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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz aka the “DNC Medusa”<\/p><\/div>\n

SOTN<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Editor’s Note:<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is perhaps no other politician in the Democratic sphere of corruption who so personifies everything that is wrong with American politics than DNC Chief Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. \u00a0Every aspect of her ongoing political manipulations wreak of BIG MONEY electioneering at it absolute worst. \u00a0It’s as though she is getting paid so much under the table by her corporate sponsors that she simply does not care about her public image anymore. \u00a0Nor does she give whit about how her own Democratic colleagues view her. This woman has made enemies of everyone in sight … …. … except, that is, of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

There are even many veteran Democratic operatives and high-powered politicos who feel that Wasserman-Shultz is actually functioning as Clinton’s closeted campaign manager. Her relentless ‘gerrymandering’ of the whole primary process in favor of the forever presumptive nominee is completely without precedent. \u00a0Never in U.S. presidential election history has a party chair been so hellbent on shoehorning their preferred candidate at the very start of the campaign season (and doing so in such an utterly transparent manner). She is now called the “DNC Medusa” because of her many snakelike charms that she employs in the interest of guaranteeing a Clinton win.<\/p>\n

There are even many GOP political analysts who now feel that Wasserman-Schultz is really a Republican plant who will not let the very damaged goods — Hillary Clinton — go quietly into the past. \u00a0With an ongoing FBI investigation vexing her at every turn, this highly charged criminal case is surely to further sully Clinton’s already damaged image. \u00a0The truth be told, both Emailgate<\/em> and Servergate<\/em>\u00a0both represent serious crime sprees against the nation which have been fastidiously covered up by the Obama Administration because of Obama’s direct complicity.<\/p>\n

Then there is the even more serious problem of husband Bill’s sordid sexual past. \u00a0For a female candidate who casts herself as a champion of women, her actions against those who were raped or sexually assaulted or sexually abused by Bill are as shocking as they are reprehensible. \u00a0If any of those assaulted women could prosecute Hillary for being an accomplice to the cover-up, they surely would.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, this op-ed is not about Clinton, it’s about the DNC Chair who has enabled and empowered the extremely untrustworthy candidate. \u00a0Hillary is the probably the worst Democratic candidate in history, and that’s just based on what we know about her countless high crimes and misdemeanors. \u00a0 Why is Wasserman-Shultz so determined to see the serial criminal Clinton into the Oval Office?! \u00a0What, really, have her (DNC Chair’s) hidden masters promised her to fix the nomination process in every way possible to seal a Clinton victory.<\/p>\n

State of the Nation<\/a>
\nMay 23, 2016<\/p>\n

Author’s Note<\/p>\n

Bill Moyers does a great job below making more mincemeat of DNC Chief Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.<\/p>\n

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Democrats Can\u2019t Unite Unless Wasserman Schultz Goes!<\/h1>\n

