Nurses union vows to continue backing Bernie Sanders

[n2doc]

By Matea Gold and John Wagner

A super PAC financed by the country’s largest nurses union has spent more than $610,000 on behalf of Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid, including $41,000 on new billboards touting him in the early caucus states of Iowa and Nevada, according to expenditure reports filed Monday.

Union officials said they plan to continue spending through the political action committee, National Nurses United for Patient Protection -- even though Sanders has repeatedly denounced the influence of super PACs and has insisted that he doesn’t have one flanking his upstart campaign.

“We never considered it a super PAC,” said Jean Ross, co-president of the nurses union. “This isn’t a corporation or an individual who can write out millions of dollars at a time. This is money that nurses put out for things that they believe in.”

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[Hiraeth]

1. Nurses know who has their back. Nurses see firsthand the unmitigated waste in the health

industry and Yes, it is an industry .... that should focus on quality of life no matter the stage.

[jkbRN]

3. YES, you stated that perfectly!

[Hiraeth]

5. Thanks!

You know.

[jkbRN]

2. Makes me proud to be a nurse,

we never stop fighting!

[SoapBox]

4. Ha! I saw some outrage that they had spent money on

Debate Bingo Cards!

Ohhhhh....the Humanity!

[merrily]

6. Surgeons cut and prescribe; nurses nurture and heal.

That is my assessment after having had life-saving emergency surgery.

I can never repay my debt to nurses, but I can support them and their union, whether or not they support Sanders. That they support Sanders only increases my respect for how much they care--and I didn't even think that was possible.