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The Secret of Bernie's Millions
Politico Magazine ^ | May 24,2019 | Michael Kruse

Posted on 05/27/2019 9:39:44 PM PDT by OddLane

Early on in his eight years as the mayor of this city, when he typically dressed in a tieless ensemble of work boots and corduroys, Bernie Sanders one day left City Hall and found a ticket on the windshield of his rusty Volkswagen Dasher. The offense: This was the mayor’s spot, and, surely, a cop had thought, this was not the mayor’s car.

But it was. It matched perfectly with both Sanders’ image as a scrappy advocate of the little guy and his own shaky financial reality. It was the beginning of the 1980s, and he was approaching 40, a single father of a not-quite-teenage son, renting a sparse second-floor apartment and having a hard time keeping up with his bills...

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: berniebio; berniesanders; incometaxes; michaelkruse; newyork; ocasiocortez; politico; pollutico; taxcutsandjobsact; taxreform; tcja; vermont

1 posted on 05/27/2019 9:39:44 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

The life of a guy who never got a job.


2 posted on 05/27/2019 9:46:43 PM PDT by Track9 (I mess up the bell curve.)
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To: Track9

How lazy do you have to be to get kicked out of a hippie commune...in Vermont?!


3 posted on 05/27/2019 9:47:13 PM PDT by OddLane
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To: OddLane

What a fake.


4 posted on 05/27/2019 9:48:05 PM PDT by Maudeen (Remember . . . Jesus is already in all of your tomorrows.)
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To: OddLane

Like most Democrat politicians, he probably sold the power of his office to lobbyists. It used to be that politicians who made more than their paychecks were called corrupt and were investigated.


5 posted on 05/27/2019 9:52:47 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: OddLane

That’s some lazy. Probably a complete bore with all his recycled commi drivel.


6 posted on 05/27/2019 9:54:23 PM PDT by Track9 (I mess up the bell curve.)
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To: OddLane

I’m guessing it’s the same secret an endless list of shysters have found.


7 posted on 05/27/2019 10:15:23 PM PDT by avenir
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Well his wife managed to bankrupt Vermont College. A lot of money is missing there


8 posted on 05/27/2019 11:29:37 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: OddLane
So Bernie was a Sozialist mayor. Then a Sozialist Senator. And now he wants to take his Sozialism National.

If he fails to capture the Dem nomination yet again, he can run as a third party, called the Nazionalsozialistische Worker's Party. Has a nice ring to it, dontcha think?

And speaking of historical parallels, there's been no letup in spreading the msm's BIG LIE since the Mueller Report, no decrease in their on-air rants about how the Trump Criminals stole the November '16 election.

This isn't the first time someone's gained political power thru incessant repetition of a Big Lie about the "November Criminals" - ranting with their voices practically screaming, their faces crimson, their eyes bulging and spittle spewing forth from their mouths.

9 posted on 05/28/2019 12:20:29 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: OddLane

bkmk


10 posted on 05/28/2019 1:23:25 AM PDT by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: OddLane

If he was as poor as he said he was, how the hell does he end up going to the University of Chicago?


11 posted on 05/28/2019 2:01:19 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: OddLane

Socialism on parade....once you are a LEADER of it, you are RICH! The other slobs are destitute, but the LEADERS are RICH!


12 posted on 05/28/2019 2:23:38 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

WHEN and in WHAT MYTHICAL KINGDOM did these investigations happen.

I’ve NEVER seen nor heard nor read of mass investigations based on this.

Let’s not relive histories that never existed :)


13 posted on 05/28/2019 3:08:15 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

It was a long time long ago, and far away. Still in this galaxy, but I think dragons roamed the earth, and we knew how to deal with them. Many battles were won and lost, and many knights slain until we defeated them. They weren’t defeated forever, however. There was this girl named something or other, I don’t remember. I still recall it. Evil is never truly defeated until God says it is.


14 posted on 05/28/2019 4:02:35 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: OddLane

He’s a lazy-ass, and I’d hate to see what his kitchen/bathrooms look like.


15 posted on 05/28/2019 4:18:10 AM PDT by BadLands59
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To: OddLane

Bernie was in fact kicked out of a kibbutz (commune) in Israel for laziness. Not Vermont.


16 posted on 05/28/2019 4:56:46 AM PDT by golux
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Amen!! :)


17 posted on 05/28/2019 7:43:44 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: OddLane

The purchase of his third home came suspiciously after his nomination loss to Hillary. I am wondering if some of his new found wealth came from tne Clinton’s sleazy coffers as a payoff for quietly dropping out of the nomination race in 2016.


18 posted on 05/28/2019 10:43:16 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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To: The Great RJ
From deep in the article: “In 2016, though, book money began to pile up. He got a $795,000 advance to write Our Revolution. He pocketed an additional $70,484 in royalties. In 2017, the book royalties added up to $880,091.14. And last year, while they dipped, they still were a hunk of money: $392,810.37.”

These book deals are a favorite way for libs to transfer payola, in this case $2 million.

19 posted on 05/28/2019 5:46:12 PM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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