Subject: Debbie Wasserman Schultz

• Beth Reinhard Adjusts Her Attitude

  August 9, 2006

• The Wasserman-Schultz Cult

  May 15, 2007

• Local Reporters' Political Tribs

  June 21, 2007

• Undercurrents

  February 11, 1999

• Put The Brakes On The Bailout

  September 28, 2008

• Dark Horse Dem Emerges in Race for Martinez Seat

  On the Democrat side of the Florida's 2010 U.S. Senate race, the field keeps getting larger, with Congressman Allen Boyd, of Monticello, looking like a contender. Boyd (right) runs with the congressional Blue Dogs -- socially conservative Democrats who walk and talk so much like Republicans, it can be hard to tell the difference. The Blue Dogs increased their numbers in 2006 and 2008, and their presence is going to moderate what looks on paper to be a liberal House of Representatives. But before

  December 5, 2008

• My Lunch With Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  On Wednesday I met Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at Jaxson's Ice Cream Parlor on U.S. 1 in Dania Beach for a wide-ranging discussion -- including my paranoid delusions about the sinister deal-cutting that must take place when voters aren't watching.The congresswoman insists that she has never thrown footwear at a political nemesis, not even FBI Director Robert Mueller, who she excoriated last April from her place on the the House Judiciary Committee. The temptation hasn't struck

  December 19, 2008

• Undercurrents

  October 7, 1999

• Letters to the Editor

  June 7, 2001

• Weston Congresswoman Lands Promotion; Will Help Us Get More Stuff

  Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Weston Democrat (not to be confused with the Westin Diplomat), has been named the vice chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which is a long way of saying she's in a better position to get us more stuff. In particular, if that stuff falls under the purview of the Department of Treasury, Federal Trade Commission, Federal Drug Control Programs, or the Council of Economic Advisors, so much the better.

  January 8, 2009

• Reporter Bound for D.C. Seeks Gotcha Questions, Ball Gown, Proper Footwear

  When I was a wee college student at FSU, my best friend and I decided to road-trip to DC for President Clinton's inauguration.  There we were, two unprepared, underdressed 18-year-olds waiting for hours upon hours in the freezing cold for little more than a nanosecond's glance at a speeding limo.  Still, the trip was awesome --  we stalked our celebrity crush, Peter Jennings; I got interviewed by a New York Times reporter (I remember looking forward to Chelsea causing havoc/sneaki

  January 13, 2009

• Eating Cookies With Congressman Wexler

  On Monday, Democratic Congresspersons Robert Wexler, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Ron Klein held a "dessert reception" to welcome folks to the inauguration. They walked from their offices in the Capitol: directly across the lawn to the Library of Congress: where attendees had to wait in line to go through a security checkpoint, and where a certain Florida state senator could be overheard grumbling that this was supposed to be a private reception with invited guests only, but Debbie Wasserman S

  January 20, 2009

• FL Congressional Members Have Heated Offices, Bitchin' Doors

  Since I was in Washington this week, I figured I'd stop by the Capitol to pay our congressional delegation a visit. Also, because it's heated.I caught a few minutes (and I do mean a few... like, seven) with a very busy Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (above), who said that this session, "priority number one is to get this economy turned around." She mentioned creating jobs -- especially the green kind -- and energy independence as goals. Asked whether her own family had felt the impact of the reces

  January 23, 2009

• Wasserman Schultz Pushing for Delay in Digital TV Switch

  Starting February 18, television signals are scheduled switch to digital, meaning that people with analog televisions (read: the elderly) who don't have converter boxes would lose their signal. But today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to push conversion back to June. President Obama is expected to sign that bill into law tomorrow.Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been circulating this pamphlet to her constituents, but there are still 5,000 people in her West Broward congression

  February 4, 2009

• Wasserman Schultz Beats Breast Cancer

  C. StilesWasserman SchultzAround this time one year ago, I was researching an in-depth article on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the fast-rising Democratic congresswoman who represents the West Broward suburbs and still manages to be a minivan-driving soccer mom for her Weston family. I had no idea until this weekend that at the same time, she'd just learned she had breast cancer.Back then, it seemed that Wasserman Schultz's gravest adversity was her fierce commitment to Hillary Clinton's fading pres

