“I spoke to him almost every day,” Wasserman Schultz said. “Good days or bad, he made sure that he personally told me his vote preferences. Some days he might say, in his Alcee way, ‘Why the hell are we voting on this?’ I cherished catching up with him. Other days, he’d just share his vote and the call would end too soon.” No matter how he felt, she said, Hastings was “always gracious. Always grateful.”