He's a sellout and always has been. He just got away with platituding suckers for along time.
Posted on 10/20/2016 10:21:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Saying that consuming too much sugar is a serious health problem, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders told the soft drink industry to stop using his name in ads fighting proposed soda taxes in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Vermont senator said in a statement Thursday that campaign commercials and mailers implying that he opposes soda tax measures on the Nov. 8 ballot in San Francisco and Oakland are false.
Neighboring Albany also has a penny-per-ounce tax measure on its ballot. …
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You mean pop?
Why would they use his name. I would think good ole Bernie loves to tax the peasants who dare drink that evil fattening soda.
So it’s come to this - from being a presidential candidate to fussing over sugar in soft drinks.
If only we’d seen the same fall in Lenin, Marx, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, and Ho - and, for that matter, hillary.
“Don’t use my name unless the bill is written to provide me with perpetual endorsement royalties. Then, maybe we got something to talk about.”
He's a sellout and always has been. He just got away with platituding suckers for along time.
He turned into a surrender monkey prettybquick, didn’t he? Guess that private meeting in the political woodshed with the Obamabastard was frightening.
That pretty much sums up Bernie. Well, we knew he was kooky. But easily bought with Clinton Cash.
They came after the Soda Tax, I didn't care, I don't drink soda.
Then they came after the Cigarette Tax, I didn't care, I don't smoke.
They came after the Obamacare Tax, I didn't care, I am healthy.
Then they came after the “Me” Tax, by then I was imprisoned in the Democrat Ghetto Plantation.
None of those type ever say what’s really on their mind.
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