Bernie Sanders Has a Secret
Vermont, his son and the hungry early years that made him the surging socialist he is today.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/bernie-sanders-vermont-119927.html#.VZ_Fcl9Viko
Sanders has criticized the press his entire political career.
“The question of who decides what’s important and what’s not important is really the most important issue,” he said at a forum on the media in Burlington in 1988, “and the media does not have a habit of focusing on what’s important.”
Something like that.
Briggs called me a little more than an hour after I sent my questions. He said he had talked with Sanders and had answers. He ticked them off one by one.
He told me where Sanders met and married his first wife and how the marriage ended. “She got a Mexican divorce, is what I was told,” Briggs said. He explained the origin of the money Sanders used to buy the Middlesex land and the carpentry he did on the sugar shack. He said Sanders received unemployment, “for a few months,” in 1971, though Sanders can’t remember what the job was that qualified him for the benefits. He told me where Sanders had met Mott and where they lived together. He confirmed she was the mother of Sanders’ son, in spite of previous news accounts. “Whatever has been reported,” he said, “what you have is accurate.”
The last question I had sent him was whether there was anything else he thought I should know.
“Yes,” Briggs said.
“The middle class is collapsing. Income and wealth inequality is greater now than it has been at any point since before the Great Depression. The American people are working longer hours for lower wages, and they’re angry. Those kinds of things, you should know.”
A long read but a fascinating glimpse into the man.
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Response to Autumn (Original post)
Response to gregcrawford (Reply #7)
divorced him because he was boring. 
She won oscars, that woman.
and while I sill choose to support Bernie because he's the best, I can't agree with you saying that this is "a fascinating glimpse into the man".
I hardly learned anything I didn't already know. :/
and I honestly began to wonder why he and those around him are so protective of Bernie. maybe I'm conditioned by the media to be nosey? I don't know.
I still trust Bernie, but if close people to him answer questions about him with commentary like "it's none of your fucking business"does that spur a little suspicion in anyone else?
he's still the better choice, don't get me wrong because he's right, none of that truly matters. the issues matter, the facts matter. how his family worked out or how his marriages went don't matter.
I do still want to know how he feels about pets though. I wonder if I'll ever find out. 
T_T
But working on it is nice!
background story and what made Bernie what he is today. I never watch MSNBC, I can't bring myself to watch that crap 5 minutes in I'm so mad I'm cussing up a storm. 
