Payback’s a bitch

Bernie Sanders just delivered some payback this weekend in the South Florida congressional primary race in District 23. Lording over that district since 2005 has been Florida Congresswoman and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (photo at top, right), who is facing her first true challenge. Tim Canova (photo at top, left), the law professor and a vocal critic of Wall Street, is the Wasserman Schultz nemesis.

Canova has managed to raise nearly a million dollars since he entered the race in January of this year. It has been contributions raised very much like Sanders, by hundreds of small donors contributing small dollar amounts.

Sanders, on Sunday, in the CNN program “State of the Union” hosted by Jake Tapper, was recorded stating: “Well, clearly, I favor her opponent. His views are much closer to mine than as to Wasserman Schultz’s.”

Also, in Politico, it was reported that “Bernie Sanders cranked up his crusade against the Democratic establishment Saturday, declaring that he is supporting Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s primary election challenger.

“The move, a clear and intended affront to the Florida congresswoman, comes amid long-standing tensions between the two Democrats. Sanders and his allies contend that Wasserman Schultz has not been an honest broker during his run for the Democratic nomination and they have seethed over a number of issues ranging from the debate schedule to the amount of representation on the convention standing committees.”

In the CNN interview Sanders goes on to say that if he was elected president he would not want Wasserman Schultz as DNC chair.

Can’t blame him. Last year the DNC would not allow the Sanders campaign access to its voter data file. Also, just recently, “the Sanders campaign accused the DNC of having an inappropriate fundraising agreement with the Clinton campaign.”

Lastly, for Progreso Weekly readers, Wasserman Schultz is the member of congress who stayed out of the race a few years back when Joe Garcia faced Mario Diaz-Balart in congressional District 25, where Garcia lost. At the time Wasserman Schultz claimed to have a longstanding friendship with the Diaz-Balarts back in her day in Tallahassee. (Back then she forgot to include the fact that the Diaz-Balarts had turned her on to Mauricio Claver Carone’s U.S. Cuba Democracy PAC who was feeding her plenty of campaign contributions, for herself and to pass on to other Democratic Party members.)

Wasserman Schultz has also been a staunch opponent of President Obama’s rapprochement with Cuba.