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Working Families Party national director Dan Cantor lauded growing momentum for Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign for President today, as the Communications Workers of America union and progressive group Democracy for America both announced endorsements for Senator Sanders today.
“The political revolution Bernie Sanders has called for is already starting to take shape. Young people and grassroots activists are volunteering in droves for Senator Sanders. Now, important progressive groups are adding their voices. Combined, those are the ingredients of a winning campaign. This is a big moment for anyone who wants to see a government that truly serves all of us, and not just the wealthy and well-connected.”
The Working Families Party announced its endorsement for Bernie Sanders last week. It was the progressive party’s first national endorsement, and came following a membership vote in which 87% of WFP members voted to support Bernie Sanders.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
I am thrilled to read that Bernie is getting national support from two unions. He is the only person who will work to help average and poor Americans.
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Ditto…and the teachers’ unions say…?
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Like I have poseted: NO HILLARY 4 ME. Look at her record of deceit.
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Same here.
Go, Bernie, go!
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HALLELUJAH!!!! Far too long in coming. I read recently somewhere the statistics of how much media coverage Donald Trump got in minutes – and Bernie got one. The military industrial complex and big business does not want him there.
I am concerned when people say they will not vote for Hillary. There is MUCH which I dislike about her but especially after watching the debacle of the Republican last “debate” I am terrified that any one of them would get into the White House.
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I don’t support Hillary, I don’t like Hillary, I will absolutely vote for Hillary if she is the Democratic nominee.
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It is time to stop voting from a position of fear. The republicans will vote based on their fear of an islamic boogeyman. They want a daddy to save them.
I will not vote for a neo-liberal corporate shill because I fear a republican boogeyman.
The democrat party better begin to realize that there are lots of democrats that will not vote for who they’re pushing (Hillary).
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The significance of Bernie’s strength is in the primaries.
I don’t support HRC or her entire neoliberal team of privatizers, either. However, voting for Bernie in the primary will help real progressives on national down ballots. Public school advocates who turn out for Bernie can bring true progressives to the polls and win millions of local elections.
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Yay. I’m grateful to Sanders for running. It’s nice to hear someone talking about wages and how ALL the work that people do has value and dignity.
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When the “scandal” over the VA started I thought “they want to privatize the VA”. My father is a veteran and he loves the VA. He goes there for check ups and he stays the whole day- he knows all of the people who work there. He’s 90.
Shortly afterwards I was driving and I heard Sanders on the radio and he said “they want to privatize the VA”.
I really could have cheered. Simple, true statement. No one else would have had the courage to say it 🙂
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yep! Feel the Bern!
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“They” meaning Democrats & Republicans plan to privatize the VA, and our public universities, and the Post Office, and Head Start, and our national parks, and our water, and our airwaves (oops, they’ve done that) and the internet and whatever natural resources tht are not yet for sale.
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While I like Bernie’s unflinching stand on the distribution of wealth balancing the economy, what is his position on school reform, standardized testing, privatizing education, teaching as a profession, and teacher’s unions…as well as VAM?
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That’s a good question to ask and keep asking because Bernie is as evasive on that issue as Hillary. He says he opposes privatization, but he seems to show no understanding of how Common Core, high stakes testing, teacher evaluation, etc. is all tied to that. And even though he says he opposes privatization, he doesn’t seem to be opposed to charters – he seems to think they are public. But all he’ll really say about education is the same as what Hillary says – universal pre-k, free college and “I support public education”.
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Vermont is unique in its approach to most of the reform issues, so Bernie probably does not truly grasp the extent of the disruption that the USDOE and its big money backers have caused to the public school system. Susan Ohanian is probably a good person to question about the Vermont approach .
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What’s important overall is that Bernie is not a neoliberal who will entrench public private-partnerships into every element of our government. Not so with the Clinton machine, CAP, DC insiders.
Sanders has been fighting against privatization of social security, the post office & prisons for years.
For years, insider Democrats have been slowly undermining not only public education, but public pensions, medicare and potentially social security with poison pill language slipped into last min legislation.
A great deal of damage under Obama & Clinton insiders has been in the regulatory agencies. Social Security chained CPI was an Obama proposal as was the Cat Food Commission (Simpson-Bowels).
Educators should not forget this anecdote from 2011 that sums up the DC Democrats’ utter contempt for their supporters:
http://www.epi.org/publication/grading_the_education_reformers/
“The reformers’ arrogance is best on display when Brill gloats about the charade of appointing anti-reformer Linda Darling-Hammond to lead Obama’s official post-election education planning, while DFER, with funds from Eli Broad, wrote a secret memo for the “informal yet real education transition team.” Jon Schnur organized the effort and strove to calm his nervous fellow-reformers, assuring them that the Darling-Hammond appointment was only a sop to a faction that would have no real influence, while DFER’s secret memo set forth the Administration’s actual policy – including the naming of key Gates Foundation and Teach for America operatives for crucial administration policy posts, and calling for use of student test scores to evaluate teachers.”
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jcgrim,
Thanks for the final paragraph quote.
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On the Wednesday after Super Tuesday in April, I might have some serious decisions to make. Hopefully not. For every day until then, Bernie is the only candidate for POTUS. My deepest appreciation to the WFP and Dr. Ravitch. Go Bernie!
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Imagine! The WFP actually polled their members before declaring for Bernie.
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My thoughts exactly…..shame on AFT.
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Democracy for America also polled their members and I voted for Bernie in both polls. Shame on NEA as well.,
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How radical!
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Bernie is GOING to win this election. He is a sleeping giant to whom many voters are waking up . . . .
FEEL THE BERN!!!!!
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Daily, my family receives either solicitation letters or calls from representatives of the national Democratic party. Each occasion, is an opportunity to tell them, we support Bernie and that the nation was betrayed by Democrats, on the issue of education. Adding to the conversation, the teachers union leaders’ endorsement was given, without knowledge about whether the members-at-large, are Bernie or HRC supporters. The concluding statement is that the Dems can get their money from friends of Arne Duncan.
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