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The Socialist Senator

January 24, 2007 – 10:53 am

This is from a long piece in the New York Times Magazine, entitled, The Socialist Senator: ["Vermont Senator Bernie] Sanders has always been an easier fit in Vermont than in Washington. Being a Socialist in the seat of two-party orthodoxy will do that. While he has generally championed liberal Democratic positions over the years — [...]

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Paying for Volunteers

April 17, 2006 – 11:56 am

An editorial in the Brattleboro Reformer says that, while it is rare in Vermont politics for any candidate for statewide office to have to buy their volunteers, that hasn’t stopped the Senate candidate for the Republican party from offering $3,000 and a laptop computer to students who “volunteer” for his campaign this summer. If he [...]

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An Open Letter to Congressman Bernie Sanders

April 6, 2006 – 04:21 pm

The NY Tmes is reporting today that “President Bush authorized Vice President Dick Cheney in July 2003 to permit Mr. Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., to leak to a reporter key portions of a classified prewar intelligence estimate on Iraq, according to Mr. Libby’s grand jury testimony disclosed in court papers filed [...]

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