Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants the bloggers off her back. Okay, first a quick review.
My main problem with Debbie Dubya is that she’s a national co-chair of the Clinton campaign, and thereby complicit in the divisive, racist fear-mongering that has characterized Sen. Clinton’s candidacy. It was in that capacity that I originally came up with the derisive moniker in a post at FlaPolitics.com.
It was just coincidence that the Herald story about the DCCC mess mess broke the same day and Progressive Florida posted over at FlaPolitics.com on that issue right after mine. He picked up the Debbie Dubya name and carried it to Swing State Project (where he’s known as Progressive America, as he is here at DKos).
DavidNYC, who was also incensed over DD’s Red to Blue Project recusal, saw the Debbie Dubya name on Swing State Project, laughingly adopted it, and brought it to Daily Kos. He has since dropped it in an attempt to be respectful and actually influence her and the DCCC.
I posted another piece about Debbie Dubya pointing out that some of her actions were characteristic of the type of politician that Markos and Jerome had criticized strongly in Crashing the Gate.
So, what would it take for me to get off her case? I’ll make it easy and give two possibilities that have nothing to do with the Clinton campaign or the DCCC.
First, speak out publicly against the Marriage Amendment here in Florida . Take advantage of the fact that you are in a safe district and make the same case that Sen. McCain made on the floor of the Senate speaking against a federal marriage constitutional amendment: it’s divisive and un-American.
Hey, your close friend Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has often spoken up for gay rights, and she’s a stinking Republican! Why can’t you do the same and help convince the older voters in your district and throughout South Florida that voting for the marriage amendment is the wrong thing to do?
Second, endorse Common Cause’s ballot initiative to stop gerrymandering in Florida. Democrats are not going to take over the State House anytime soon. If the party wants to hold on to both the congressional and legislative seats it has won or will win prior to the redistricting that the Republican legislature will impose after the 2010 census, this is critical to get passed.
You might want to confer with your fellow MOC Ron Klein about this. He could end up like Karen Thurman did in 2002. Not to mention Tim Mahoney, who might not even survive re-election, since he’s targeted by the NRCC. If he does get re-elected you know his already highly gerrymandered district will get even worse.
This is a BIG issue for the Democratic Party to address. All Democratic candidates need to bring up gerrymandering and endorse this campaign. We all need to visit the FairDistrictsFlorida.org website and download and copy the petitions and get people to sign them at campaign and party events.
Well, what do you say congresswoman? If you do either of these I will never type the name Debbie Dubya again.
Of course, if you cannot bring yourself to do either, then you probably deserve the name.