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Debbie Wasserman Schultz- She Should Be Looking for a New Job

by Javier Manjarres
There’s been much speculation within political circles of late that DNC Chairwoman/Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz may not seek another term in Congress and instead look to position herself for a comfy seat in President Obama’s cabinet were he to win reelection.
There’s been talk that the cabinet position Wasserman Schultz would be in line for would be the Secretary of Health and Human Services,which is currently under the direction of Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  C’mon, wouldn’t you all want Debbie in charge of administering government-run health care for over 300 million people?
While Wasserman Schultz’s congressional campaign website is up and running, the latest news entry is from March 1, 2012- more than a month ago.  Considering that Wasserman Schultz has been feverishly campaigning across the country for the President and the Democratic Party, it’s not a stretch to think that she’s in the process of making her exit from Congress.
Rumors have been circulating that Democrat State Senator Nan Rich would replace Wasserman Schultz were she to step down from Congress.  Another name that has been tossed around as a potential successor to Wasserman Schultz is Rich’s daughter Laurie Rich Levinson.
According to the Florida Supervisor of Elections, the date Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz is required to qualify by June 8th.  If she does not qualify by petition or pay to get on the ballot by then, she will not be eligible to run for reelection. If you go to the Florida Supervisor of Elections website, you will see that Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz’s name isn’t even listed as a candidate or incumbent. As you scroll up or down the listings of congressional districts, note that all of the other members of Congress running for reelection, are listed as ‘Incumbents,’ except for Wasserman Schultz, who is not listed as either an incumbent or a candidate.
All of the Republican candidates running to defeat Wasserman Schultz are listed except for Gineen Bresso and Juan Eliel Garcia, who have both recently announced their candidacies. Of all these candidates, including Bresso and Garcia, Karen Harrington is the only Republican that has qualified to be on the ballot for the August primary, and for the November general elections.
Is Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz setting the table for an early exit from Congress?  Debbie will no doubt be getting detailed internal polling in the coming weeks that gives her a pretty good idea as to what Obama’s chances are- it’s not likely that she’ll tether her political fate to his if she sees that Obama is likely to go down in November

Of all of the most vile, bold face, shameless liars in politics, no one tops acting DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. We have videos of her and youtube is rife with them; bloggers have sliced and diced her lies with verifiable sources from one end of the country to the other.

Like mother like daughter?Of all of the most vile, bold face, shameless liars in politics, no one tops acting DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. We have videos of her and youtube is rife with them; bloggers have sliced and diced her lies with verifiable sources from one end of the country to the other.

Like mother like daughter?

Broward-Pal Beach Times:

Richard Rubin Sentenced to Ten Months in Federal Prison

RICHARD RUBIN AND DIANA WASSERMAN-RUBIN
Richard Rubin — husband of former Broward County Commissioner Diana Wasserman-Rubin, who still faces seven felony charges of her own — was sentenced this morning to ten months in federal prison.

Rubin, 66, pleaded guilty in April to federal tax evasion after failing to report $100,000 in fees he received from the town of Davie for a land deal he brokered in 2004.

With attorney David Bogenschutz at his side, Rubin managed to get only ten months up the river — which is in accordance with sentencing guidelines but much less than the maximum penalty of five years.

Rubin had said in court that he and the wife faced financial burdens from damage done to their home by Hurricane Wilma and also owed on a loan he could not repay — which is why he attempted to cheat on his taxes a bit.

That also wasn’t too long after Rubin took in $1.1 million for writing grants for the town of Southwest Ranches — grants that were approved in part by the votes of his wife while she was a county commissioner.

Then, the probable-cause affidavit released last year contended, the couple was living quite lavishly — including spending money on artwork, cruises, vacations to Europe, and a $150,000 home repair project.

Rubin wasn’t charged with tax evasion until April of this year.

The State Attorney’s Office, however, charged Wasserman-Rubin last year with seven counts of felony unlawful compensation related to her votes for her husband’s grant-writing.

Rubin has until August 31 to report to his new home at a minimum-security prison.

Wednesday, 17 Aug 2011 05:25 PM

By Martin Gould and Kathleen Walter

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the congresswoman in charge of President Barack Obama’s reelection bid, has been slammed as “a Chihuahua in high heels,” by former adversary Mark Foley.

And Foley said he can fully understand why fellow Florida Rep. Allen West got upset with her, calling her “vile” and “not a lady” after she attacked him.

“I didn’t like the way he responded to her, but I know exactly why he got mad at her, because she’s the kind who kind of sticks the finger in your chest and keeps belittling you,” said Foley, who sat with Wasserman Schultz in both the Florida House and in Washington.

In a wide-ranging interview with Newsmax.TV, Foley, a Republican who resigned from the House in 2006, did not mince words over politics and the state of the country. He said:

• Dozens of incumbents in Congress will be booted out next year as voters hate both parties equally;
• Mitt Romney would be a better presidential candidate if he stopped running away from his record as governor of Massachusetts;
• He is not sorry to see Tim Pawlenty quit the race for the GOP presidential nomination, and;
• If he had still been in Congress, he would have voted in favor of raising the debt ceiling.

