Bernie Sanders

Omaha Steve

(99,727 posts) Fri Nov 6, 2015, 07:50 PM Nov 2015

This Massachusetts seamstress needs help making her popular Bernie Sanders dolls

http://www.bdcwire.com/feel-the-lil-bern/

BDCWIRE 2 PM 11.06.2015

Emily Engel of Ludlow, MA had a simple dream: craft handmade “Lil’ Bernie” dolls, sell them, and donate some of the proceeds to Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign.

She didn’t expect her humble idea to explode and become massively popular, eventually leading to hundreds of orders of Lil’ Bernie dolls.

Now, Engel is reaching out and asking for help with her super-successful DIY business endeavor, MassLive reports.

In a Facebook post from October 27, Engel said that she is “desperately seeking a U.S. based [sic] manufacturer to help produce Lil’ Bernie.” Engel refuses to outsource her labor and is instead looking for other workers in the Massachusetts area to help her catch up on her hundreds of backorders.

Snip: Even the real Bernie has a Lil’ Bernie doll. Engel says she was able to give Bernie Sanders one of her creations when he was in Massachusetts for his campaign stop in Springfield.

“I handed him his doll, and he had been familiar with them previously because someone [at a different campaign stop] had made him sign one,” Engel said. “And he said, ‘Oh my goodness, I know what this is.”