I know this and have
been writing this for a year now,
he knows this,
the Republican Party knows
this
and
Vermont knows this!
Independent,
Socialist, Liberty Union Party,
Sanders has always had a bone to pick with both
major parties.
Because.
Bernie Sanders, like
his Idol,
has been keeping secrets
from the American Public!
Unsuccessful
independent candidate for election to
the United States Senate in 1972 and
1974;
Unsuccessful
independent candidate for election for
governor of Vermont in 1972, 1976 and
1986; mayor of Burlington, Vt., 1981-1989;
Unsuccessful
independent candidate to
the One Hundred First Congress in 1988;
Bernie Sanders plan
from the very beginning of the year
and
for that matter from the past elections
back when the since the 1980's.
In his first two
years in office as mayor,
the City Council refused to allow Sanders
to hire
more than a handful of staff,
while the entrenched
bureaucrats in City Hall sought to thwart his initiatives.
Randy Kamerbeek, the
city’s planning director,
“tried to sabotage
everything that Bernie proposed,”
recalled Michael
Monte, who worked in that agency.
“He told us not to
allow Bernie to have any visible successes.
He figured Bernie
would be out of office after his first term.”
Upon returning to
the United States, Sanders moved to Vermont,
participating in the communal
back-to-the-land movement and working as a union carpenter and freelance
journalist.
He
also became active in
which drew him into
electoral politics.
Running as an
Independent,
he made several
unsuccessful bids
for governor of
Vermont (1972, 1976, and 1986)
and the U.S. Senate
(1972 and 1974).
In 1981 he ran for
the mayor-ship of Burlington, where he had settled.
He won by a handful
of votes.
Soon thereafter
Sanders (who was divorced) met Jane O’Meara Driscoll,
who had three
children from a previous marriage;
after a seven-year
courtship, the couple married and later had a son.
In the summer of
1963,
he was found guilty
of resisting arrest
during a demonstration
against segregation
in Chicago's public schools
and was fined $25.
Three other
Democratic senators,
Sen. Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.),
Sen. Bob Menendez
(D-N.J.),
and
Sen. Jon Tester
(Mont.)
have not made
endorsements.
Sen. Angus King
(I-Maine)
has also not
endorsed anyone.