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Sanders in Chicago today, will meet with Jesse Jackson
Source: WGN
CHICAGO – Bernie Sanders is holding a press conference at the Hyatt downtown this morning.
He’s talking about the differences he has with Hillary Clinton, before Illinois voters head to the polls on Tuesday.
He’ll also sit down with Jesse Jackson in a Rainbow/Push Coalition forum.
Sanders held a rally at Argo High School in Southwest suburban Summit yesterday.
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Used to be called a Kodak moment.
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Really? 
FAIL.
Spring 2009 Max Baucus becomes point man
Without Daschle and with Sen. Ted Kennedy dying of cancer, the White House turns to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.). A conservative Democrat, Baucus worked with the Bush administration on tax cuts. The view is he can bring moderate Republicans on board.
Baucus's critics raise alarms about his ties to special interests; since 2005, he had received more than $2.5 million from the special interest groups in the health industry. And according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation, five former Baucus staffers, including two former chiefs of staff, work for a total of 27 organizations with an interest in the outcome of health care reform.
In May, the Senate Finance Committee holds hearings on expanding health coverage, calling 41 witnesses. The hearings are interrupted by activists outraged over Baucus's refusal to allow advocates for a single-payer system to testify; Baucus has the activists removed from the hearing and arrested.
Read more on the single-payer option and the arrests of liberal activists in this transcript from Bill Moyers Journal.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/etc/cron.html
Without Daschle and with Sen. Ted Kennedy dying of cancer, the White House turns to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.). A conservative Democrat, Baucus worked with the Bush administration on tax cuts. The view is he can bring moderate Republicans on board.
Baucus's critics raise alarms about his ties to special interests; since 2005, he had received more than $2.5 million from the special interest groups in the health industry. And according to a report from the Sunlight Foundation, five former Baucus staffers, including two former chiefs of staff, work for a total of 27 organizations with an interest in the outcome of health care reform.
In May, the Senate Finance Committee holds hearings on expanding health coverage, calling 41 witnesses. The hearings are interrupted by activists outraged over Baucus's refusal to allow advocates for a single-payer system to testify; Baucus has the activists removed from the hearing and arrested.
Read more on the single-payer option and the arrests of liberal activists in this transcript from Bill Moyers Journal.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/obamasdeal/etc/cron.html
And it went downhill from there. In the winter of 2010, just 4 1/2 months after Ted Kennedy passed, a bunch of folks in MA decided to vote for a Republican to replace him. And that was the end of the 60 vote margin. The entire year was a lesson in the sausage-making of legislation where the media kept misrepresenting various versions that may have passed in each committee and chamber as "the bill" as if it were some final version.
Had the honor of having my picture taken with Rev. Jackson the night before we marched with him at Occupy Phoenix.
He's a really big person, I mean like pro football player type big person!
