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lumberjack_jeff

(33,224 posts)
Sat May 7, 2016, 10:47 AM May 2016

Bernie Sanders knows

[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left:0; border:3px solid #000066; color:#33000; background:#F1F2F7; width:550px;"]Ask any American politician which people have the lowest average income and the chances are you’ll get a wrong answer.

Bernie Sanders knows.

Ask which ethnic group has the shortest life expectancy, the highest major disease rates, the highest incarceration rates, the fewest education opportunities or the smallest per person investment by the federal government and the response will very likely be incorrect.

Bernie Sanders will get it right. Every time.

Why does Senator Bernie Sanders know these things about Native Americans?

He knows because he cares enough to know...

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Fawn R. Sharp is the current President of the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, Washington. Her past positions included managing attorney and lead counsel; and staff attorney for the Quinault Indian Nation, administrative law judge for the Washington state Department of Revenue – Tax Appeals Division, Quinault Tribal Court Associate Judge, and Counsel for Phillips, Krause & Brown.

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/05/06/bernie-sanders-knows-164393

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Bernie Sanders knows (Original Post) lumberjack_jeff May 2016 OP
But...but..."people of color support Hillary." Lizzie Poppet May 2016 #1
 

Lizzie Poppet

(10,164 posts)
1. But...but..."people of color support Hillary."
Sat May 7, 2016, 11:07 AM
May 2016

Apparently for those constantly parroting that line, red doesn't count.

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