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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 stuf ... More >>
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 lim ... More >>
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 ... More >>
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 numbe ... More >>
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 expe ... More >>
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 ... More >>
(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 ... More >>
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, Fo ... More >>
No sale!
She's got three kids, 650,000 constituents, and millions of watching eyes. Debbie Wasserman Schultz can't keep them all happy.
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 ... More >>
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, Wasserma ... More >>
Photo: house.govWasserman SchultzAs 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 p ... More >>
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 ... More >>
Wasserman SchultzDoes "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" -- ... More >>
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 w ... More >>
FlickrEvery so often, there's a news event that suggests (or proves?) that the modern media is making the world an even more confusing place. This week, the office of West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced that former Politico.com writer, Jonathan Allen, had been hired as a ... More >>
Photo: C. StilesWasserman SchultzThis coming week's cover story in the National Journal will reveal the results of a survey of political and Capitol insiders, who speak candidly about their political colleagues in exchange for anonymity. It's a little bit like a high school yearbook poll, isn't i ... More >>
wassermanschultz.house.govDebbie Wasserman SchultzThis week's Republican upset in the Massachusetts Senate race cost Democrats their filibuster-proof majority and dealt a powerful blow to the party's hopes for health care reform. This afternoon I asked West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman ... More >>
Former Politico reporter Jonathan Allen heard all the predictable "liberal media" howls late this past year after he left to join a committee for West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. All that grief only to leave the Wasserman Schultz office after a mere 40 days -- and go back to jour ... More >>
Photo: C. StilesDebbie Wasserman SchultzJust got off the phone with Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who stepped off the House floor to describe the scene at the center of the political universe."If you look at our side of the chamber, there's a frenzy of activity, members hugging and smil ... More >>
Flickr: ParagonWhat tea partiers lack in grammar they make up in passion.Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz must think that local tea party activists don't have Tivo. (Actually, since a lot of 'em are retirees, maybe they don't?) She just announced a town hall meeting for Monday from 7:30 to ... More >>
I can't imagine a single person who was present at last night's town hall meeting by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz who would say the event was productive or worthwhile. The opponents of health-care reform and the Democratic Congress showed no interest in a dialogue; they just wanted to scre ... More >>
Less than a year after breaking her leg while sliding into second base during a charity softball game, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz was back on the diamond, trying to outslug a team of Capitol Hill reporters. The congressional team lost, but at least it stayed injury-free. Proceeds went to ... More >>
Photo: Robert Kunst for CongressKunst wants to defeat Wasserman Schultz, then impeach Obama, then protest Wasserman Schultz and Obama policies.Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a tough customer -- so tough that even a hardened combat vet-turned-politician like Allen West didn't dare run against her, ev ... More >>
Harrington after her victory in the primary.Karen Harrington knows she has an uphill battle in front of her. But she also knows a thing or two about long, hard fights. After all, Harrington is a two-time cancer survivor and the sister of Billy Mitchell, the video game whiz framed as the villain i ... More >>
Talk about scary politics. Republicans are throwing a Halloween party in Pembroke Pines next Friday night. As part of the festivities, they will be holding a U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz look-alike contest that the invitation says "could scare the devil himself." The ... More >>
Last week, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told us she was in the room when Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes. Last night on MSNBC, she said Giffords has been making exciting improvements, including, at one point, somehow giving her husband a neck massage. This weekend, the usually pointed congres ... More >>
via Sun SentinelDebbie Wasserman Schultz and Gabriel Giffords, who was shot in the head earlier this year.The Florida House's self-defeating restoration of plans for a prescription drug database to help fight our state's lethal abuse epidemic caught quite a buzz last week. But Congresswoman Debbi ... More >>
Around the world, political writers begin their days hoping for an opportunity to attack the elected officials with whom they usually agree. They do this because writers are ever afraid of bias, and because not even the greatest human animals can't stand to be improved by the occasional bout of s ... More >>
Wasserman-SchultzLet's just get this out there, 'cuz somebody's gotta say it and the Infiniti-driving Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is apparently too thick-tongued to articulate anything other than decades-old talking points. So here it goes: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz did not lie, and did not display i ... More >>
