Skinner: DU switches to general election mode on June 16, 2016

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54. Bernie is not a Democrat

and he's not going to become one.

When asked if he would officially join the party on April 30, 2015, when he announced his candidacy, Sanders said, "No, I am an independent who is going to be working with the —"

Yet Sanders continued to fight with the party locally and his "goal was the destroy Democrats," Maurice Mahoney, the head of Burlington’s Democratic Party in the 1980s, told Politico.


When he ran for the Senate a decade later in 2006, still as an independent, ...
His website states he's an Independent.

"Bernie Sanders is serving his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. His previous 16 years in the House of Representatives make him the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history. "
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/about


But he sure is good as using the Democrats whenever convenient for him.


Like for his current presidential campaign and previously to get committee assignments because he refuses to work with anyone.


"After calling it "ideologically bankrupt," Sanders lobbied for admission into the Democratic caucus for practical reasons (getting coveted committee assignments, mustering votes for bills), according to news reports from his first year in Congress. But party leaders wouldn’t let him join as he refused to become a Democrat."

When he ran for the Senate a decade later in 2006, still as an independent, the party worked to stop Democratic candidates from running against him, and he was endorsed by numerous state and national Democrats.