WHAT HAS BERNIE EVER ACCOMPLISHED?

[BigBearJohn]

[fourcents]

1. Founding member of the Democratic Caucus, Help write & expanded ACA,FED audited for first time

Turned ActBlue into a donor powerhouse for the Democratic party. I got more how bout you......

[eridani]

2. I think you mean Progressive Caucus n/t

[MrMickeysMom]

8. Right...

Progressive Caucus..

K&R!

[Baobab]

9. Bernie was Re-elected again and again, first mayor of Burlington, then Congress, then Senate.

Hillary's sole elected office were two Senate terms which by all accounts were just handed to her on a silver platter, so to speak.

I find it improper given that she is so "financial-industry friendly" - that that happened. It doesn't pass the smell test.

She should have had to run for whatever, in Arkansas, not New York. Sure, she had moved to NY the year before but people don't just become a Senator a year after moving to a state.

Not from an important state like NY.

Even if they HAD grown up there, which she had not.

[MrMickeysMom]

10. For sure... I have more right to call NY my home state...

I lived there from infancy until age 12! Technically, I'm a New Jersey-ite! Then, I moved to FL for 30 years, TX for 3 and now, PA for 18...

I think her home state should be Illinois in one of those neighborhoods featured in so many of those John Hughes movies!

[Baobab]

15. She spent most of her lawyerly life in Arkansas, home of Walmart

ARKANSAS is not NEW YORK

[fourcents]

11. accuracy = "Democratic Progressive Caucus"

[Baobab]

7. The ACA was written by Liz Fowler - Wellpoint VP and former member of Sen Baucus's staff

I thought that was generally known? (The authorship of the ACA)


The biggest problem with the ACA is adverse selection, because sick people cost more money to cover, and healthy people are the fastest to go without insurance when costs rise, so they bail in higher numbers when the costs increase, while sick people stay as long as they can. It has many problems, obviously.

[fourcents]

14. The ACA was expanded Because of Senator Sanders.

[Baobab]

16. Its a success at continuing the exclusion of millions

of people from health care.

[hopemountain]

3. today, nina turner ran down part of this

list in response to an attack from barney frank dissing bernie as having never accomplished anything (seriously!) on o'donnel's show.

she shined! i would send her a dozen yellow roses if i could. she is fighting the fight for bernie and for all of us.

another shinning moment today: rosario dawson being interviewed by amy goodman for democracy now after last night's brooklyn rally. and when rosario rejected the line of thinking amy put forth by asking whether bernie is the electable candidate in the general - rosario answered with a huge, bright shinning light of truth.

all of bernie's surrogates are working damn hard and damn proud - but not just for bernie - for all of us!

[greymouse]

12. Barnie Frank is in no position to be dissing anybody.

Talk about someone with bad judgement.

[hopemountain]

13. yes! he might

actually want to humble himself a bit. pompous comes to mind.

[Baobab]

17. I like Nina Turner and I hope she continues to bring these issues out.

She shows how many people have never been able to speak up and tell the real truth until now.

let the cards fall where they may. We have a horrible legacy of dishonesty and murder in the world which we need to put behind us all for good.

[ReasonableToo]

4. Kick!

He's the candidate we need!

[disillusioned73]

5. K&R..

Needs to be spread far & wide..

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. PLUS...THIS Op-Ed piece about his days as Burlington's Mayor. This will give you a good sense to the

Kind of President he will be. This is looooong, but an excellent, excellent MUST read!

Bernie Sanders: The Mayor of Prosperity and his Model for Rebuilding America
By Elizabeth Balcar (about the author)

September 7, 2015 at 23:26:07

How would a Bernie Sanders presidency revitalize America?

His mayoral legacy in Burlington, VT, offers a host of clues. In the 1980's, Bernie's visionary leadership transformed that city from a stagnant economic and cultural backwater into an economically vibrant and culturally dynamic community.

I watched him do it.

When I moved there in 1979, Vermont's Queen City seemed more like a downtrodden chambermaid.

The urban renewal craze struck Burlington in the 1960's. By the time the bulldozers finished leveling a 27-acre ethnic neighborhood between the downtown and the waterfront, the homes for 157 families, 67 individuals and 47 businesses were gone. The void left by the loss of this neighborhood contributed to a stagnant aura that enveloped the city and bore silent witness to the empty promises of affordable housing made by the city fathers and their developer-accomplices.

<snip>
By the time Bernie Sanders left office in 1989, the city was thriving.<snip>

http://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Bernie-Sanders-The-Mayor-by-Elizabeth-Balcar-Bernie-Sanders_Bernie-Sanders-2016-Presidential-Candidate_Prosperity-150907-934.html

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