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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
3. that's why nearly 90 percent trust him
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:14 PM
May 2016

Even Republicans who worked with him call him honest and genuine.

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
7. Indeed
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:38 PM
May 2016

Before he represented Vermont in congressman. His Republican predecessor a man of courage voted for gun control legislation.

The great fighter progressive hero


made his opposition a campaign issues and won because of it.

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
6. What about about that poor latino community in Texas he voted to dump Vermont's nuclear waste on.
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:36 PM
May 2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eoin-higgins/what-about-sierra-blanca-bernie_b_9233818.html



http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/8/1481494/-Sierra-Blanca-Bernie-Sanders-Paul-Wellstone-a-Poor-Minority-Community-and-a-Nuclear-Waste-Dump

He basically told them to screw off.


A delegation from Texas reached out to Sanders and tried to reason with him, citing the environmental and human degradation the waste site would create. They thought they would get an empathetic response from the nominal socialist.


“My position is unchanged and you’re not going to like it.” When asked if he would at least visit the proposed site in Sierra Blanca, he said: “Absolutely not. I’m gonna to be running for re-election in the state of Vermont.”


Sounds like a sellout to me.

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
13. Could that be the reason why Bernie has only released one year of his Tax returns?
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:35 PM
May 2016

Because the fact his family has profited from dumping nuclear waste on poor people might prove to be a wee bit embarrassing?.

ContinentalOp

(5,356 posts)
10. LOL, he sold out to a nuclear waste dump for a mere $4900 a year!
Thu May 5, 2016, 02:31 PM
May 2016

Unless Jane was paid more in previous years which might be why they don't want to show us the tax returns.

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