Sanders to run as a Democrat -- but not accept nomination (2018 Senate)

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572. Started in 1990, when they refused to authorize a candidate to the left of Bernie

The unauthorized Democratic candidate in 1990, Delores Sandoval, an African American faculty member at the University of Vermont, was amazed that the official party treated her as a nonperson and Bernie kept outflanking her to her right. She opposed the Gulf build-up, Bernie supported it. She supported decriminalization of drug use and Bernie defended the war on drugs, and so on.

In 1993, Sandoval lamented the state party’s coordination against her much in the same way that Sanders now blasts the Democratic establishment.

“This lack of state party support even after the primary brings forth the question: were the voters deprived of their civil rights in not having their voice count when the Democratic party did not support the candidate of their Party and of their choice?” Sandoval wrote in a response to a Federal Elections Commission complaint against her campaign.

In her complaint, Sandoval reported that the Vermont Democratic party “did not even provide one dollar of financial support,” nor did it attempt to align her campaign with any relevant Political Action Committees.

http://www.talkmedianews.com/featured/2016/05/30/when-bernie-was-the-man/