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Related: About this forumBernie & Larry Sanders:candidate's brother crosses Atlantic to watch debate
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/12/bernie-larry-sanders-brothers-presidential-debate?CMP=fb_us#comment-61292763Larry Sanders, who lives in Britain, is scheduled to land in New York on Tuesday morning and watch the debate later that evening. On Monday he told the Guardian he would do so nervously, but with hope.
I am certainly nervous about it, he said. It will be a very big event, very important for the campaign. Ive seen hes mentioned online that its daunting, but hes been of course in dozens of debates before so hes not a newcomer.
Bernie Sanderss brother is six years older, at 80, and the candidate has named him as a major political influence. Bernie has credited Larry with introducing him, as they grew up in Brooklyn, to ideas and books that formed his political beliefs.
Bernards campaign and Bernards potential election is really about the most important political event in very, very many years, said Larry Sanders. He is really very different from the other candidates.
Wonder if Hillary's 2 ne-er do well brothers or Bill Clinton's half-sister, whom he's never bothered to meet, will attend. As to the Brothers Rodham, "Will they be a problem? Yes. They underscore everything that people fear and hate about the Clintons," the aide said. "They're essentially the id of Bill and Hillary Clinton. A bunch of money-grubbing and opportunistic hillbillies with no sense of ethics, decency, or even legality. "
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clintons-brothers-tony-and-hugh-rodham-2015-5The newspaper pointed to a wide range of Tony Rodham's business activities including a Haitian gold mining venture and speeches he gave before Chinese investor conferences and a California cosmetics company.
Earlier this year, Tony Rodham was linked to alleged political favors in a report published by the Department of Homeland Security's investigator general. The report criticized a top DHS employee for appearing to go out of his way in 2010 and 2011 to assist "a politically connected regional center," where Tony was listed as the CEO.
The Times cited several other instances where Tony Rodham had tried to use his influence. After the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, former President Bill Clinton helped lead the recovery commission. According to the paper, Tony pressured his brother-in-law for funds. Tony himself reportedly discussed the arrangement in court proceedings that "were the result of a lawsuit over unpaid legal bills filed by his lawyer in a child support case."
"I deal through the Clinton Foundation. That gets me in touch with the Haitian officials," Tony said. "I hound my brother-in-law, because it's his fund that we're going to get our money from. ... And he keeps telling me, 'Oh, it's going to happen tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow.' Well, tomorrow hasnt come yet."
As to Clinton's 1/2 sister, "A newspaper reported that Bill Clinton's father, a traveling salesman who died before the future President was born, may have also fathered a daughter." http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/06/us/president-has-a-half-sister-an-arizona-family-claims.html What a family!
Go Bernie - a nation - or at least 99% thereof, turns its desperate eyes toward you.
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Bernie & Larry Sanders:candidate's brother crosses Atlantic to watch debate (Original Post)
Divernan
Oct 2015
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Cool article. Interesting to hear his bro's take on what's at the heart of his candidacy.
99th_Monkey
Oct 2015
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)1. Cool article. Interesting to hear his bro's take on what's at the heart of his candidacy.
Taking on the Wall St./income-inequality like no other candidate, which becomes the
linchpin that holds together a very comprehensive set of other policies, that all complement
and support each other synergistically. Like how ending private prisons also helps roll
back the mass-incarceration-damage done with Big Dawg's "tough on crime" & War on
Drugs policies, which in turn serves as part of addressing the racist criminal justice
system & police violence against PoC, and so it goes.
I absolutely love my candidate for the White House.
PSPS
(13,588 posts)2. For a moment, I thought this was about this Larry Sanders
jfern
(5,204 posts)3. Is it at a debate viewing party?
Spirochete
(5,264 posts)4. You mean he's not
just a character played by Garry Shandling? Hmmm