  March 23, 2009

• Wasserman Schultz on Hardball

  West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz appeared this evening on Hardball, the Chris Matthews show on MSNBC. She was a Matthews favorite even before she revealed this weekend that she'd been diagnosed with breast cancer more than a year ago and underwent a double mastectomy as well as an operation to remove her ovaries, which were also at risk for cancer. "I knew she was gutsy," Matthews intoned. "I just didn't know how gutsy."First, video of Matthews bestowing upon Wasserman Schultz

  March 24, 2009

• Wasserman Schultz Has Everywhere Trick

  (Spoiler Alert: If you haven't seen the movie The Prestige, stop reading this post now, because I'm going to give away a crucial plot twist.)Remember that seemingly impossible trick in The Prestige by Christian Bale's character? On one side of the stage, he closes a door behind himself while in the very next second he comes out of a door on the other side of the stage. Eventually, it's revealed that one man is actually a pair of twins, and the trick makes sense.This is the only way to explain th

  March 30, 2009

• Wasserman Schultz Tames Fox News

  In her capacity as a leading Democratic surrogate, West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had some tense moments while appearing on the allegedly "Fair and Balanced" news network. But two weeks after revealing that in the past year she had seven surgeries to defeat breast cancer, Fox News yesterday made Wasserman Schultz its Power Player of the Week. In the video, she tells of gutting out a campaign fund-raising appearance while hiding a "pain pack" in her purse.Yes, she managed

  April 6, 2009

• Florida Is Cleaner

  No sale!

  December 25, 2008

• War Between Obama Mamas and Palin Pretties in Lake Worth

  October 23, 2008

• Lady of the House

  She's got three kids, 650,000 constituents, and millions of watching eyes. Debbie Wasserman Schultz can't keep them all happy.

  May 29, 2008

• Wasserman Schultz Pummeled in Press

  C. StilesDebbie Wasserman SchultzThis time of year, the nation's college football teams stage spring practices, and in a measure to spare quarterbacks from risk of injury, teams dress that player in a red or yellow jersey -- a visual reminder to linebackers that this one player is untouchable. When Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced last month that she had had a double mastectomy in the course of a year-long tangle with breast cancer, the media handed her a protective jersey.And no

  April 15, 2009

• For Congress, Mum's the Word on Netanyahu Visit; But Jewish Scholar Has Opinion

  Flickr User: talkradionewsBroward and Palm Beach's Jewish congressional members were all eagerly anticipating this week's visit to Washington D.C. of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and yet none appear eager to speak about it. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office made no statement following a morning meeting with Netanyahu she attended with other congressional members. Ron Klein attended the same meeting but offered a bland commentary that belies his mastery of the subject. So, too, has

  May 19, 2009

• Tailpipe

  Nixon/Agnew '04

  November 11, 2004

• Speaker Pelosi Visiting Hollywood Monday

  Flickr user: jurvetsonNancy PelosiNancy Pelosi will appear at a news conference Monday with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to announce $1.5 million in funding for Broward Community & Family Health Centers. That money's a tiny chunk of the nearly $800 billion federal stimulus package that passed in February. With a policy that huge, Democrats have looked for individual stories that can demonstrate its positive impact. According to the news release just issued by Wasserman Schultz's of

  April 17, 2009

• Florida GOP Leads a Lamb to Slaughter

  Don't. Jump!You're right about one thing, Joyce Kaufman: The mainstream media are not likely to take the congressional candidacy of Dennis Lamb seriously. Here's my best effort: Dennis Lamb? Seriously?This Hollywood man -- who either has no political experience or simply forgot to mention it on his new website -- is going to challenge Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who in every new congressional session has gained leadership posts and influence within the legislative branch's dominant party. A Democr

  June 24, 2009

• Safe!! Or... Unsafe? Wasserman Schultz Breaks Leg Sliding Into Second Base

  Photo by C. StilesWasserman SchultzWest Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz won her personal battle against breast cancer, and in the war against the disease, she just won a purple heart. Last night in Washington, D.C., during a softball game whose proceeds went to breast cancer, Wasserman Schultz fractured her leg and sprained her ankle while sliding into second base.A former varsity softball player, the game was Wasserman Schultz's idea. Said her press secretary, Jonathan Beeton: "S

