{"id":178162,"date":"2019-02-19T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/19\/bernie-is-in-the-house\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T01:46:00","slug":"bernie-is-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/02\/19\/bernie-is-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie is in the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s7DRwz0cAt0\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>You had me at, &#8220;I&#8221;<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Bernie Sanders has made it official, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vpr.org\/post\/hes-2020-bernie-sanders-running-president-again#stream\/0\">he is running for President again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sen. Bernie Sanders has confirmed to VPR that he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. <\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s7DRwz0cAt0\">official announcement video<\/a> was posted online Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about this first,&#8221; Sanders told VPR&#8217;s Bob Kinzel. &#8220;And what I promise to do is, as I go around the country, is to take the values that all of us in Vermont are proud of \u2014 a belief in justice, in community, in grassroots politics, in town meetings \u2014 that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to carry all over this country.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sanders said he is running to oppose President Donald Trump, and to enact many of the progressive ideas \u2014 including universal health care coverage, a $15 minimum wage and reducing student debt \u2014 that he championed in 2016. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment to our country,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;I think he is a pathological liar&#8230; I also think he is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a xenophobe, somebody who is gaining cheap political points by trying to pick on minorities, often undocumented immigrants.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Sanders said his campaign hopes to enlist one million people in a &#8220;grassroots movement of people prepared to stand up and fight.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s already done pretty good on the whole, &#8220;Grassroots Movement,&#8221; thing, as is indicated in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/bernie-sanders-bests-kamala-harris-first-day-donor-total-in-four-hours\">blowing past Kamala Harris\u2019 first day total in only 4 hours<\/a>.  (Harris&#8217; fund raising had the pundits in paroxysms of amazement)<\/p>\n<p>Also, this time around, it looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/bernie-sanders-hires-top-civil-liberties-advocate-faiz-shakir-as-campaign-manager\">his campaign staff will be a lot more professionally savvy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/bernie-sanders-announces-he-will-run-for-president-again\">Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> (I-VT) has tapped Faiz Shakir to serve as his campaign manager for his second run at the White House, The Daily Beast has learned. <\/p>\n<p>In hiring Shakir, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/bernie-sanders-bests-kamala-harris-first-day-donor-total-in-four-hours\">Sanders<\/a> brings into the fold one of the Democratic Party\u2019s better-traveled operatives\u2014an official with limited campaign experience but with ties to the party\u2019s think tank infrastructure, its Hill operations, and the larger progressive universe.<\/p>\n<p>Shakir joins the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/bernie-sanders\">Sanders<\/a> operation from the American Civil Liberties Union where he served as national political director since early 2017. Before joining the ACLU, he was a senior adviser to then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and before that he worked with House Democratic Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/keyword\/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-CA). He first made a name for himself as an editor at the website ThinkProgress, the news arm associated with, though editorially independent of, the powerhouse Democratic think-tank Center for American Progress.  <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully, Shakir will let Bernie be Bernie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You had me at, &#8220;I&#8221; Bernie Sanders has made it official, he is running for President again: Sen. Bernie Sanders has confirmed to VPR that he is seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. His official announcement video was posted online Tuesday morning. &#8220;I wanted to let the people of the state of Vermont know about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[615,405,401],"class_list":["post-178162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}