Working Life

I have no issue with people, especially “liberals”, wanting to debate me about Bernie’s programs and vision. Bring it on. They can only think about little teensy steps, and put their faith in a fraudulently packaged candidate, versus thinking big and bold. Fine. But, where I draw the line is a sleazy attack on Bernie […]

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I ran into a well-known super-delegate a few days ago as we crossed paths doing some media stuff (I’m only leaving her name out of this for now because it’s not the point of the story). We chit-chatted and I raised the issue of the potential undemocratic nature of super-delegates undercutting the actual vote of […]

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Day two on the voyage is Martin Luther King’s  Birthday. It’s actually, traditionally, been a service day in Iowa when people go to churches, community centers and the like to volunteer—but campaign events per se are light. Bernie arrives tomorrow in the state for a series of rallies starting in Fort Dodge. I’ll be there. […]

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begin today a three-week road trip for Bernie speaking for him in Iowa, then, Nevada for a few days in the rural areas around Reno, back to Iowa for the final week, then, the day after the Iowa caucuses headed to New Hampshire. I’m hoping to do at least one report per day but, you […]

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Forget what you read from this day on about the polls and the pundits and the status quo rhetoric. It’s over in Iowa and New Hampshire…and the status quo knows it. The Moveon endorsement—which VL Baker write about here—coupled with the enthusiasm we’ve already seen on the ground in Iowa for many weeks, which I […]

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I’m putting this story up from The New York Times because it reflects what I hear and see on the ground, as I begin a three-week trip on the campaign trail to speak for Bernie (today I’m heading to New Hampshire through Saturday, then, Iowa right to caucus day, and then, Feb 2nd back to […]

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Along the long list of claims obscured by magic dust the status quo candidate regularly sprays around—the you-have-to-be-drunk-to-believe her sudden opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (a trade deal she once called the “gold standard” which, I wager, would be a “gold standard” again at the appropriate time, with a change of 10 words and […]

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peaking a few subway stops away from the epicenter of the global financial crisis, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders promised to remake the financial system to serve America’s working families. Below are his prepared remarks. Watch the live stream here. The American people are catching on. They understand that something is profoundly wrong when, in our country […]

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I have long been an advocate for a single-payer, “Medicare for All” system for the simple economic reality that it is the only way people can get decent health care and not go bankrupt. It’s one of the many reasons I support Bernie. This morning, The New York Times illuminates this with a piece called […]

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Fuck those idiots at the Fed. Tools of Wall Street, the bond market and the rest of the pieces of crap that have savaged Americans. You hike interests rates for no economic reason other than some clamor from the very elites who just need to soak regular Americans even more. Bernie (from his Senate website […]

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