Sanders on not endorsing his son, who is running for Congress in NH:
“Levi has spent his life in service to low income and working families, and I am very proud of all that he has done. In our family, however, we do not believe in dynastic politics.”https://t.co/ZrU45PDRI4
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) June 7, 2018
From the hometown paper:
… Aversion to dynasties aside, New Hampshire observers speculate that the real reason Bernie Sanders has not weighed in on his son’s behalf is that Levi Sanders is running what most in the state consider to be an inept campaign – and Bernie Sanders doesn’t want to be damaged in the run-up to a potential 2020 campaign of his own.
“Nobody I know is really considering Levi as an option,” said former state senator Burt Cohen, who was Bernie Sanders’ first prominent endorsement in 2016 and is backing a rival of Levi Sanders. “No, it’s actually worse than that: I don’t hear anyone even bringing up his name. People aren’t sure why he is running. If Levi thought he could just transfer the enthusiasm from his father to himself, well he is learning that is just not happening at all.
“It is just silly what he is doing,” Cohen added. “The way to sum up how people feel about the campaign is the eye rolls you get when his name does, infrequently, come up.” …
… Bernie Sanders’ decision not to weigh in has played a role in dampening support for his son, several longtime political observers say. If his own father isn’t backing him, why should voters? Last month, when Bernie Sanders had a conference call with the dozens of people on his New Hampshire steering committee, he thanked them for their work in 2016 and said it was crucial that they get involved in upcoming midterm elections. He never mentioned Levi’s campaign…
Now, if only Levi had access to the old man’s tax returns, he might’ve gotten more paternal respect…
"When Ivana Trump was pregnant with the couple's first child, she said her husband told her they could not name their son Donald Trump Jr. because of a specific concern.
"I said, 'Why not?'" she recalled. "He said, 'How about if he's a loser?'"
— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) November 13, 2017
Major Major Major Major
Hahahaha thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
He (Wilmer the First) isn’t running
Major Major Major Major
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Jeff Weaver’s sure been sounding like he is.
Duane
For once Trump was right.
Yutsano
So basically Wilmer can’t grift off his son therefore he won’t support his son. Gotcha.
Major Major Major Major
I feel like it’s worth mentioning that Levi is forty-eight years old.
Bobby Thomson
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): @Major Major Major Major: oh, he’s running all right, unless he croaks soon. But this time around I expect people to actually go negative on him on something other than guns.
Mai naem mobile
What happened to the investigation into Jane Sanders’ college scandal? I remember r they lawyered up but haven’t heard anything since.
Brachiator
Cold, but true. Donald Jr is a loser. Just like his old man.
Bernie Sanders news makes my teeth hurt. He’s so damn annoying. And this I hate “dynasties” purity crap… Ugh!
Did not know that Levi was 48. Is he trying to be a late bloomer.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Wilmer has to distance himself from his kid because of his awful pro-Trump/pro-NRA/pro Aggrieved-White-Male/pro-Confederate Flag tweets.
Citizen Alan
@Bobby Thomson:
One of my most persistent “If Only’s” about the 2016 campaign is this:
If only, Martin O’Malley had been a halfway viable candidate. He’d have never beaten Hillary, but he’d have wanted to at least get into second place. Which means he’d have actually used all the oppo research that everyone knew was out there on Wilmer but that Hillary chose not to use in the futile hope of not alienating Wilmer’s cultists.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Which is bullshit cuz his daughter ran for Mayor of Burlington a couple of months ago. Either he’s lying or none of the kids got the memo.
sukabi
@Yutsano: think it’s more that Levi is an embarrassment…a month or so ago something was said and linked to his Twitter page. I spent about 10 minutes reading through his tweets…he’s barely literate and some of the crap he says, retweets, links to is just plain Cray. It’s close to accidently falling thru a wormhole into some FOX comment section.
Brachiator
OT, maybe there will be more on this tomorrow.
Store reacts to narrow ruling about gay wedding cakes.
Link
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/391249-tennessee-store-puts-no-gays-allowed-sign-back-up-after-supreme-court-cake-ruling
hellslittlestangel
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: He’s just a rebellious 48-year old teenager trying to get Dad’s goat.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hellslittlestangel: Kids these days.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Amyx is gonna get a rude awakening.
To say the very least. BTW, the town is Washburn, Tennessee. Just took a peek and the store has a 1.5 rating on Yelp. Expect that to drop some more.
Anne Laurie
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
IIRC, in the VT media he kept calling her his stepdaughter. Which is true, if not kind. If she’d won, no doubt he’d have welcomed her back to ‘his’ family.
Levi, poor man, is unambiguously his father’s genetic offspring… so all Daddy can do about him is pretend he doesn’t exist.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: Just looked up Washburn on google maps for it’s location. It’s just south of the intersection of Tater Valley Rd and Cracker Neck Rd. All you need to know.
NotMax
@OzrakHillbilly
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
Courtesy of Yelp:
J R in WV
I’m not surprised that Jeff Amyx, the hardware store bigot, believes he can put that sign out there now and never get in trouble for it ever again. But if some gay biker tools by and sees it, he may live to regret it, IF he lives through the beating he so richly deserves.
If I weren’t so elderly and decrepit I would do it on account of the people I love who are gay, although most of them would discourage that. They’re nicer people than I am, and I perceive that bigots don’t learn except from painful experience.
And that’s what the “narrow ruling” by the Supremes does for the gay community. It makes all the homophobic bigots forget all the other supportive rulings the court has made in the face of what should be an obscure ruling about crummy cake making. People of that sort really seem to need someone to despise and look down on, I guess because the haters are so despicable themselves.
The next few times some innocent gay youngster gets beaten or killed for being what they are, that’s on the judges that made that ruling about that damned wedding cake. All of them.
And calling it a victory for Christians, how despicable can you get? If you believe in that specific religion, then we are all the way God made us, and who are these ignorant bigots to reject God’s creations? I do not recall Jesus speaking negatively about gay people in their bible!!
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Not even the liberal Our Revolution
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
HA!
Barbara
@Anne Laurie: How is it unkind? Presumably she has a biological father as well, in addition to not sharing Sanders’ name. It just seems accurate.
Another Scott
ATC on NPR (or maybe it was ME) had an interview with Wilmer yesterday, asking him about endorsements. I don’t know if they asked about his son specifically.
He said (roughly): “I’m not a Democrat… If I cared about my record on endorsements, I’d just pick the Establishment™ candidate or the one with the biggest war chest. Then I’d have a 100% record and look like a genius! But that’s not what I’m about. I’m about getting new people to run for office and move the Democratic party to the Left. And if our candidates get 45% this time, maybe they’ll win next time!”
Of course, it’s nonsense. If endorsements and normal politicking like that didn’t matter, then what is Our Revolution™ all about? It’s just sour grapes. And why a non-Democrat is worried about what the Democratic Party does is still something that he has never explained very well. Grrr…
Wilmer doesn’t care about anyone’s politics but his own. Not even his kids’. It’s always, always about how pure Wilmer is…
Cheers,
Scott.
Gelfling 545
@NotMax: I don’t know about other people’s experiences but I personally have never been adked about my sexual preferences in a hardware store. If I had been asked, I’d probably call the cops figuring the person asking was some sort of perverted harasser type.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Another Scott:
He’s so full of shit. He refuses to endorse Cynthia Nixon (who’s a new person trying to move NY to the left).
John
The guy who conceded the south to his main rival, letting her build an insurmountable lead in the delegate count, thinks someone is running an inept campaign? Huh.