Oh that Bernie Sanders - what a political genius!
What long range planning (considering he didn't run for President until almost 8 years later.) 
http://www.ciw-online.org/blog/2008/01/senator_sanders_visit_report/
http://www.ciw-online.org/blog/2008/04/senate_hearing/
The historic hearing in the US Senate — the first ever specifically called to look into labor conditions in Florida’s fields, the nation’s largest producer of fresh tomatoes and, for many years, of shameful headlines of farmworker slavery and exploitation
— was called to order at 10:00 am Tuesday morning by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Senator Edward Kennedy (middle).
Then it was on to the hearing. The senators gathered for the start of the hearing — Sen. Bernie Sanders (left), Sen. Kennedy, Sen. Richard Durbin, and Sen. Sherrod Brown — opened the day’s proceedings with blistering denunciations of the conditions reported in Florida’s fields. Sen. Sanders, who visited Immokalee in January, told the hearing, “In America today we are seeing a race to the bottom, the middle class is collapsing, poverty is increasing. What I saw in Immokalee is the bottom in the race to the bottom.”
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That can't be right!
Seriously, his long-term commitment to workers is practically unmatched in today's political world.