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Bill Moyers,\u00a0<\/span>Managing Editor
\nMoyers & Company<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Democratic National Committee chair has thrown fuel on the flames of infighting just as the party faces a critical November election.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To paraphrase the words of that Scottish master Robert Burns, the best laid plans of mice, men \u2014 and women \u2014 go often astray, or \u201cgang aft agley,\u201d as they say in the Highlands. No one knows this better than Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Twice now, the flight of her presidential aspirations has been forced to circle the airport as other contenders put up an unexpected fight: In 2008, Barack Obama emerged to grab the Democratic nomination away and this year, although all signs point to her finally grabbing the brass ring, unexpected and powerful progressive resistance came from the mighty wind of the Bernie Sanders campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Certainly, Hillary Clinton is angered by all of this, but the one seemingly more aggrieved \u2014 if public comments and private actions are any indication \u2014 is Democratic National Committee chair and Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Hillary surrogate who takes umbrage like ordinary folks pop their vitamins in the morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As we recently wrote, \u201c… She embodies the tactics that have eroded the ability of Democrats to once again be the party of the working class. As Democratic National Committee chair she has opened the floodgates for Big Money, brought lobbyists into the inner circle and oiled all the moving parts of the revolving door that twirls between government service and cushy jobs in the world of corporate influence.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And that ain\u2019t all. As a member of Congress, particularly egregious has been her support of the payday loan business, defying new regulations from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that would rein in an industry that soaks desperate borrowers. As President Obama said, \u201cWhile payday loans might seem like easy money, folks often end up trapped in a cycle of debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In fact, according to an article by Bethany McLean in the May issue of The Atlantic<\/em>, \u201cAfter studying millions of payday loans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found that 67 percent went to borrowers with seven or more transactions a year, and the majority of borrowers paid more in fees than the amount of their initial loan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A recent editorial in the Orlando Sentinel<\/em> notes that 7 percent of Florida\u2019s population \u201cmust resort to this predatory form of small-dollar credit – nearly the highest rate in the nation…\u201d What\u2019s more, \u201cBased on a 14-day loan term, the typical payday loan… had an annual percentage rate of 278 percent. Many lenders advertise rates of more than 300 percent.\u201d Let us repeat that slowly… 300 percent!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So why has Wasserman Schultz been so opposed to the CFPB\u2019s proposed rules? She has said, \u201cPayday lending is unfortunately a necessary component of how people get access to capital, [people] that are the working poor.\u201d But maybe it has something more to do with the $2.5 million or so the payday loan industry has donated to Florida politicians from both parties since 2009. That\u2019s according to a new report by the liberal group Allied Progress. More than $50,000 of that cash has gone to Rep. Wasserman Schultz.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But we digress. It\u2019s the skullduggery going on within the Democratic Party establishment that\u2019s our current concern and as we wrote in March, Rep. Wasserman Schultz \u201chas played games with the party\u2019s voter database, been accused of restricting the number of Democratic candidate debates and scheduling them at odd days and times to favor Hillary Clinton, and recently told CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper that superdelegates \u2014 strongly establishment and pro-Clinton \u2014 are necessary at the party\u2019s convention so deserving incumbent officials and party leaders don\u2019t have to run for delegate slots \u2018against grassroots activists.\u2019 Let that sink in, but hold your nose against the aroma of entitlement.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Now Wasserman Schultz has waded into the controversy over what happened or didn\u2019t happen last weekend when Sanders supporters loudly and vehemently objected to the rules at the Nevada State Democratic Convention. In truth, some behaved badly at the event and others made trollish, violent and obscene threats to Democratic state chair Roberta Lange via phone, email and social media. There\u2019s no excuse for such aggressive, creepy conduct, and Sanders was quick and direct in apologizing for the behavior of the rowdies and bullies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But there is a double standard at play here. Why, pray tell, shouldn\u2019t the peaceful majority of Sanders people be angry at the slow-motion, largely invisible rigging of the political process by Wasserman Schultz and the Clinton machine \u2014 all for the benefit of Secretary Clinton?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wasserman Schultz claims the party rules over which she has presided (and manipulated) are \u201ceminently fair.\u201d She told CNN on Wednesday morning, \u201cIt is critical that we as candidates, we as Democratic Party leaders, everyone involved needs to make sure that we can take all the steps that we need to, to ensure that the process is not only run smoothly but that the response from the supporters of both candidates is appropriate and civil.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In response to the DNC chair\u2019s remarks, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver talked to CNN, too, and said Wasserman Schultz had been \u201cthrowing shade on the Sanders campaign since the very beginning… Debbie Wasserman Schultz has really been a divider and not really provided the kind of leadership that the Democratic Party needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Nation<\/em>\u2018s Joan Walsh, a Clinton supporter critical of the Sanders campaign, concurs: \u201cOnce again, Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz escalated a conflict that she should have worked to defuse,\u201d she writes. \u201c… Wasserman Schultz is not helping her friend Hillary Clinton with her attacks on Sanders. Just the appearance of fairness can go a long way in assuaging worries about fairness. Wasserman Schultz\u2019s defiant rebuke to the Sanders camp has made it worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So, too, has her abolition of the restraints that had been placed on corporate lobbyists and big money \u2014 now they can write checks bankrolling what doubtless will be swank and profligate parties during this summer\u2019s Democratic National Convention. At The Intercept<\/em>, Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani report that a number of the members of the Philadelphia host committee \u201care actively working to undermine progressive policies achieved by President Barack Obama, including health care reform and net neutrality. Some… are hardly even Democratic Party stalwarts, given that many have donated and raised thousands of dollars for Republican presidential and congressional candidates this cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This is a slap in the face to progressives calling for a halt to big money and allowing lobbyists to buy our elected officials. And it\u2019s contrary to what Hillary Clinton herself has said about money and politics on the campaign trail. The Sanders movement has shown that lots of cash can be raised from everyday people making small donations. His supporters and all of us should be outraged that Debbie Wasserman Schultz and convention officials have kowtowed not only to the corporate wing of their own party but also to those high rollers who back the opposition and ideas antithetical to a democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rep. Wasserman Schultz is facing a primary challenge for the first time this year, her opponent a law professor, activist and progressive Sanders supporter named Tim Canova. But the primary\u2019s not until late August, long after the Democratic National Convention. Unless she steps down now or Hillary Clinton has her removed, Philadelphia will be dominated by someone who represents everything that has gone wrong with the Democratic Party and Washington. At the convention\u2019s opening session, Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be bringing the gavel down squarely on progressive hopes of returning the party to its legacy as champion of working people and the dispossessed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We\u2019ve said it before and we\u2019ll say it again: Time for her to go.<\/p>\n

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