Another Tid Bit

This was a great article and I especially liked how plainly she wrote this paragraph. I want to remember this election, so I'm documenting things that I think should be remembered.

‘Hurricane Bernie’ hits New York

02/03/16 06:38 PM

By Emma Margolin

[Several speakers attacked Clinton for not being sufficiently progressive over the years and seeming to shift her positions based on political expediency. Mary Fitzgerald, a pediatric nurse and member of the New York State Nurses Association, called Clinton a “Johnny-come-lately” on health care for all. Former state Sen. Tom Duane, who was the only openly gay member of the New York Senate, appeared to take a veiled swipe at Clinton’s relatively late support for marriage equality, saying “Some candidates, they have to evolve… But you know who was already there? Bernie Sanders.” Allen Roskoff, president of the Jim Owles Democratic Club, was more explicit: “She is the last prominent Democrat to support marriage equality. We have to remember who our friends are.”]

Iowa Caucus Day!

I have never been so excited to hear about what is going on in Iowa today. This is the first presidential election where I am actually FOR a candidate, not just choosing the lesser evil. Bernie Sanders was never given the media coverage he deserved in the beginning. Can you believe that even without paying for the front page of Google and Yahoo news that he is still gaining on Hillary? I love it! What do I like most about the guy? He's HONEST.... such a turn around from most politicians. In his 74 years of life, they can't scrape up anything bad on the guy, because simply put, he's just a good guy! 

"Sanders is as real as it gets. Clinton is as fake and phony and corrupt as can be. Sanders is the last surviving antithesis of the dominant US politics. Clinton is the embodiment of its deepest layers of corporate corruption." --Hamid Dabashi, Professor at Columbia University NY  

The life he and his wife have led up to this point is one of compassion and giving. As a little boy, Sanders wanted to grow up to be a social worker. How incredible is that?! And his wife Jane has an impressive background: a Ph.D., community organizer, college president, started a teen center, a day care, after school programs, and also helped Bernie draft over 50 pieces of legislation. The first week Bernie was in the Senate, he called in everybody that dealt with childcare and early education. Jane was right there by his side because that was her background. A recent article I read described how the two met and I loved it so much I want to share it.

They both landed in Burlington, Vt., he in the mid-1960s; she in 1975, where they met during his first campaign for mayor. In an interview with Vermont Business Magazine, Jane recalled: "I went with the Neighborhood Organization folks to a meeting with the then Mayor and they asked questions. I didn't feel we were getting direct answers, so I started asking questions. They said, 'You sound like Bernie Sanders now!' I sat down and said, 'Who's Bernie Sanders?' They said, 'He's running for mayor.' I said, 'Let's organize a debate.' So we did. ... [W]hen I heard him speak, well, that was it. ... We met at the victory party, and that was the beginning of forever." (Sanders went on to win that election by 10 votes.) --Carol Felsenthal, TheHill.com


Anyway, I love Bernie and Jane Sanders. I hope young people understand the importance of going out to caucus tonight. I have definitely learned the importance of voting in the Primary elections, along with the General elections.