The Next Progressive Hope? The Man Trying To Unseat The Democratic Party Chair

[leftcoastmountains]

While he works to get his name out to Democrats in this South Florida district, Canova has picked up a lot of support nationally. Among progressives in the Democratic Party, there's a lot of anger for Wasserman Schultz and the party-at-large for being too cozy with banks and Wall Street.

In the first quarter, as a largely unknown Democratic challenger, Canova pulled in more than $500,000 in contributions, most of it from outside Florida. He expects to have $1 million by the next reporting deadline.

Canova believes Wasserman Schultz is out of step with constituents on economic and other issues, such as her support for President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. The head of the Democratic Club in Sunny Isles, Lew Thaler said when Canova spoke to his group recently, he told them he would have opposed it.

"Sunny Isles Beach is a very big Jewish community," Thaler says. "There are a substantial amount of Jewish people here. He satisfied them."

http://www.npr.org/2016/05/07/477101558/the-next-progressive-hope-the-man-trying-to-unseat-the-democratic-party-chair

[Warren Stupidity]

1. what? Iran? WTF?

NO. That ain't the fucking problem at all. Pandering to AIPAC is not a change in course.

[Scootaloo]

2. Yeah, that's... a new one for me on Canova. I did not know that.

Still, I suppose perfection ain't going to happen. There's some shit I don't see eye to eye with Sanders on too.

[HereSince1628]

3. IMO, progressives hope is in the movement, not a personality, but yes Canova

is DWS' opponent, and because of the attitude of DWS toward progressives (and independents brought to Bernie) there is a certain amount of hope and donations that flow to him.

IMO, because progressives are deeper into issues of fairness and balanced treatment, I rather suspect they are not as a group as anti-Palestinian and anti-Iran or as pro Greater Israel as the NeoCons, whose policies substantially overlap with HRC.

Remember that the NeoCon creation narrative is that Irving Kristol was a liberal (an FDR Democrat!) until he was mugged by reality of international affairs.

[silvershadow]

4. I have donated to his campaign several times now. I urge you to do the same!

You can do it here through Act Blue/DU:

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

[angstlessk]

5. Donate via DU Omaha Steve has his link to donate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=9963