Who Is Bernie Sanders?
Who Is?
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4.1 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sen. Bernie Sanders is America’s most prominent self-described democratic socialist, and he’s running for president--as a democrat. Born in Brooklyn, Sanders arrived in Vermont via Chicago, where he was first elected Mayor of Burlington in 1981 by a margin of 10 votes. And from the climate crisis to income inequality to his Medicare For All plan, Sanders has been a consistent progressive voice ever since, as mayor, congressman, and finally, senator. But has Sanders had a measurable impact on our democracy? Does he know how to ‘play the game’? On this episode, host of Who Is, Sean Morrow, talks to the Vermonters who know “Bernie” best, including another former candidate for president: former Vermont governor Howard Dean.
GUESTS:
- Howard Dean, 2004 Democratic Candidate for President; former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2005-2009); Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
- Alan Abbey, Director of Internet and Media at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel
- Bob Kinzel, of Vermont Public Radio
- Dave Levinthal, editor-at-large at the Center for Public Integrity
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| 0:00.0 | Instead of spending money for food production, for education, for all the things that human |
| 0:05.5 | people need, health care, we spend it for weaponry. |
| 0:08.9 | And that is, and I'm glad you, you know, we started this discussion off by saying, what would |
| 0:13.6 | you deal with if you were running for president? |
| 0:15.7 | I think probably in my own mind, that's the most important issue. |
| 0:18.9 | You just heard the then-Mayor of Burlington, Vermont, |
| 0:23.1 | Bernie Sanders, back in 1987 on the city's public access station. Today, in 2019, as a U.S. |
| 0:31.2 | senator and serious candidate for president, he's talking about the very same things on national |
| 0:37.3 | television. He's one of the front same things on national television. |
| 0:38.5 | He's one of the frontrunners for the 2020 Democratic presidential race |
| 0:42.6 | and a major voice in the Democratic Party. |
| 0:45.9 | So how did he get there? |
| 0:48.0 | How did somebody who got 1% of the vote in Vermont elections running as an obscure third-party candidate |
| 0:53.9 | go on to mold the |
| 0:55.9 | democratic platform and possibly be president. Who is Bernie Sanders? I'm Sean Morrow. Welcome to Who is |
| 1:07.2 | from Now This? The podcast where we examine power by looking at the people who have it, |
| 1:13.0 | through interviews with folks who've known or have followed them for years. |
| 1:17.6 | This week, we're looking at independent Vermont Senator and two-time candidate for the Democratic |
| 1:23.0 | presidential nomination. Bernard doesn't have a middle name, Sanders. |
| 1:28.5 | The Vermont senator, as anyone who has heard him talk would know, isn't from Vermont. |
| 1:34.7 | He's from Brooklyn. |
| 1:35.9 | He's Jewish. |
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