house.govDebbie Wasserman SchultzDemocratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz isn't very good at retracting statements.Wasserman Schultz was on CNN Sunday when she said Republicans want to bring states back to Jim Crow-era laws, drawing the ire ... More >>
Debbie Wasserman SchultzDemocratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is now the basis of a recycled joke.American Crossroads -- the group that provided millions of dollars to put conservative candidates in office in the 2010 midterm electio ... More >>
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz finally earned a victory against the press -- at least in the charity softball game she played last night.After two consecutive losing games and suffering a broken leg at the hands of Capitol Hil ... More >>
Allen West: Under the impression he's still in third grade.If you haven't noticed, Rep. Allen West typically resorts to name-calling when things don't go his way.After Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz called out the "Cut, Cap, and Balance" legislation and made reference to West, he decided to do a t ... More >>
colbertnation.comThank goodness there's a big name in politics standing up for Rep. Allen West in his battle against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- even though he's a comedian/newsman."We know the tone of our political discourse in Washington hits a new low every day," Stephen Colbert said on h ... More >>
It's time for a little Pulp told-you-so: Rep. Allen West says an apology to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz over his email rant "is not happening."He's also upset as to why people are giving attention to all of the name-calling he dropped in his email.West went onto Fox Business Network today sayin ... More >>
Award recipient Rep. Allen WestIt looks like Rep. Allen West came away with two great accolades this week for his email tirade to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: The love of Stephen Colbert and the "Worst Week in Washington" award from the Washington Post.The award from the Post comes courtesy of ... More >>
Rep. Allen West would prefer to be insulted to his face but pulls his punches via email or at Tea Party gatherings.Rep. Allen West decided to insult Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz again over the weekend, but in spite of his angry email tirade to her saying Wasserman Schultz "doesn't have the guts" ... More >>
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, apparently not the spokeswoman for Jimmy Hoffa.As Democratic National Committee Chairwoman and South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz ought to know, when she's invited to a Fox News interview, it's probably a trap.Naturally, when she was invited on to Fox & ... More >>
Harriet Tubman Joseph McCarthy Allen WestIt seems like it's been a while, but Rep. Allen West is back on the media circuit, this time declaring President Obama a "Marxist" and saying he'd "need a bucket" when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's name was brought up.Yesterday, West was a guest of the M ... More >>
We reported last week from the scene of a Southwest Ranches town hall meeting where so many people showed up to protest a proposed immigrant detention pen that BSO deputies just started blocking people from entering the council chambers, citing fire code.The detention center wasn't on the agenda ... More >>
wired.comUpdate: Click through for a sample voicemail received by one Southwest Ranches resident yesterday.--Original post, 11/2: Debbie Wasserman Schultz's office has confirmed that it received 40 to 50 phone calls yesterday from Pembroke Pines and Southwest Ranches-area residents who were autom ... More >>
Yesterday we reported that Pembroke Pines and Southwest Ranches were getting phone calls from the Corrections Corporation of America asking whether they support a proposed immigrant jail detention center "processing center" that Southwest Ranches is gunning to build on a plot of land near the Eve ... More >>
A new poll shows that Republican Rep. Allen West, who cruised to a near-ten-point victory over his Democratic challenger in 2010, is viewed less favorably than DNC Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- in the Broward portion of West's own congressional district.The poll, commissioned by Bro ... More >>
U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wrote a letter (see below) in April to ICE Director Gary Mead indicating her support for the proposed immigrant detention facility that private contractor CCA wants to build in Southwest Ranches.Today, she went on the radio with WIOD-AM (610) host Jimmy Cefalo. ... More >>
Rep. Debbie Wasserman SchultzDemocratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a finalist for PolitiFact's 2011 "Lie of the Year" award(?), thanks to her accusation that Republicans want "Jim Crow laws."Wasserman Schultz joins President Obama -- who was nominated twice ... More >>
Fox "News"If Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz said something profoundly stupid, we'd be all over it.Unfortunately, this is a case of a Fox News writer saying something profoundly stupid.When the headline "DNC Chair Blames Tea Party for Tucson Shooting" comes with a chopped-up video clip and an ellip ... More >>
bagelradio.comIf you go to Wikipedia's website today, you may cry after finding it's not giving out information today. The Google logo is also blacked out on that website, and Reddit and other sites are also blacking themselves out today.If you're looking for someone local to blame for any of you ... More >>
mobileapptesting.comBelieve it or not, South Florida Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Ted Deutch -- supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act -- happened to get a lot of money from interest groups supporting the legislation.According to the nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization ... More >>
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