Who Owns Debbie Wasserman Schultz?

Doug Ricketson
2 min readAug 18, 2020

I could not let the Congressional primary in Florida’s 23rd district pass without posing the question, “Who owns Debbie Wasserman Schultz?”

Below you will find a fairly complete list of her corporate donors and benefactors.

“1–800 CONTACTS, INC. PAC”,”$1,000.00"

Accenture,”$1,000.00"

Aflac,”$5,500.00"

Amazon.com,”$2,000.00"

American Airlines Group,”$3,500.00"

American Express,”$2,500.00"

AmerisourceBergen,”$2,500.00"

Amgen,”$1,000.00"

Anthem,”$1,000.00"

AT&T,”$13,500.00"

AutoNation,”$5,000.00"

Bacardi,”$4,000.00"

Bank of America,”$1,000.00"

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida,”$10,000.00"

BNSF Railway,”$2,500.00"

Boeing Company,”$7,000.00"

CBS,”$1,000.00"

Cerner,”$8,500.00"

Cisco Systems,”$11,000.00"

Citigroup,”$10,000.00"

Comcast Corporation,”$17,500.00"

Cox Enterprises,”$5,000.00"

Cozen O’Connor,”$3,384.00"

CSX,”$5,000.00"

Cummins,”$1,500.00"

CVS Health,”$1,000.00"

Dell,”$6,000.00"

Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC),”$1,000.00"

Dow Inc.,”$1,000.00"

Duane Morris,”$1,000.00"

Eli Lilly,”$6,500.00"

EMBRAER AIRCRAFT HOLDING INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (EMBRAER PAC),”$5,000.00"

Faegre Baker Daniels LLP,”$1,000.00"

FLIR Systems,”$1,000.00"

FLORIDA EAST COAST INDUSTRIES INC GOOD GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE (FECI PAC),”$12,500.00"

FLORIDA TURBINE TECHNOLOGIES INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (FTT PAC),$500.00

“Genentech, Inc.”,”$1,000.00"

General Dynamics,”$9,500.00"

General Electric,”$4,500.00"

General Motors,”$3,500.00"

Glover Park Group,”$1,000.00"

Goldman Sachs Group,”$7,500.00"

Google,”$6,000.00"

Granite Construction,”$1,000.00"

GrayRobinson,”$1,000.00"

Greenberg Traurig LLP,”$3,000.00"

Harris Corporation,”$5,500.00"

HNTB Corporation,”$1,500.00"

Honeywell International,”$15,000.00"

Humana,”$15,000.00"

Intel,”$1,000.00"

Jacobs Engineering Group,”$1,000.00"

JetBlue Airways,”$1,000.00"

Leidos Holdings,”$3,000.00"

Lockheed Martin,”$3,000.00"

Marsh & McLennan,”$3,000.00"

MasterCard,”$1,000.00"

Microsoft,”$4,500.00"

Motorola Solutions,”$4,000.00"

NextEra Energy,”$10,000.00"

Nike,”$2,000.00"

Northrop Grumman,”$12,500.00"

Parsons,”$2,500.00"

Pfizer,”$2,000.00"

Prudential Financial,”$3,000.00"

Publix Super Markets,”$3,000.00"

Regions Financial,”$1,000.00"

Salesforce.com,”$1,500.00"

Sierra Nevada Corporation,”$1,000.00"

Smithfield Foods,”$1,000.00"

Sony Pictures Entertainment,”$1,000.00"

Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits,”$15,000.00"

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX),”$2,000.00"

Toyota,”$5,000.00"

U.S. Bancorp,”$2,000.00"

UBS,”$5,000.00"

United Parcel Service,”$10,527.00"

United Technologies,”$3,500.00"

UnitedHealth Group,”$7,500.00"

Universal Music Group,”$3,000.00"

Verizon Communications,”$4,000.00"

ViacomCBS,”$2,000.00"

Visa,”$3,000.00"

VMWare,”$1,000.00"

Walt Disney,”$4,500.00"

Waste Management,”$4,000.00"

Wells Fargo,”$2,500.00"

For a grand total of ”$373,911.00" for just this cycle alone.

Now, the numbers above, generously provided by Maplight, poses one fundamental question for those Floridians who will find themselves in a voting booth today: If Debbie Wasserman Schultz is owned by all the above corporate interests, how can she possible represent your interests?

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