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BlueCaliDem

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19. So according to your stringent rule, Sanders is a repub, too, then?
Tue Dec 8, 2015, 11:42 AM
Dec 2015

1:...He got along famously with then Governor G.W. Bush in 1998 during the Sierra Blanca scandal, meeting with the Repub in Texas in order to work together on getting Vermont's nuclear waste dumped in the backyard of mostly Spanish-speaking Mexican Americans in Sierra Blanca, Texas. He cosponsored and actively pushed the bill while, in contrast, Senator Paul Wellstone fought hard against it.

2:...Although Vermonters pushed to impeach G.W. Bush, Sanders dismissed it calling it "impractical".

3:...He praised G.W. Bush in the March 21, 2003, when he supported the resolution on Iraq, stating,
"Congress expresses the unequivocal support and appreciation of the nation to the President as Commander-in-Chief for his firm leadership and decisive action in the conduct of military operations in Iraq as part of the ongoing Global War on Terrorism."

Does that make Sanders a repub in your view?

In my view, no. Because that would be pure hyperbole.

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