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Mon Jul 31, 2017, 05:13 AM Jul 2017

A Thank You Card For Bernie Sanders Was Signed By The Adoring Passengers On His Flight

By SETH MILLSTEIN 9 hours ago

Excerpts:

On Friday, commuters on a commercial airliner spotted Sen. Bernie Sanders on the plane, and took some time to show their appreciation. According to a story posted on Reddit and later confirmed by Bustle, the passengers on the flight gave Sanders a thank-you note, passing it around the plane so anybody who wanted to sign it could. Bustle has reached out to Sanders' office to find out more behind the story.

Images of the thank-you note were posted by Jennifer Turchi, one of the passengers on the plane. Turchi told Bustle that after the commuters realized Sanders was on the plane, a group of young adults at the back of the flight wrote a thank-you note for the Senator, and passed it around the plane ("Sign if you want & keep passing forward to Bernie," a Post-It note on the paper read).

"We were stranded on the runway for over an hour headed from Reagan National airport to Burlington," Turchi told Bustle. "Someone at the back of the plane started the hand-made note and passed it forward. People could sign if they wanted to, but were asked to pass it forward. It made it all the way to the front of the plane, and then to Sen. Sanders."

Turchi added that before the flight departed, Sanders was chatting with his fellow travelers in the terminal.

"I can only imagine how tired he was," Turchi said, noting Sanders' late-night health care vote the night before, "but he was giving with his time and attention."

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https://www.bustle.com/p/a-thank-you-card-for-bernie-sanders-was-signed-by-the-adoring-passengers-on-his-flight-73477



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