{"id":1590,"date":"2011-10-07T12:03:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2011-10-07T12:03:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T16:03:25","slug":"republican-candidate-ready-challenge-wasserman-schultz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/republican-candidate-ready-challenge-wasserman-schultz-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican candidate says he&#8217;s ready to challenge Wasserman Schultz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 2px;\" title=\"Ozzie defaria announcement speech\" src=\"http:\/\/ozzieforcongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC0496-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/>By Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"OzzieforCongress.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ozzieforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ozzie deFaria<\/a><\/strong> hopes his extensive business background and conservative anti-tax, anti-government spending views make him the candidate who can vanquish one of South Florida\u2019s most popular politicians, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston.<\/p>\n<p>deFaria, also a Weston resident, said this week he\u2019s seeking the Republican nomination to unseat Wasserman Schultz, who\u2019s seeking her fifth term in Congress and also serves as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Wasserman Schultz regularly racks up two-thirds of the vote. In 2010, a historically bad year for Democrats, she won with 60 percent. But deFaria\u2019s confident he could defeat her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe she has the support she thinks she has,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not looking to pick a fight with a big bad bully. The problem is the big bad bully is in my backyard. And I\u2019ve beaten longer odds than running against Debbie Wasserman Schultz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several candidates have been in the race for months, including Karen Harrington, the unsuccessful 2010 Republican nominee against Wasserman Schultz; Joe Kaufman, who campaigns for Israel and raises concerns about radical Islam; and Joe Goldner, a tea party activist.<\/p>\n<p>deFaria said he respects the other candidates, but \u201cI know for a fact that I have the strongest business background of any of the candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read more, visit: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/broward\/blog\/2011\/10\/republican_candidate_says_hes.html\">http:\/\/weblogs.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/politics\/broward\/blog\/2011\/10\/republican_candidate_says_hes.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel Ozzie deFaria hopes his extensive business background and conservative anti-tax, anti-government spending views make him the candidate who can vanquish one of South Florida\u2019s most popular politicians, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston. deFaria, also a Weston resident, said this week he\u2019s seeking the Republican nomination to unseat Wasserman Schultz, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[258,622,623,624],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-debbie-wasserman-schultz","tag-florida-20","tag-florida-gop","tag-ozzie-defaria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Republican candidate says he&#039;s ready to challenge Wasserman Schultz - Alliance Strategies Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.asgroupinc.com\/republican-candidate-ready-challenge-wasserman-schultz-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Republican candidate says he&#039;s ready to challenge Wasserman Schultz - Alliance Strategies Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel Ozzie deFaria hopes his extensive business background and conservative anti-tax, anti-government spending views make him the candidate who can vanquish one of South Florida\u2019s most popular politicians, U.S. Rep. 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