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I know who you are talking about. Check this out...
The Week in Review
Saturday, August 23, 2014
With the police and protester clashes in Ferguson, Missouri, as a backdrop, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced on Wednesday that he will introduce legislation to address the national crisis of black youth unemployment. It was reported on Wednesday that an entire city in the South Pacific is being rebuilt on higher ground because global warming is raising sea levels. Sanders has proposed a tax on carbon, an idea explored in a documentary video launched on Wednesday. And Sanders joined thousands of Vermonters at Fridays funeral for former Sen. Jim Jeffords, who died on Monday at age 80. Jeffords was a champion for the environment, education and disability rights, the issue that prompted the lifelong moderate Republican to leave the party.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-082314
He was the first national pol that actually did something about it. (In the House or Senate, Sorry for that, I needed to edit, was typing too fast)
There is more from that same week...
Police Tactics When you see the kind of force thats been used in Ferguson, it really does make it appear that the police department there is an occupying army in a hostile territory and that is absolutely not what we want to see in the United States, Sen. Bernie Sanders said on Monday. Weve got to rethink a lot of this heavy equipment that police departments around the country are utilizing. The senator was interviewed on MSNBC about the police response to protests in the St. Louis suburb since Aug. 9, when an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white police officer. Watch
Again, he was among the first, if not the first politician to address militarization of the police.
No, I am not a supporter or booster. I care for facts.
And that is just that week. Sanders has been at the forefront of trying to do something concrete about many of the issues that affect inner cities, black communities, hispanic communities, and issues of poverty, as well as civil rights, for decades.
I think the time for me to slink quietly away is coming. I can see the attacks are starting, and soon they will involve his religion. On the bright side, this means he is becoming a real threat, becuase this is 2008 all over again.