Senator Sanders has made the request for greater exposure for the benefit of the people and their election choices. At least offer the opportunity to expand the number of debates and their participants. They would have to decline. That includes the GOP, too.
Senator Sanders is a very open, honest man that profoundly cares about the people that elect him. He is successful and the electorate has faith in his abilities. His real problem is exactly the fact he is open, honest and profoundly cares about the people that elect him.
The USA is in a mood. It is a mood driven by the national debt, wayward wars and their understanding of threats of violence in their lives. Senator Sanders will have answers to all those ailments. But, his enthusiasm and positive point of view regarding the poor and business will be viewed through the kaleidoscope of the national debt and the powerlessness they feel regarding the large banks.
The upside for Senator Sanders is that sincere insight to the best ideas and OUTCOMES has never been addressed. If he solves the problem he will be called a Socialist. The thing is in realizing he was advocating for subsidized housing to be converted to an opportunity for ownership is more a capitalist idea than that of a socialist.
He is completely capable of communicating real solutions to the American people and the people should have the opportunity to hear them and debate their merit. He'd make a great president. The DNC has a responsibility to entertain all the ideas of their prospective candidate. It would interesting and it would provide exposure to other Democratic hopefuls that do not have large election funding.
But, I do warn, the Democrats will be labeled by their agenda during the Obama Administration and Senator Sanders can become the icon for the party's ridicule. I just don't want important people to enter into a contest for the presidency without realizing they can become a victim to Republicans for the purpose of estranging the American people.
I have a prospective question: "Your policies would have to pass though the legislature so there needs to be a way to move important bills through Congress. How would you overcome the grid lock in Congress?"
If the other candidates refuse to engage the electorate in the way Senator Sanders would like it to happen, he can still hold his own town hall meetings and/or an internet chat with questions from the people.
His success with the bipartisan electorate would encourage and/or embarrass the rest of the field.
Senator Sanders is a very open, honest man that profoundly cares about the people that elect him. He is successful and the electorate has faith in his abilities. His real problem is exactly the fact he is open, honest and profoundly cares about the people that elect him.
The USA is in a mood. It is a mood driven by the national debt, wayward wars and their understanding of threats of violence in their lives. Senator Sanders will have answers to all those ailments. But, his enthusiasm and positive point of view regarding the poor and business will be viewed through the kaleidoscope of the national debt and the powerlessness they feel regarding the large banks.
The upside for Senator Sanders is that sincere insight to the best ideas and OUTCOMES has never been addressed. If he solves the problem he will be called a Socialist. The thing is in realizing he was advocating for subsidized housing to be converted to an opportunity for ownership is more a capitalist idea than that of a socialist.
He is completely capable of communicating real solutions to the American people and the people should have the opportunity to hear them and debate their merit. He'd make a great president. The DNC has a responsibility to entertain all the ideas of their prospective candidate. It would interesting and it would provide exposure to other Democratic hopefuls that do not have large election funding.
But, I do warn, the Democrats will be labeled by their agenda during the Obama Administration and Senator Sanders can become the icon for the party's ridicule. I just don't want important people to enter into a contest for the presidency without realizing they can become a victim to Republicans for the purpose of estranging the American people.
I have a prospective question: "Your policies would have to pass though the legislature so there needs to be a way to move important bills through Congress. How would you overcome the grid lock in Congress?"
If the other candidates refuse to engage the electorate in the way Senator Sanders would like it to happen, he can still hold his own town hall meetings and/or an internet chat with questions from the people.
His success with the bipartisan electorate would encourage and/or embarrass the rest of the field.
This is an article in "The Nation" by Peter Dreier and Pierre Clavel.
...“Bernie (click here) pounded his fist on the conference table in his
office and told the owners, ‘Over my dead body are you going to displace
336 working families. You are not going to convert Northgate into luxury housing,’” recalled Davis, who was Sanders’s key housing aide.
Under Sanders’s leadership, the city adopted a number of laws to stifle the owners’ plans. One ordinance required apartment owners to give residents two years’ notice before a condo conversion. Others gave residents a pre-emptive right to buy the units and prohibited landlords from bulldozing buildings unless they replaced them with the same number of affordable units. (These measures lowered the selling price of the property.) Sanders then worked with the state government and Senator Patrick Leahy to get the $12 million needed to purchase and rehabilitate the buildings. The city allocated funds to help the tenants hire an organizer, form the Northgate Residents Association, and start the process of converting the complex to resident ownership. Today, Northgate Apartments is owned by the tenants and has long-term restrictions to keep the buildings affordable for working families....
Under Sanders’s leadership, the city adopted a number of laws to stifle the owners’ plans. One ordinance required apartment owners to give residents two years’ notice before a condo conversion. Others gave residents a pre-emptive right to buy the units and prohibited landlords from bulldozing buildings unless they replaced them with the same number of affordable units. (These measures lowered the selling price of the property.) Sanders then worked with the state government and Senator Patrick Leahy to get the $12 million needed to purchase and rehabilitate the buildings. The city allocated funds to help the tenants hire an organizer, form the Northgate Residents Association, and start the process of converting the complex to resident ownership. Today, Northgate Apartments is owned by the tenants and has long-term restrictions to keep the buildings affordable for working families....
