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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Special report: Sanders campaign millions go to mystery firm
http://vtdigger.org/2016/07/15/sanders-campaign-millions-go-to-mystery-firm/
He never did mention that removal of the depression era banking safe guards put in place by FDR, were Bill Clinton’s doing.
And yet he always votes with the democrats. Such an establishment liar.
Exactly...meaningless gesture
An Independent COMMIE HE HE
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