Reporter Recalls the 1981 Powers of Bernie Sanders
The Vermont senator has been doing this for 35 years.
When Bernie Sanders in 1981 won the race for mayor of Burlington, Vt., by just one-tenth of one percent, it was a shock to the old guard. But not to reporter Alan Abbey.
In the wake of Sanders’ New Hampshire primary victory, Abbey recalls today in the Times of Israel that, lo those many years ago, he witnessed first-hand just how dynamically this guy could resonate with voters:
I was new to Burlington, also a New Yorker, and also a Jew.
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