I’m no fan of Sanders. But my problem with this article is that it skips over the time he was Mayor of Burlington. By all accounts, he did a pretty good job there. I guess he was a late bloomer.
When one becomes amyor of anywhere.....the apparatus is already in place, and functions on it’s own. There really isn’t a whole lot of work required to keep your hand on the tiller and steer it. If you don’t rock the boat, you can do 8 years and come out smelling like a rose.
Were Burlington, Detroit in crisis, I doubt that Bernie had the skills necessary to stop the ship from sinking.