He also addressed his own cancer, saying he is now in recovery after the removal of his prostate gland just five weeks ago.

Foley said Wasserman Schultz has a habit of “sticking her foot in her mouth” which could come back to hurt her.

“She claims Americans don’t support the auto industry because they don’t buy American cars and she has two foreign cars,” he said.

And her latest claim that Obama is in good shape going into the next election is another example of her saying things that are not backed up by reality. “He dipped below 40 percent approval rating, the worst presidential approval rating in recorded history. If she thinks that’s a benchmark for launch, good luck to her.”

Foley said Wasserman Schultz’s role as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee involves trying to put West out of a job as a Congressman so he can understand why he got angry with her.

“I’ve known Debbie a long time. I served in the state House with her,” he said. “She’s a Chihuahua in high heels. She’s nip and tuck and I can see why Allen West got mad.

“When someone’s day job is to eliminate your job, which is what she’s supposed to do, that can rile you, but he should not have responded in the way he did.”

On the presidential race, Foley, now a real estate agent and radio talk show host, said a “business-inspired candidate” such as Romney, Texas Gov. Rick Perry or former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman would have the best chance of beating Obama.

“He has presided over the worst economic mess and amplified the mess,” Foley said of the president. “He can go ahead and blame George Bush and the Republicans all he wants – we deserve some blame for the economic misfortune we find ourselves in – but there’s a point where he has to stop and play leader of the free world.

“My gut tells me Perry’s going to be a pretty quick star. He’s managed a state that’s a border state and has had to deal with immigration which will be the top tier issue facing America. He has more job starts in America than most any state and Austin, Texas is one of the most enviable places to live in the country, so most of the things he has done he seems to have done well.”

Foley made it clear he was not endorsing Perry, but added, “Someone like him, who has managed in an economic turmoil and has proven after 10 years as governor that he can lead us to the promised land and create jobs – that’s a pretty good message.”

He said front-runner Romney would be better served if he stopped trying to pretend he was not responsible for things that went on in Massachusetts when he was governor.

“If Romney would honestly own his Massachusetts record and stand up and say, ‘Yeah, I voted for those things, I was governor of the most liberal state in America and here’s why I can be president based on that notion,’ I’d admire him a lot more. But he seems to distance himself from where he was in Massachusetts.

“He was a great governor, great leader of the Olympics, a great business mind and could instantly bring credibility to the White House effort to create jobs in America.”

Foley said that Pawlenty’s withdrawal from the field was no bad thing, and suggested others struggling in the polls should soon follow. “It clears some of the wood and allows people to say, ‘hey there’s a good set of candidates we can choose from.’ “

Foley predicted that the 2012 election will be another watershed as voters express their dissatisfaction with incumbents from both parties, and the prolonged battle over raising the debt ceiling was a prime example of the malaise in Washington. “I would have voted to raise it,” with spending reforms, he said.

“People are frightened. They are frightened for their own survival. They are worried about their jobs, they’re worried about their mortgages, worried about their kids’ future.

“They look at their 401(k)s, look at their bank statements, look at job security and they’re frightened. Then they see our political leaders arguing as if they are schoolchildren in a fight. It’s permeated the psyche of people unlike I’ve ever seen before. They now hate both parties universally. They hate members of Congress be they are men or women.

“They distrust the president for not providing solutions, they are tired of him just constantly blaming someone else – if he had his way he would be blaming Reagan for the problems today. So they sense a lack of leadership, a lack of optimism and clearly a lack of focus on the direction out of this problem.”

On his cancer, Foley urged men around his age, 56, to have annual prostate checks and not make the mistake he did. “My father had prostate cancer and I should have assumed that it would be hereditary. That being said, I missed a couple of annual physicals,” he admitted.

“I feel great but there are a lot of things that had I been more aggressive at the front end, they could have planted a little seed in the prostate and it could have killed the cancer, but instead I ended up in a radical prostatectomy, which is a removal. That’s not fun.”

Foley, who quit near the end of his sixth term in Congress, said he often thinks of returning to politics.

“I enjoyed the job. I love helping people solve problems…I miss the debate. I miss helping seniors and veterans. I loved finding a problem and solving it for people.”

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Read more on Newsmax.com: Mark Foley: Wasserman Schultz ‘Chihuahua in High Heels’

by Javier Manjarres

It is no secret that Congressman Allen West(R-FL) and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) are not going to be rubbing elbows in the Congressional cafeteria anytime soon.  Just weeks ago, Wasserman Schultz called out West on the House Floor which prompted West to reply back with a blistering email that Wasserman-Schultz subsequently released to the media and made national headlines. The tiff between the two members of Congress stems back to when Wasserman Schultz held her very own “Tea Party” inspired event in front of West’s campaign office where she clearly impugned West’s character.

At a Fort Lauderdale Tea Party social even earlier today, one of West’s constituents recalled a moment in Congressman West’s D.C. office where West was able to convince his friend (a former staunch supporter of Wasserman-Schultz) to become a Republican with just four simple words. Watch the video clip: