Glenn Greenwald interviews DWS challenger --- we need to support this guy.

[grasswire]

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/19/meet-debbie-wasserman-schultzs-first-ever-primary-challenger-tim-canova/

Cue all the Greenwald haters.

CANOVA: Sure. I am a lawyer by training. I studied at Georgetown University, and then was a Swedish Institute visiting scholar at the University of Stockholm. I practiced law in Manhattan for a large firm for a few years, and then went into teaching, and really my entire legal career was animated by the study of, you can say, making our institutions more democratically accountable. The thesis I wrote as a Swedish Institute visiting scholar was a comparison of Swedish and American labor law and corporate law, and comparing how in Sweden and in other European countries, labor had a seat at the table. Fifty percent of the board members were labor. And in the United States, labor doesn’t have a seat at the table. They get run over. So that is the orientation — more democracy — that has animated me throughout my career.

I served on Capitol Hill as a legislative aide to the late U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas in the early 1980s. A lot of this is on my campaign website, on the About Tim page — that I was an opponent of financial deregulation very early. I was writing in the early 1980s that the Garn-St. Germain Act, deregulation of depository interest rates and lending standards, would be a disaster, that it was a repeat of what had happened in the 1920s. It opened the door to predatory lending and sub-prime mortgages. I was calling that decades before that actually came to a crisis stage, you could say. In the 1990s, both as a lawyer and as a law professor, I was warning against getting rid of Glass-Steagall — Brooklyn Law Review article in the mid 1990s, 1995. I warned against financial derivatives. So I’ve been a constant critic of Wall Street deregulation. I’m for Main Street; I always have been. I believe in the New Deal. I believe in bottom-up economics.

My activism has manifested itself in many ways, in many forms: certainly the anti-corporate globalization movement during the time of Seattle, against the Free Trade Area of the Americas Agreement. When I was a professor at the University of New Mexico, I threw myself into a grassroots campaign to get rid of felony disenfranchisement, and it was one of the great grassroots movements I’ve ever been involved in. It’s a small state and we were able to see change come real fast. It was right after the 2000 deadlock in Florida. There was a deadlock in New Mexico also, and we woke up to find that there weren’t enough electoral votes to count in New Mexico compared to Florida, but New Mexico was one of, I think, nine states at the time where someone who was convicted of a felony was barred for the rest of his or her life from voting. And we had an opportunity because we had, even though he was a Republican governor, he was a libertarian governor, Gary Johnson, who was trying to end the war on drugs.

We got a grassroots movement that lit a fire underneath him. We got Democrats in the state house, in the legislature, to pass legislation within two months, and Gary Johnson signed it. And that’s all it took, was two months of good organization and a lot of grassroots lobbying and New Mexico was no longer a felony disenfranchisement state.

And then there’s the Occupy movement, so I’ve been engaged really my whole life. I know some people have said, “Well, you haven’t run for political office.” No, but I’ve been engaged in grassroots lobbying and activism, and the focus of my mind, my heart, my soul, has really been on public policy issues and trying to create a better world.

[onecaliberal]

1. I already donated to him this weekend. I will make sure I keep supporting him.

[WillyT]

2. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[grasswire]

3. Greenwald on DWS

In general, Wasserman Schultz is the living, breathing embodiment of everything rotted and corrupt about the Democratic Party: a corporatist who overwhelmingly relies on corporate money to keep her job, a hawk who supports the most bellicose aspects of U.S. foreign policy, a key member of the “centrist” and “moderate” pro-growth New Democrat coalition, a co-sponsor of the failed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), which was “heavily backed by D.C. favorites including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the music and motion picture industries” and which, if enacted, would have allowed extreme government and corporate control over the internet.

In 2012, at the height of the controversy over the “kill list” that the New York Times revealed Obama had compiled for execution by drone, she said in an interview she had never heard of it and mocked the interviewer for suggesting such a thing existed. In 2013, she demanded that Edward Snowden “be extradited, arrested, and prosecuted” because he supposedly “jeopardized millions of Americans” and then called him a “coward.” “The progressive wing of the party base is volubly getting fed up with her,” declared the American Prospect last week.

This year, however, Democrats nationwide, and in her district, have a choice. For the first time in her long congressional career, she faces a primary challenger for the Democratic nomination. He’s Tim Canova, a smart, articulate, sophisticated lawyer with a history of activism both with the Occupy movement (he’s against the Wall Street bailout for which Wasserman Schultz voted and the general excesses of big banks and crony capitalism) as well as a steadfast opponent of the Patriot Act (for which Wasserman Schultz repeatedly voted).

[babylonsister]

4. Rec'd for Canova; he's got my vote! nt

[grasswire]

5. thank you...

...I would vote for him too. All I can do from a distance is promote his candidacy.

[sabrina 1]

16. Me too, Canova is incredibly good. A real progressive Dem. I was thrilled when I read his bio

which sounds a whole lot,, politically, like Bernie's. He supports Bernie too which is another thing in his favor.

I'll promote him and donate because what total contrast Canova is to DWS.

[Warren DeMontague]

6. Kick

[Luminous Animal]

7. Now THAT was a good read! Thank you,

[Omaha Steve]

8. Donate to Democratic Underground for Tim Canova FL-23 at Act Blue here

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/du4timcanova

[grasswire]

12. thanks, Steve nt

[appalachiablue]

9. K & R. Sharp opponent, hope he's successful. Thom Hartmann interviewed Canova

a week ago, the video of it is posted here.

[uhnope]

10. Greenwald support will probably be the kiss of death for the guy

the more a discredited character hypes something, the more dubious it appears

[grasswire]

13. only a few here consider Greenwald a "discredited character" nt

[uhnope]

15. depends on the definition of "here" here

[scottie55]

11. Act Blue for Tim Canova = Mine

I have raised over $1,00 for Tim Canova - Goal $2,000

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/helptimcanova

[Duppers]

18. Congrats!

I donated to his campaign 2 wks ago.

I despise DWS so much.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, grasswire.

[RiverLover]

17. "I’m for Main Street; I always have been. I believe in the New Deal. I believe in bottom-up economic

This should be how ALL Democrats believe & behave.

GO Tim!!!

No more fake Dems, and esp no more DWS & Clintons.