrested in 2013 for voting 4 times! She claimed to be voting for her family and used their names. She voted 4 times for BO so stick that in your pipe and smoke it! That is why you need to see ID and, excussssse me, but your argument is lame. There are plenty of other things people need an ID for so this is a FALSE argument. Democrats prey on the students, the poor and the elderly so they feel they are being disadvantaged. It’s as false as “you can keep your doctor, if you like your doctor”. Politicians have always lied, now they just do it to our face.
bam bam, Since you need to sign in in order to vote, did anyone sign in as the deceased person? If so, it’s fraud. If not, no harm. I expect that the BoE will need more than a phone call to remove someone – a death certificate or a newspaper obituary.
The BoE registration records are publicly owned. Much of the data base can be reconstructed. In NYS, you can get the entire list, county by county, that includes name, address, party, dob, when voted over some number of years. It takes time and money to construct an entire database from the CDs, but it is doable. What is missing, that is probably in the party database, is information related to donations and, perhaps, volunteer activity.
The party elite tend to pick their candidates and aren’t appreciative of those they consider interlopers. Trump and Sanders are two examples who were not “picked”. Just heard MSNBC saying that Sanders doesn’t have a chance. He’s in about the same position as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in their campaigns.
Bettykath: “He’s in about the same position as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in their campaigns.” Oh how I’d love to see Trump v. Sanders. Please lit be true!