BrownSox at DailyKos has a call to action this morning asking Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who has a key leadership role at the DCCC, to support Democrats. Yes, it's come to that:
To recap: Wasserman Schultz, along with fellow Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek, recently told the Miami Herald that they would be on the sidelines for three high-profile races in South Florida with Republican incumbents, in the 18th, 21st and 25th Districts.DavidNYC has been writing about this controversy for the past couple weeks at Daily Kos and Swing State Project. Today, across the progressive blogs, there's an effort to fix this -- and you can help:
These races pit, respectively,
FL-18: Annette Taddeo against Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
FL-21: Raul Martinez against Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart
FL-25: Joe Garcia against Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart
Compounding the problem, Wasserman Schultz was also recently quoted heaping praise on Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, which surely can't do much for Annette Taddeo's campaign.
You can help take action and pressure Rep. Wasserman Schultz into doing the right thing. Call or email Wasserman Schultz' campaign office. Call or email the campaign office of the chairman of the DCCC, Representative Chris Van Hollen. Call or email DCCC headquarters itself. Here's the relevant information:How can we ever expect to win Florida when Democratic members of Congress aren't helping Democrats? How can we end the Iraq war or pass SCHIP without more and better Democrats?Debbie Wasserman Schultz (campaign office):Let your voice be heard. Be polite and respectful; I think we're being pretty reasonable in what we're asking for, and I think our argument is strong and that we're on the right side. Let the argument speak for itself.
E-mail: AskDebbie@DWSforCongress.com
Phone: 202-741-7154
DCCC Chair Chris Van Hollen (campaign office):
E-mail: chris@vanhollen.org
Phone: 301-942-3768
DCCC Headquarters:
Contact form
Phone: 202-863-1500
Democrats need to be Democrats. It's not that complicated.
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