Yes, Tim, she is. She is fighting our efforts on medical marijuana as hard as she can.

It really didn't fit in GDP...thanks for rec.

`Thanks for the reminder.

https://timcanova.com/

Born and raised on Long Island in Merrick, New York, Tim had strong family ties to South Florida before moving to the Sunshine State in the mid-1990s. He is from an immigrant half Italian Catholic, half Jewish family, which taught him the traditional values of honesty and hard work. Tim ran cross-country and track in high school and college, including on his high school varsity state championship cross-country team. As a teenager and young man, he worked in a wide variety of manual labor jobs, from delivering newspapers and cutting lawns to pumping gas, painting houses, loading trucks in a plastics factory, and picking avocados on a kibbutz in northern Israel.

Tim attended public schools K-12, completed his undergraduate studies in government and economics at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania, earned a law degree, with honors, at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., and was a Swedish Institute Visiting Scholar at the University of Stockholm.

As a legislative aide to the late U.S. Senator Paul Tsongas (Democrat, Massachusetts), Tim worked on a range of regulatory and human rights issues. While working on Capitol Hill, Tim began warning about the rise of Wall Street special interests and the assault on working families. In the early 1980s, he wrote critically about the deregulation of interest rates and lending standards and the rise of subprime and predatory lending. These practices would eventually have a devastating effect on the people of Florida when real estate markets crashed in 2008. To this day, Florida still has the highest rate of foreclosure in the country, with over 300,000 open foreclosure cases in state courts.

In the 1990s, while an associate attorney at a prominent law firm and then as a visiting professor at the University of Miami, Tim opposed efforts to weaken the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act firewalls that had separated commercial banking from the risky securities markets. He also cautioned about the rise of complex derivative financial instruments that were turning the United States into a “casino” economy. In the early 2000s, Tim warned about the growing bubble in housing prices and called for increased supervision of Wall Street banks and financial markets. He was one of the few law professors in the country who consistently opposed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, including a 1996 op-ed in the New York Times opposing Greenspan’s reappointment.

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Tim left Miami for a tenure-track teaching position at the University of New Mexico School of Law, where he was granted early tenure in 2003. While in Albuquerque, Tim spearheaded a successful grassroots lobbying campaign to abolish the state’s felony disenfranchisement law that had barred about 6 percent of the state’s voting age population from voting for life, often for non-violent drug offenses. He argued the hypocrisy of locking people up – disproportionately minority and poor, and depriving them of their voting rights -- for using the same recreational drugs that were used at some point by successive U.S. presidents and about half of all Americans. Ever since, he has opposed the misguided “war on drugs” and the privatization of prisons that has resulted in the perverse incentive of warehousing people for profit.

Go Tim!

Let's get this country back on track at all levels.

I simply must make a donation.

Honk----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

they are that upset--------------get over it, you know, the energy needs to be directed at those that have created this mess----------namely corporate lackey's

It was a great victory, now on to Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, (just imagine if she lost New York) and the rest of the states, I just can't wait to see what happens out west in my old stomping grounds

Talk to you soon



Feel the Bern


Honk-----------------for the political revolution bernie 2016

I truly believe that she is going to have problems in the west. I lived out west for almost 25 years and it was of the best times of my life---------------

Every time Hillary is asked a question in the debates about legal marijuana, she "pivots" to heroin addiction.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants people in prison for smoking pot.

That shit doesn't fly once you get west of the Rockies.

Thanks for the thread, madfloridian.

Thank you, Uncle Joe. He's an impressive challenger to Debbie who has never been challenged.

Florida media seldom mentions Bernie's name.

However that was a pretty visible rally at the airport I would say.

RW tendencies of the previous generation, Miami-wide

It was also a state wide thing. Fascinating people. They left Cuba with the first wave just as Castro took over. Very nice people, but very right wing in their views. Their children as they grew up worked as activists on the other side. They almost disowned their son for working to rescue the Cubans who never quite made it to the shore. I can't think of the name of the group now, but they were active. I could see the generational change in action.

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He'd take his own boat, and the parents would have fits about it.

I know those who fled in the first wave were generally anti-revolutionary. But not everyone who remained in Cuba did so because they supported the regime; some simply did not have the means to leave. Others may have been supportive of the revolution, but not Castro. For the animosity against those who arrived later to be so strong as to wish them to die before they reach the shore is mind-boggling. Can you give some insight into that?

I know that many in the first wave were the more prominent families who had been mainly supporting Castro. They found out at the last minute that he was not what they thought.
Maybe they have been fearful of authorities? I've tried to figure it out as well. Their minds were absolutely closed to the changes in their kids.

Wish I had money to send him. All my spare has to go to Bernie, but this is as important.

Did you notice how at the Town Hall on Monday, when Hillary came out pointing, with a bright smile like celebs do for paparazzi , as she always does,—she said, "Hi Debbie". Only time I've ever heard her say an audience member by name. DWS is so very, very special to HRC.

It's way too obvious.

He sounds like a good man, and a much, much better replacement for Dino DWS. I'll donate a little again soon.

If Hillary wins the general election, I hope DWS isn't a part of her administration. This is one question I wish someone would ask Hillary.

Kick!

He's going to look him up online and donate. Can't stand Debbie but did not know anyone was running against her.

BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What worries me much though is that the FL Dems are pretty much under the control of Clinton advocates. I would hope it would not matter, but too many don't bother to stand up against it.

DWS is despicable. After she went to the times and insulted Millennials while doubling down on putting marijuana users in prison, that was the last straw.

That's a pretty liberal area and DWS has never been opposed...so she hasn't bothered to pay attention to what the voters want. Fingers crossed.

list and have made a few small donations. I also sent the infamous DNC survey back to DWS today. Pity the poor soul who has to read it..DWS HAS TO GO.

In Kissimmee right now.