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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Ally Trying Again To Unseat Debbie Wasserman Schultz
(JTA) — A law professor and Bernie Sanders backer will try again to unseat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Florida’s safely Democratic 23rd Congressional District. Tim Canova announced Thursday that he will launch a primary challenge to Wasserman Schultz, the former head of the Democratic National Committee. Last August, Wasserman Schultz defeated Canova 57-43 in the primary, despite the…
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Fast Forward Scalise Shooter Was Passionate Bernie Sanders Supporter And Volunteer
As details have begun to emerge from this morning’s shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise and several others in Alexandria, Virginia it’s been revealed that the shooter, James Hodgkinson, was an avowed supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. He also volunteered for the Sanders campaign in Illinois. In the last year, Hodgkinson had made several…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Mocks GOP For Secret Health Care Bill
Senate Democrats are furious at the news that the GOP will decline to release the details of their health care bill, which they hope to pass before the July 4th recess. Senator Chuck Schumer suggested that the Republicans were “ashamed” of the bill; “We have no idea what’s being proposed,” said Senator Claire McCaskill. “There’s…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Rallies Left At ‘Peoples Summit’ To Confront Trump — And Democrats
Buoyed by the British Labour Party election gains this week, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday urged a summit of progressive activists who propelled his presidential candidacy to ramp up efforts to win elections and help remake a Democratic Party he deemed a failure. “They won those seats by standing up to the ruling class,”…
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Fast Forward Bernie Dislikes A Central Tenet Of Christianity And Will Vote Accordingly
The normally staid Senate Budget Committee became quite tense on Wednesday when Senator Bernie Sanders lit into an executive branch nominee for writings that he perceived as privileging Christianity over other faiths. Russell Vought, whom President Trump nominated to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in the evangelical blog The…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Made $2,521 In Royalties From That 1987 Folk Album Last Year
Bernie Sanders – unlike SOME people – released his 2016 personal finance details on Sunday and the folk singer-cum-politician is doing just fine. Sanders received a $795,000 advance for his book “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.” That’s twice the size of the advance that Sen. Al Franken received for his recent release, even…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Tells Israeli Leftists: ‘Occupation Must End’
(JTA) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Jewish former presidential candidate, said “the occupation must end” in a video message to the Israeli left-wing opposition Meretz Party. The five-minute video was set to be screened at a conference on Sunday marking the end of the Six-Day War in 1967 and “50 years of Occupation.” In…
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Fast Forward Bernie Sanders Has Just Three Words For Trump’s Healthcare Plan
Senator Bernie Sanders has just three words for President Trump’s proposed replacement for Obamacare: What a disgrace. — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 24, 2017 The senator tweeted his statement on Wednesday just moments after the Congressional Budget Office revealed that the American Health Care Act, which would undo much of Obama’s Affordable Care Act legislation,…
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