Bye, Bernie!

[SunsetBengal]

Dear Democratic Socialists, We are gathered here today to bid farewell to the campaign of Bernie Sanders. Yes, that's right. The Champion of the "Fight for $15" movement, refuses to live up to his own rhetoric, and won't pay his own campaign workers $15/hr.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/labor-fight-roils-bernie-sanders-campaign-as-workers-demand-the-15-hourly-pay-the-candidate-has-proposed-for-employees-nationwide/2019/07/18/3a6df9f4-a966-11e9-9214-246e594de5d5_story.html?fbclid=IwAR3WmIw8fnuiLpdtCSsOkormCbtRvOgvXMe_2-HXYl9BnEI7z7shJl1dlyc&noredirect=on&utm_term=.c01ea821f290

Quote:Campaign field hires have demanded an annual salary they say would be equivalent to a $15-an-hour wage, which Sanders for years has said should be the federal minimum. The organizers and other employees supporting them have invoked the senator’s words and principles in making their case to campaign manager Faiz Shakir, the documents reviewed by The Washington Post show.

Sanders has made standing up for workers a central theme of his presidential campaigns — this year marching with McDonald’s employees seeking higher wages, pressing Walmart shareholders to pay workers more and showing solidarity with university personnel on strike. The independent from Vermont has proudly touted his campaign as the first presidential effort to unionize its employees, and his defense of the working class has been a signature element of his brand of democratic socialism and a rallying cry for the populist movement he claims to lead.

Wow, he shot himself in the foot before the primaries..