Former All-American football player Schulz famously describes himself as a "gun-toting, meat-eating, drug-free liberal from America's Heartland." In a 2003 article, Sports Illustrated dubbed the former sports broadcaster as "too loud and opinionated."
Ed Schultz was a leader, organizer and headline speaker for the One Nation Working Together March in Washington D.C. on October 2, 2010. The event, which draw about 250,000 participants, was conceived as a response to the conservative, Glenn Beck-led March on Washington held earlier in 2010. Schultz vociferously supported labor union protests in Wisconsin against conservative Gov. Scott Walker in early 2011.
Schultz is a booster of the National Association of Free Clinics which "is an effective advocate for the issues and concerns of free clinics, their volunteer workforce of doctors, dentists, nurses, therapists, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, technicians and other health care professionals, and the patients served by free clinics in communities throughout the nation."
Ed Schultz actively supports the Occupy Wall Street Movement, along with fellow MSNBC program hosts Dylan Ratigan (often credited with igniting Occupy Wall Street), Rachel Maddow and civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton.On October 5, 2011 from Zucotti Park in New York City, Schultz was the first to originate a cable TV show from an Occupy Wall Street Movement site.
Vowed Schultz in mid-October "I got news for you -- these folks, they ain't going away. They are not going away... And I'm going to put it on TV every night. I'm going to put it on TV every night until the last protester goes home and, you know what, this is going to be a story until the next election. And these folks are not going to disengage. They will be there."
Former conservative Ed Schultz officially reregistered as a Democrat in 2000. In his first book, Schultz credits his second wife, Wendy, for growing his awareness of the homeless, uninsured and financially downtrodden."In the late 1990s, Schultz claims a series of events changed his political views... One event was his mother's battle with Alzheimer's Disease... Schultz found it frustrating trying to get her the services that she needed. Another was that he met a psychiatric nurse named Wendy who ran a homeless shelter in Fargo.He attributed much of his political change to her... To his surprise, he found that some of the people he had insulted were veterans, and many were unable to get the psychiatric or medical services that might help them. He says that was the moment he began to look at poverty differently," per Wikipedia.
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