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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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To: JPJones

Special report: Sanders campaign millions go to mystery firm

http://vtdigger.org/2016/07/15/sanders-campaign-millions-go-to-mystery-firm/


21 posted on 07/27/2016 3:03:08 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: randita

He never did mention that removal of the depression era banking safe guards put in place by FDR, were Bill Clinton’s doing.


22 posted on 07/27/2016 3:11:46 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: randita

And yet he always votes with the democrats. Such an establishment liar.


23 posted on 07/27/2016 3:20:41 PM PDT by funfan
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To: funfan

Exactly...meaningless gesture


24 posted on 07/27/2016 3:25:27 PM PDT by xp38
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To: randita

An Independent COMMIE HE HE


25 posted on 07/27/2016 4:27:55 PM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (MECCA and Medina, the SNAKE HEAD..)
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