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sabrina 1

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3. Every victory is important. And every battleground should be fought for.
Tue May 5, 2015, 09:35 PM
May 2015

The unions have supported Bernie and have expressed great disappointment towards the Dem Party since it has become more and more Corporate.

In 2012 eg, the Unions and other Liberal Groups formed a coalition and sent a warning to the Dem Party telling them not to take their longtime support for granted anymore, not to to continue to assume 'they have nowhere else to go'.

A meeting of that coalition of many organizations including Unions raised several million dollars.

I am sure Bernie has received signs from many of these Liberal Orgs and Unions that IF he runs, they would find him very interesting. He has as much as said so when asked if he was surprised by the positive reaction to his announcement. He wasn't surprised because of the signals he had received before making his decision.

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