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Bernie Sanders to revert to independent for rest of Senate term
Market Watch ^ | 7/26/16 | Peter Nicholas

Posted on 07/27/2016 2:33:00 PM PDT by randita

Bernie Sanders said he plans to return to the Senate as an independent, despite winning 13 million votes in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary contest.

“I was elected as an independent; I’ll stay two years more as an independent,” Sanders said.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Politics breakfast on Tuesday, Sanders also said the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee doesn’t go far enough in fixing the situation and that more staff members need to leave following embarrassing disclosures of thousands of internal emails.

“We need a DNC which has as very different direction,” he said. “I honestly don’t know many of the people there. But my guess is we’re going to need new leadership, a new direction and new personnel.”

Asked after the event whether Sanders considers himself a Democrat or an independent, a campaign aide said, “He ran for president as a Democrat but was elected to a six-year term in the Senate as an independent.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: independent; sanders
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He played his role in rigging the primary. Now he can go back to business as usual.
1 posted on 07/27/2016 2:33:00 PM PDT by randita
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To: randita

Good Lord. Switch to Socialist, Bernie. You’re big on truth in advertising.


2 posted on 07/27/2016 2:33:51 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: randita

Flipping the bird at the DNC on his way out of the building . . .


3 posted on 07/27/2016 2:34:59 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: randita

The Ascension of Bernie.


4 posted on 07/27/2016 2:35:32 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: randita

He was in on it.


5 posted on 07/27/2016 2:37:07 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~First woman nominated to be Prez, Valerie Jarrett, not Hillary.)
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To: randita

Bernie is spineless. He showed it with BLM. He showed it with Hillary and the DNC. What a sorry state of affairs that so many young people (and some older ones, too) would have liked to have seen this spineless wonder as our president. That would have sent some fear through our enemies.


6 posted on 07/27/2016 2:37:53 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: randita

Yeah independent from honesty and integrity.


7 posted on 07/27/2016 2:37:55 PM PDT by Lent
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To: colorado tanker

After the Clinton’s and DNC paid him off, of course....


8 posted on 07/27/2016 2:38:43 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Is he still going to get the plane from the DNC he asked for to campaign for Hillary?

He will probably get a prop plane like a Foker...


9 posted on 07/27/2016 2:39:12 PM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: randita

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Clinton rigged the system - NOT Bernie.


10 posted on 07/27/2016 2:40:53 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Diversity" was never THE goal. Diversity was a byproduct of people coming 'yearning to be free'.)
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To: randita

He has quite a racket going there.


11 posted on 07/27/2016 2:41:37 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Good Lord. Switch to Socialist, Bernie. You’re big on truth in advertising.

Or maybe the democrat party should just switch their name to Socialist party.


12 posted on 07/27/2016 2:42:36 PM PDT by boycott (--s)
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When push comes to shove...the guy really is a gutless turd.

13 posted on 07/27/2016 2:44:01 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: randita

Why isn’t The Bern going to Venezuela to get Socialism to work properly?


14 posted on 07/27/2016 2:48:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: Lent

Winner! U get the chik-fil-A dinner! U have to pay though ;-(


15 posted on 07/27/2016 2:50:39 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: colorado tanker

Yes, that is how I take it.


16 posted on 07/27/2016 2:50:45 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Her adipose is serious body armour?


17 posted on 07/27/2016 2:52:01 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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To: randita

Commie, commie, who wants the commie!? Nobody? OK, “Independent,” then.


18 posted on 07/27/2016 2:52:15 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: randita

Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz will be equally popular in the US Senate.


19 posted on 07/27/2016 2:55:06 PM PDT by grania
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And “Independent” who ALWAYS votes with the democrats...

What a joke.

Time to retire and move to Albania old man.


20 posted on 07/27/2016 2:57:38 PM PDT by JPJones ( You can't help the working class by paying the non-working class.)
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