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Jason Haddix
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Bernie Sanders fought a yearlong battle with city aldermen, during which he decimated local Democratic Party power while strengthening Republicans. In the end, he placed his own partisans on the board and elsewhere — in case you’re wondering how he’d govern. #VettingBernie
You might remember Franco from when he ran for Lt. Governor.
Before losing, this is how he sounded:
This editorial points out the shadier parts of Bernie’s administration. One of the councils this mentions was run by Jane Driscoll at the time. Source: newspapers.com/image/20069581…
More about that here:
Flashback:
He gave them very official sounding titles and duties. Source: newspapers.com/image/20069973…
Let me just spoil the ending for everyone:
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Jason Haddix
@doctor_eon
“If he spent as much time talking to the Board of Aldermen as he did holding news conferences, relationships would be better.”

Bernie really is consistent, isn’t he? #VettingBernie
Source: newspapers.com/image/20053827…
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Jason Haddix
@doctor_eon
I’m still watching videos from the 80s & 90s, but now this has piqued my interest. It’s fascinating how often Bernie uses the same arguments against his opponents.
I’ve talked about this before, because it’s so interesting to me. His speeches and debates are all the same, he just changes the names and sometimes percentages he uses in his examples.
Anyway, here’s the link to the full debate with Tarrant: c-span.org/video/?195068-…
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Jason Haddix
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Decided to skip ahead to 1985 for a while. #VettingBernie
This is the reason I started looking through these old newspapers in the first place.
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Dog Hand
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Hey just a quick public service announcement.

Making the 2020 comversation about the online behavior of a candidates supporters mostly serves to move the conversation about bigger issues like policy and fitness for office.

#BERNIE THREAD /1
At the risk of sounding condescending I feel like there are 4 things we should ask in this primary.

1. What are your policies ?

2. Are you proposing them in good faith?

3. Will you be effective in implimenting them?

4. are you fit for office?

This needs unpacking...

.../2
So the hardest questions are 2-4.

Whether a politician is seen as operating in good faith is often tied to whether we think a politician is "authentic."

This shit is huuuuuuugely sexist and priveledges men over women.

/3
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Victoria Brownworth
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I have a few things to say about this piece that just dropped...

Why the #Bernie Movement Must Crush #BetoORourke
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
The insistence by white male writers that there is a two-white-man race out there between Bernie & Beto is so deeply, stunningly misogynist, it takes my breath away.

How is it POSSIBLE that these folks missed the blue wave which was fundamentally female--driven by women voters?
Not just driven by women voters, but driven by women candidates. Left-leaning women candidates, including WOC who ousted long-time older white male incumbents like....Bernie Sanders.

How is anyone missing this fact?
It's a major reason why Sanders' numbers have plummeted.
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#WomenStandUnited🗽
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Which we have been screaming since 2016.

I did an entire thread to the Manafort - Devine connection.

It was recently revealed that Devine was sharing polling data with Manafort during the primary. They are all in this together & the media ignores it purposely.
@MaddowBlog why?
1/ After it was revealed on @maddow that Manafort/Russia was working as far back as 2012 to smear Hillary Clinton it made more sense.

Think about this. Who was going to primary against Pres Obama in 2012? Bernie Sanders
2/ Why didn't #Sanders follow through? My opinion based on the timeline of events & the extensive research I have done on #TadDevine, is that Sanders was told to hold off until 2016 by Devine. We know that Devine was working with #Manafort on the Ukraine election during this time
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☇RiotWomenn☇
@riotwomennn
Bernie Sanders's chief strategist was Manafort's partner in Ukraine & together they elected Putin's candidate through a lock her up campaign

Yet, when Bernie Sanders is on cable shows, no one asks him about Devine who is mentioned in Mueller's exhibit list for the Manafort case?
Democrats are united. Yet Bernie & his ilk continue to disrupt.

The Devine-Manafort connection

Bernie voted against Russian sanctions

Indictments say Russia helped Bernie

Bernie kept attacking Clinton long after he was eliminated

Bernie's surrogates spread the Kremlin lies
Ari: Did you know then that Russia was leaking emails to further divide the Dems?

Sanders: Of course we knew.

But you never said that ... you used their crimes to defame Clinton & elevate your campaign

You watched your surrogates go over to Stein & 🙊

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BernieBro Kavn:#Bernie2020🔥 will #FreeAngryBerner
@kavn
To that point. it is also, IMHO, about Character and Leadership ...
🔸about the ability to achieve those same policies
🔸the fight in the person
🔸the aptitude for achieving within a group
I may not be saying this very well, but these things matter.
Really?!!
[I'm going to bring this back into the convo thread]

So .. REALLY ?! Come on now. Here's a little of what #Bernie achieved as an Indie in Congress DURING that period..
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☂️skyfish☂️
@skyfishgoo
allow me to explain:

first thing to realize is that compromise usually involved splitting the difference (e.g. arbitration -- if you've ever been privy, you know exactly what i mean).

next you need to understate that starting positions matter
now we come to the republicans..

they know to start out WAY to the right of anything sane

democrats, being slightly more reasonable tend to open with somthing they thing will win the other side over to their POV.

... it ... will ... not ....

so this happens.
after a few years of this (say since 1980) you end up with both parties being FAR to the right of anything that a rational person would consider CENTER

enter #bernie sanders and his populist, moderate policy positions like #medicareforall or raising the minimum wage
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