Working Life

From the campaign: Campaign manager Jeff Weaver issued the following statement on Tuesday after the Working Families Party board voted to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders for president: “Bernie has devoted his career to helping working families and is gratified by the support of the Working Families Party. Together they will work to take on the […]

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Bernie is about to address the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in New Hampshire. A flavor: We began this campaign seven months ago. We had no organization, no money, very little national name recognition and were at 3 percent in the polls. Today, we have hundreds of thousands of volunteers in every state in the country, including some […]

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I was on the road for ten days in Iowa and Nevada, speaking for Bernie in small towns and cities, so I actually didn’t get to listen to Bernie’s speech on Thursday until I got back home over the weekend and caught it on C-SPAN yesterday. Though it was billed primarily as a speech focusing […]

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Yesterday, I spoke before a group of Democrats in Reno, Nevada on behalf of Bernie and, at one point, someone asked me about why the biggest labor unions are not choosing to endorse Bernie. My first point was simple: it’s a crass and ugly if understandable choice—the union leaders, many of whom I know, understand […]

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It’s where the entire labor movement should be: Bernie Sanders has landed his biggest labor endorsement to date: the American Postal Workers Union, or APWU. The group represents 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and retirees from across all 50 states. The APWU executive board announced its choice early this morning. And “Politics as usual has […]

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In the roll-call of truly horrendous Village transcribers of press releases (formerly known as “journalists”) a standout has been Jackie Calmes. And, today, she keeps her reputation intact with a truly awful piece about the Trans Pacific Partnership. To begin, Calmes has a long and storied career at just gobbling up government nonsense and spitting […]

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In the wake of last night’s victory for Tea Party Republican Matt Bevin in the race for governor in Kentucky, this just came across my desk. Bi-Partisanship lives! From the Republican National Committee: “The entire Republican Party wants to extend its heartfelt praise and admiration for the leadership of Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her role […]

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Not breaking news per se, and the traditional media always gets the 411 late but, hey, at least it’s there: Bernie is dominating small donor support, which is better for politics and the country. The NYT stumbles on it (LOL): The success of the Boston area outfit, a nonprofit organization called ActBlue, can be seen […]

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Thirteen years ago today, Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash while he was campaigning for re-election. Each year, on this day, I write something about Paul as a small way to remember an astonishingly great Senator–besides Bernie Sanders, he’s the only politician in the last 30-40 years I’d walk over hot coals to help. […]

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I’ve been making this prediction for the past month, and the recent huge fundraising surge for Bernie in the 24 hours post debate and the recent election fundraising reports only buttress this guess: by the time of the New Hampshire primary, Bernie will out raise the status quo candidate and likely have more cash-on-hand, if […]

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