“Despised” And “Irrelevant” Wasserman-Schultz Offered To Change Her Position On Marijuana If Donor Would Stop Saying Mean Things About Her
By Robert Gehl, February 20, 2015.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was willing to change her tune on medical marijuana if a top donor would stop saying nasty things about her.
The thin-skinned and interestingly-coiffed congresswoman from Florida is considering a Senate run in Florida. She’s desperate to line up her big liberal, deep-pocketed friends. But after a back-and-forth with pot-proponent John Morgan, she might be in trouble.
A few months ago before the November elections, Wasserman-Schultz issued a statement opposing a medical-marijuana initiative. The initiative was backed by Morgan, an Orlando lawyer and wealthy liberal donor.
The initiative (which needed 60 percent approval under state law) failed by two points and Morgan was livid. He called DWS ““despised…an irritant…irrelevant.” And his group blasted Wasserman-Schultz.
“Almost 58 percent of Florida voters supported medical marijuana and I’d be surprised if that many support her,” said Bill Piper, national affairs director with the Washington-based Drug Policy Alliance. “That should be a lesson for Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Florida voters like this policy more than her. And we’ll make sure people know her position.”
But Morgan said he will try again in 2016 – and since it’s a Presidential election year and since DWS might run for senate, she wants him to stop saying mean things about her.
When Politico tried to ask DWS about the brouhaha, that launched an e-mail chain where Wasserman-Schultz’s staffers tried to make a deal:
Her team reached out to the campaign manager for the medical marijuana initiative — Ben Pollara, a top Democratic fundraiser and consultant in Miami — and offered him a deal.
Pollara, who refused to comment, detailed the offer in an email to Morgan a few hours later, the donor said, with the subject line: “DWS.”
“In a tizzy over this politico story. Saying she might be willing to support new amendment. Any chance you’ll retract your statement,” Pollara wrote.
Morgan responded about two hours later in his email calling her a “bully.”
“Actions have consequences,” Morgan told POLITICO on Thursday. “Her days of pushing people around are over.”
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