April 26, 2019
Sanders campaign trying (unsuccessfully) to explain away his 1970s attack on the immorality of senators being millionaires
By Thomas Lifson
Back in the 1970s, when he never thought he would have much money, Bernie Sanders was full of moral indignation at the idea that the United States Senate included a substantial number of millionaires. Nathan McDermott and Andrew Kaczynski of CNN excavated the old moral posturing:
Bernie Sanders harshly criticized the wealth of US senators during his first campaign for office in 1971, calling it "immoral" that half the members of the Senate were millionaires.
Sanders' decades-old comments, which were picked up in December 1971 by the Bennington Banner, a local Vermont newspaper, are resurfacing as the US senator from Vermont has acknowledged that he is now a millionaire in large part due to his 2016 best-selling book, "Our Revolution."
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/sanders_campaign_trying_unsuccessfully_to_explain_away_his_1970s_attack_on_the_immorality_of_senators_being_millionaires.html
