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Brian,

To say that the Debbie Wasserman Schultz situation has become a problem is, I believe, an understatement. The fact that you do not address it in this article and rather go for a 'rah-rah' tone is disconcerting and a failure to confront what is becoming a bigger controversy. Your efforts to paint this as "much ado about nothing" have failed to convince activist democrats (a good percentage of whom donate to the DCCC) and further ignoring the issue to not going to make it go away.

The DCCC is a partisan outfit because they (like the DSCC and the DNC) are trying to get Democrats elected. If Ms. Wasserman-Schultz is unwillingly to support and fund raise for our great candidates in southern Florida than she should step down, plain and simple. She helped Ron Klein get elected in 2006, why is she afraid to do the same now?

This isn't a complicated problem, if she cannot or will not support Democratic candidates running for Congress, she is not fit to serve in leadership. No one is taking away from here legislative accomplishments, it is merely an acknowledgment that she is not in a position to lead.

I hope this situation is solved soon one way or another. There is nothing Democrats would like to see more than Ms. Wasserman Schultz step up and help these great candidates get elected in 2008. But if she is unwilling to help, the DCCC needs to find someone who will show strong leadership in rebuking Republicans and promoting Democratic challengers and their ideas in 2008.

Regards,

Robert Nelson

posted 03/24/2008 at 12:16:16