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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: We have got to stop thinking about the special interests before we think about the average American because that is…

On the recordDecember 17, 2005
We have got to stop thinking about the special interests before we think about the average American because that is really what it boils down to, and those Republicans that you are talking about, I represent a lot of them. I live in a town that precinct by precinct, 13 precincts in my town, in this city of Weston; every single one of them is majority Republican registration. I cannot walk down the street without interacting with a Republican registered voter, and by the way, I win every one of those precincts with more than 60 percent of the vote. I am certainly not a Republican, and the reason that happens is because it happens to be a community that has some wealth. People stop me in the supermarket, on the soccer field all the time and say: Debbie, keep the darn tax cut. I do not need the tax cut. It does not help me that much. I want my kid to have a good education. I want people to have health care. They understand. They understand that the economy does not boom because the top two-tenths of 1 percent of Americans get a tax cut.…
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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