Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Deborah "Debbie" Wasserman Schultz (born Wasserman ; born September 27, 1966 in Queens , New York City ) is an American politician with the Democratic Party . She has represented part of southeast Florida with Miami Beach in the United States House of Representatives since 2005 , in the 20th district until 2013 and in the 23rd congressional electoral district since then . She was chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2011 to 2016 .

Family, education and work

Wasserman Schultz is the daughter of Lawrence and Ann Wassermann and grew up in Long Island . She studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1988 and her master's degree in political science in 1990. She became an employee of Democratic MP Peter R. Deutsch in the Florida House of Representatives . When he did not run again in the 1992 election, but applied for election to the House of Representatives of the United States , she ran for his previous seat. Shortly before, Debbie Wassermann married the banker Steve Schultz. You have three children.

Wasserman Schultz is of Jewish faith and is an active member of the pro-Israel National Jewish Democratic Council and the Zionist women's organization Hadassah .

Political career

From 1992 to 2000 she was a member of the Florida House of Representatives , to which she was elected in 1992 at the age of 26 as the youngest member of parliament. For two years she was group leader of the Democrats there. She then sat in the State Senate from 2000 to 2004 .

After Deutsch announced that he would not run for his congressional mandate again in the 2004 election, Wasserman Schultz himself ran in Florida's 20th congressional electoral district. She raised $ 1 million in donations and won the mandate with 70 percent of the vote. She was Florida's first Jewish Congresswoman.

After Tim Kaines resigned , she was elected on May 4, 2011, at the proposal of US President Barack Obama, to succeed him as Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the organization of the federal party. She had previously been a deputy chairwoman of the DNC board. Schultz was the third woman to head the Democrats after Jean M. Westwood and Debra DeLee . She came under fire for organizing the party's internal primary campaign for the 2016 US presidential election . Shortly before the start of the nomination convention at the end of July 2016 , the platform Wikileaks published e-mails from the DNC's internal server, which showed that the party leadership preferred Hillary Clinton in the pre-election process over its ultimately defeated competitor Bernie Sanders . Although the statutes of the DNC require a neutral behavior in the primary campaign, thought was given, among other things, to making Sanders' personal religiosity an issue. Sanders' supporters responded with protests and demonstrations. Supporters of Sanders and employees of the democratic election campaign filed representative actions against the DNC for obvious partiality and insufficient pay. Wasserman Schultz initially announced that he would not give a speech at the party congress, but finally resigned as DNC chairman the day before the party congress began. Immediately afterwards, Hillary Clinton made her the "honorary chairman" of her presidential campaign for the planned "50-State Strategy".

In the party primary for her congressional mandate, Wasserman Schultz received a serious challenger for the first time in 2016, progressive Tim Canova, supported by Bernie Sanders. She won the internal party primary with 57 to 43 percent and defeated her Republican challenger Joe Kaufman by about 16 percentage points in the main election in November . She was safely re-elected in the mid-term election in Donald Trump's presidency in November 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Debbie Wasserman Schultz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caitlin Huey-Burns: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In: US News & World Report , April 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ Head of the US Democrats resigns. In: Der Standard , July 25, 2016.
  3. ^ Matthias Kolb : US Democrats: E-mail scandal overshadows party congress. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 25, 2016.
  4. ↑ Veit Medick , Marc Pitzke : New e-mail scandal screwed up Clinton's party conference start. In: Spiegel Online , July 25, 2016.
  5. ^ DNC Workers File Lawsuit For Fair Pay. In: CBS Philadelphia , May 12, 2017
  6. ↑ Leaked emails: Party leader of the US Democrats resigns. In: Spiegel Online , July 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ Resignation from office after party congress. In: ORF.at , July 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Lisa Hagen: Wasserman Schultz's problems aren't over yet. In: The Hill , July 31, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ Debbie Wasserman Schultz Wins Congressional Primary in Florida, According to AP In: The New York Times , September 1, 2016.
  10. ↑ Andres Viglucci: Wasserman Schultz wins reelection to congressional district. In: The Miami Herald , November 8, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Wasserman Schultz, Debbie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wasserman Schultz, Deborah (full name); Wasserman, Deborah (maiden name); Wasserman, Debbie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Democratic Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Queens , New York City