Comments by "Virginia Lawler" (@virginialawler7725) on "The New Yorker Union" video.
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This post is up to 7,677 viewers, with 1.3K likes and only 13 dislikes, as of Feb. 6, but that doesn't seem near enough to me either. Granted, the headline is only "The New Yorker Union," rather neutral. Doesn't tell folks up front that Sen. Sanders has said, unequivocally, "I stand with workers at The New Yorker fighting for a union. The New Yorker should sit down with the workers and agree to a fair contract." His name in the headline, I believe, would have and perhaps still could help draw many more signers.
I much miss this wonderful publication that I'd received as a gift for many years from a special friend who has recently passed away. At 82, I've felt I could not afford to subscribe myself. But, now I will, to honor Bernie and Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker writer who covered his rally, with Hillary Clinton, in Raleigh (where I live) in Nov 2016. It was one of 39 rallies in 13 states he (as the runner-up--with 13,000,000+ votes) held for her/with her after the primaries.
Sorkin wrote, "One of the many things that makes Donald Trump angry is that Sanders does not seem to hold grudges. 'Bernie Sanders should be angry, right?' Trump asked a crowd in Florida." She noted, "The truth is that Bernie Sanders is very, very angry--at Donald Trump. He is angry enough to have spent weeks travelling on behalf of Hillary Clinton, speaking for her in union halls and arenas, to students and activists."
Had Bernie been the nominee in '16, millions believe he would have beaten Trump, and America would have been spared these 4+ years, 30,000 fact-checked lies and every other negative by "the worst president in the modern history of our nation," as Bernie described him often. But, chat tells us that actions by the DNC, Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Donna Brazille and others assured that we did not have the opportunity to find out.
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