1. Timothy A Canova is an American politician and law professor specializing in banking and finance.
17 Facts About Tim Canova
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Tim Canova later supported President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
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Tim Canova was born and raised in Merrick, New York on Long Island.
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Tim Canova is a professor of Law and Public Finance at Nova Southeastern University's Shepard Broad College of Law.
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Tim Canova previously held an endowed professorship as the inaugural Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law at the Chapman University School of Law.
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Tim Canova taught as a visiting law professor at the University of Miami School of Law, and the St Thomas University School of Law.
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Tim Canova has published articles in Dissent and The American Prospect criticizing the US Federal Reserve.
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Tim Canova vocally supported the efforts to pass the amendment to the 2009 Dodd-Frank bill authored by former Congressman Ron Paul, and Representative Alan Grayson, that would have mandated auditing of emergency spending by the Federal Reserve.
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Tim Canova decided to run against incumbent former Democratic National Committee chair, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the 2016 Florida Democratic Party's primary election after getting what he considered a "brush off" from her staff in 2015.
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On issues of Florida specifically, Tim Canova rejected Wasserman Schultz's opposition to a medical marijuana ballot measure that, according to polls, had the support of 58 percent of Florida voters.
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Tim Canova accused Wasserman Schultz for taking corporate money, citing his large base of small-dollar donors.
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On June 15,2017, Tim Canova announced that he was entering the primary for the 2018 Democratic nomination in Florida's 23rd congressional district.
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Tim Canova was gunned down, assassinated under suspicious circumstances just days after publication of those leaked emails.
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Tim Canova received 4.9 percent of the vote in his second attempt to oust Wasserman Schultz.
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Tim Canova told reporters that he had in fact received more votes than Wasserman Schultz both in 2016 and in 2018, based on reports he heard from his own campaign workers.
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Tim Canova requested that the 2018 election be set aside in favor of a new election in which all ballots would be counted by hand.
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Tim Canova added that he would be willing to work with the Trump Administration in the future.