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Sanders Says He'll Run Again: As Independent for Senate

Written by NH1 Political Unit on October 22, 2017 9:59 pm.

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ROLLINSFORD – Bernie Sanders says he’ll he run for re-election next year as an independent candidate. The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate and independent senator from Vermont made the news in an interview Sunday evening after pumping up Democratic activists packed into the American Legion hall in this town along the Maine border.

Earlier, Sanders received numerous standing ovations as he headlined a Strafford County Democratic Committee fundraising dinner. The senator highlighted his single-payer, Medicare for all plan, which he introduced in the Senate last month.

“It seems clear to me that we have one system that works well, and that’s called Medicare. Now is the time to expand Medicare for all and create a single payer health care system,” Sanders said. He said that last time he introduced the legislation “I had one co-sponsor. Me.” Then he touted that “this time around we have 16 co-sponsors.”

Asked later about his game plan to defeat the GOP tax plan, Sanders explained, “I think we go to the American people.”

He was confident that the tax plan will be defeated “just as we were able to defeat their efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act and throw some 30 million people off health insurance.”

http://www.nh1.com/news/top-news/sanders-says-he-ll-run-again-as-independent-for-senate

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Democrats reject proposal to force Bernie Sanders to join the party

By David Weigel October 20 at 11:58 AM

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The resolution, introduced by three DNC members from California, attracted attention this week as one more skirmish between supporters of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Democratic Primary and supporters of Sanders. Bob Mulholland, the DNC member who pitched the resolution to the committee, argued that Democrats were losing potential votes by letting progressive voters work outside the party.

But the negative attention on the resolution helped sink it. Terry Anderson, a DNC member from Vermont, told the committee that the language had been sprung on them without warning and didn’t reflect Sanders’s alliance with his state’s Democrats.

“It’s really troubling when you get your resolution package and you find out your state’s been named in it without any prior consultation,” said Anderson. “We’ve come to a solution that works for us, and we don’t need external voices telling us how to solve our primaries. Next year, Bernie will run for and win the Democratic primary, and he will win reelection — as an independent.”

The resolution died with a quick voice vote.

Earlier in the day, Sanders supporters scored another win by passing language officially rejecting “corporate donors that conflict with our DNC platform.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/10/20/democrats-reject-proposal-to-force-bernie-sanders-to-join-the-party/

The DNC has voted down a resolution that would have demanded Sanders and King run as Democrats

Sanders leads potential 2020 Dem candidates in NH poll

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 10/18/17 04:44 PM EDT

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) leads a field of potential Democratic presidential contenders for the 2020 New Hampshire primary, according to a new poll of likely Democratic voters.

A University of New Hampshire poll released Wednesday shows Sanders with 31 percent support in a hypothetical matchup against other potential 2020 challengers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Vice President Joe Biden.



http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/356098-sanders-leads-new-hampshire-poll-of-possible-2020-dem

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Film Festival: The Night When Bernie Was President

Culture Desk

By William Brennan
7:00 A.M.


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On a recent evening, about two dozen Bernie Sanders supporters and assorted bons vivants crammed into the World Money Gallery, a boxcar-size events space on Montrose Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The occasion was the President Sanders Film Festival, at which four films would be shown. The gallery’s walls were decorated with glittery paintings of Sanders. “Better With Bernie—Baruch Hashem,” one read. Red and blue balloons floated at the ceiling, election-party-style; above the drinks table hung a large banner advertising “Bernie Sandwiches.” Amanda Mercado and Zachary Darvish, the festival’s organizers, stood beneath it, greeting people as they arrived. When attendees crossed the threshold, Mercado explained, they were stepping into an alternate universe, “where Bernie Sanders is President of the United States.”

The gallery lights dimmed, a projector whirred, and the first of the four films—titled, simply, “Bernie 2020”—appeared on the back wall. Its creator, a video artist named Raúl Andrés, is on a mission to get Sanders elected next time by posting “beautiful and compelling Bernie 2020 ads” on social media. His two short videos combined inspirational campaign-trail quotes with footage of the senator barnstorming the country. U2’s “Magnificent” thumped in the background. One of the films ended with an encouragement to use the hashtag #Bernie2020. Several people clapped.

The evening’s second film was “2016 Election,” by Brian Hanley, a Brooklyn-based video journalist. In a two-and-a-half-minute cartoon set to an original rap, Hanley touted Sanders’s reliance on small donors, his votes against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, and his desire to break up the big banks and legalize marijuana. “A democratic socialist is the remedy, and Donald Trump is the fucking enemy,” Hanley concluded, cutting to a shot of Sanders’s Presidential portrait hanging beside Barack Obama’s. Hanley had phone-banked for the campaign and, in April, 2016, rode around Grand Central on a longboard with a megaphone reminding passersby of the date of the New York primary. “2016 Election” was also part of those efforts: Hanley made the cartoon early in the primaries; with about four hundred thousand views, it had gone modestly viral. Now, he said, he was considering getting a Sanders quote tattooed on his arm: “Never, ever lose your sense of outrage.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-night-when-bernie-was-president


The President Sanders Film Festival, in Williamsburg, was for movies that imagined a world in which Bernie won. But the event didn’t quite turn out that way.Photograph by Ralph Freso / Getty