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BBC Profile of Vt's Bernie Sanders, Socialist Senator
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
[The BBC profiles Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont.]
BBC via Common Dreams; republished by CubaNow - Jan 5, 2007
http://www.cubanow.net/global/loader.php?&secc=12&item=1839&cont=show.php
Socialist Senator Makes US History
By Richard Allen Greene
The US Senate may not be ready for Bernard Sanders. It's a collegial, even
fusty place, where senators' hair turns white with decades of speeches and
service.
Mr Sanders has the requisite white hair surrounding his bald patch, but his
attitude remains unmistakeably New York despite his many years in Vermont.
"Anybody read your website?" he asks the BBC brusquely at the beginning of
an interview ahead of taking his seat in the Senate.
Assured that millions do, he says: "OK, let's talk to them."
The blunt manner is not all that sets apart Mr Sanders, the newly-elected
senator from Vermont known to all and sundry simply as "Bernie".