  July 15, 2009

• A Maverick Match Made in Republican Heaven

  Flickr User: flsurfkarmaMarco RubioAfter Charlie Crist annihilated Marco Rubio in the most recent round fund-raising for the U.S. Senate campaign, the boyish former House Speaker needs a Gamechanger. You know, someone who can bolster his maverick persona. Maybe someone who, like Rubio, gives Republicans hope that there's a younger, more attractive generation of GOP who are bold enough to upset the old guard.Enter Sarah Palin. The recently turned ex-governor of Alaska may be toxic to Democrats bu

  July 15, 2009

• Will Tea Party-Types Take Their Show on the Phone?

  Photo: house.govWasserman Schultz​As the district staff of Congressman Ron Klein learned this week, South Florida legislators are at risk of having their town hall meetings mobbed by people who think Glenn Beck is sane. This group's current source of hysteria is the Democrats' health care reform plan. Or, as they might put it: his nefarious plot to make America a socialist nation.And, to be clear, Klein's wasn't even a town hall meeting, per se, but rather a monthly meeting for constituents to

  August 7, 2009

• Morning Juice: Senator Sidesteps Corruption Probe; Triple Murder in Lake Worth

  ​On what's unofficially the last week of summer, here's what's in the news:Florida's U.S. senator designate, George LeMieux, did not fall for an effort by Alan Mendelsohn, the Hollywood ophthalmologist and Charlie Crist fundraiser, to lure the administration into admitting complicity in the Mutual Benefits fraud, according to investigators in that case. [Miami Herald] The Seminoles and Charlie Crist's office are expected to announce a deal that would allow the tribe to play blackjack in exchan

  August 31, 2009

• Meek, Rubio, I-Team Ganging Up on Crist and LeMieux, But Other Broward Dems Are Gun-Shy

  Congressman Kendrick Meek just posted the above video from CBS 4's Tuesday newscast to his campaign's YouTube account, and you can see why. It shows Charlie Crist playing dumb about the role that George LeMieux's law firm, Gunster Yoakley, played in getting visas for the immigrant workers who were hired for a big hotel-condo project in Bal Harbor instead of unionized American workers. Jim DeFede, who's a former writer for this paper, pointed out that while LeMieux may not have worked directly on

  September 10, 2009

• Broward Republicans: Still Crazier Than Broward Democrats

  Would you elect this man?​With an ethics scandal rocking the Democratic powers of Broward County -- and just a few days after a Democratic mayoral candidate for one Broward city was arrested for pulling a gun on his daughter, the Democratic mayor of Broward County -- the Republican Party may have been looking pretty inviting to your average local political observer. Or at least until those Republicans took that precious piece of political capital to the gun range, where they riddled it with bu

  October 9, 2009

• In the Clutch, Republican Activist Shows a Bit of Class

  Flickr: eric.slausonLive by the gun... resign by the gun.​One of Broward County's leading Republican activists, Ed Napolitano, is resigning from his leadership positions with the party, two weeks after leading a controversial trip with fellow Republicans to a gun range in Hallandale Beach. The Sun-Sentinel broke the story and has a copy of the letter that Napolitano sent to Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.In a county where we've become accustomed to shameless acts by political figures,

  October 23, 2009

• Quote Machine: Wasserman Schultz Catching Flak for Renaming Public Option

  Wasserman Schultz​Does "consumer option" sound more inviting than "public option"? How about "competitive option"? In case it does, Fox News is warning its partisan audience that whatever West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Nancy Pelosi call it, it's still a "public option" -- which still translates to the dreaded "big government."Normally, efforts to re-brand public policy, deserve the eye rolls they get. But then you look at polls like this one, which suggest that roughly

  October 29, 2009

• Debbie Wasserman Schultz Now a Lightning Rod in Party Politics Over Health Care

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the EconomyMove over, Alan Grayson. There's another Florida Democrat who's not afraid to ruffle Republican feathers -- West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In yesterday MSNBC segment (roughly 3:15 of the video above) she was given the chance to recant a quote that appeared in this Politico article -- the part about women being "repulsed" by the Republican Party.As you can see, she not only stood behind those words, she

  November 10, 2009