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By Jon Street, Mar. 21, 2014, Vermont Watchdog
BURLINGTON, Vt. — U.S. Sen. Bernie
Sanders says he’s worried the U.S. Postal Service is running out of cash, but
he may be worried more about his own campaign cash.
In a March 4
editorial published in the Wall Street Journal, Sanders, a Vermont
independent, called the USPS one of the country’s most important government
agencies.
“It supports millions of jobs in
virtually every other sector of our economy. It provides decent-paying union
jobs to some 500,000 Americans, and it is the largest employer of veterans,” he
wrote.
For Sanders, however, these
“decent-paying union jobs” translate into high-paying
campaign supporters. Since Sanders was first elected to
the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990 and then the U.S. Senate in 2006,
labor unions with ties to the USPS have ranked among the top financial
supporters of his political campaigns.
The American Postal Workers Union has
given $36,200 since Sanders went to work in Washington. The National
Association of Letter Carriers has dumped $50,000 into Sanders’ campaign
coffers. When
asked to respond, Sally Davidow, an APWU spokesperson, told Vermont
Watchdog, “We don’t direct (Sanders’) work as a senator,
certainly… We’re not a special interest or big money organization. We
represent working people, blue collar people who go to work every day, work an
eight-hour shift, punch a clock — regular working folks.”
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