Bernie Sanders fights for working families: Sen. Don Riegle

[Uncle Joe]

To defeat President Donald Trump, we need a candidate who can win back places like the Upper Midwest. Having been born in Flint, Michigan, and having represented the region in the House and Senate as both a Republican and a Democrat, I am confident Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is our strongest candidate to defeat Trump. Polls show Sanders is running strong nationally and in states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. That is because working families know Sanders is on their side.

(snip)

Sanders has pointed out that the three richest families in America now have more combined wealth than the entire bottom 50% of Americans, 160million people. It is Robin Hood in reverse — the superrich accumulating national wealth, draining the lifeblood out of the working poor and destabilizing America. That is why Sanders is fighting to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour and to expand Social Security benefits.

(snip)

Sanders has catalyzed the kind of movement we will need to defeat Trump. It is a grassroots uprising in both urban and rural areas, among people of all ages, races, ethnicities and political affiliations.

This movement understands that if Sanders is nominated and elected, it will be a new day. With President Sanders, the rule of law will be reestablished, and we will finally be on a path to a future of economic, social, racial and environmental justice.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/03/sen-don-riegle-endorses-bernie-sanders-president-democratic-primary-column/4939528002/

[RandySF]

1. A member of the Keating Five.

So badly damaged by the scandal that he retiring 1994 and was replaced by a Republican.

[Uncle Joe]

4. I wonder

if Don is a super-delegate?

[LanternWaste]

5. Tough old world when you're unable to find out on your own.

[George II]

2. FORMER Senator Don Riegle and FORMER REPUBLICAN Don Riegle.

[Uncle Joe]

3. You forgot this part.

(snip)

To defeat President Donald Trump, we need a candidate who can win back places like the Upper Midwest. Having been born in Flint, Michigan, and having represented the region in the House and Senate as both a Republican and a Democrat, I am confident Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is our strongest candidate to defeat Trump. Polls show Sanders is running strong nationally and in states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. That is because working families know Sanders is on their side.

(snip)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/03/03/sen-don-riegle-endorses-bernie-sanders-president-democratic-primary-column/4939528002/

[LanternWaste]

6. Much as you forgot this part... Keating Five

(I get it... we have to reach for the bottom of the barrel if that's all we have left)

[George II]

7. I didn't forget that, but Riegle has been out of office for 25 years. I think endorsements from....

....CURRENT Upper Midwest office holders are more persuasive. At this point, the current Mayor of Detroit has more political clout (he endorsed Biden last year), and the five Michigan State Representatives who have endorsed Biden have more clout, and current Senator Amy Klobuchar has more clout, as probably former Mayor Pete Buttigieg does too.

[Mersky]

8. And Democrats take care of poor people

Is a refrain I still hear from elders in Texas. Just listen to Biden’s speeches to unions and you’ll get how this is true for working families.

Democrats are better at running the economy, too. If Bush v. Gore hadn’t gone down the way it did, maybe banking regulators under a Democratic administration would have reigned things in. Maybe under such, republicans would have placed more value on green energy, rather than insisting on digging around in the dirt for coal and a past that never existed. Then Obama wouldn’t have had to cleanup the recession created under dubya AND push for solar/Paris accords so late. If Texas wasn’t further gerrymandered to hell in 2012, then maybe the state would have expanded Medicaid, and my friend would have lived to his 34th birthday, and not died in the gap.

It’s simply more complex than one candidate’s proposed solutions that lump sliding middle class families like mine in with billionaire-elite-class-establishment speak. I see organized labor as a natural thing to occur in a free market system, and if you think Biden’s speeches to unions are for billionaire donors, then I don’t know what else I could say to dispel these cruddy notions of Democrats as being some sort of republicon-lite establishment party that doesn’t care about workers.

[LizBeth]

9. All our Democrats and Democrats in blue states are fighting for our working families.