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Juanita’s Facebook friends got to chatting about Bernie Sander’s amazing performance on the Senate floor on Friday.  I was pretty impressed myownself.

So, I fessed up to something.  Bernie’s finance director is an adored friend of mine.  Carol Davis is a Texan who owned a really fancy winter coat so she moved to Vermont so she could wear it more often.

I let Carol know how much applause Bernie was getting in Texas and asked her where folks could send snail mail that would actually get to him.  (Remember the problems we had trying to get books to Senators?)

Carol has given me permission to share her chatty response with you —

Bernie has a crack staff  and when people have gone to them for help they are just amazed at the support they get. Just a point you may not realize, this is pure Bernie, he’s never changed from when he started way back when he won the Mayor job in Burlington by 12 votes.  A lot of people were terrified that this “Socialist ” was the mayor, but he did such a good job that he won by a landslide in the next election. When he ran for Senate the only real opposition could have been Gov. Dubie (R) ( we call him Gov. Scissorhands here because you can’t open up a can of tuna without him being there for the opening). He’s been replaced by a Dem. Peter Schumlin, who will be in office next year.  Anyway he was the best shot the R’s had was polled against Bernie and only got 30% of the polling oks so he decided not to run. The R’s had to get a guy named Tarrent to run who could fund his own campaign since he was a multimillionaire and he only got 34% of the vote after millions going to that campaign. You are probably aware of recent Vermont history but of the Senators only Pat Leahy, Bernie and Jim Jeffords when he bailed ever caucased with the Dems. This was a solid Republican State but Liberal Republicans, when the party changed so did the voting trends here. But even with the Bush voters in the North east Kingdom it was not uncommon to see a Bush and a Bernie sign on lawns there. Bernie’s secret is he talks to people who (think) they don’t agree with him. Then they realize he makes sense.

Bernie has not changed over time, he works constantly, a true believer. when he walks down the street in Burlington people shout “Hey, Bernie, Hi!” I myself run into Pat Leahy and Marcelle in the supermarket from time to time and we are all on a first name basis with our congressmen.

Also, if you’re not aware Peter Welsh, our congressman who replaced Bernie in the house, was putting his own position paper in circulation in the house and the two of them worked as a team. Leahy also is in support of this. Not to mention DFA , Dean’s old group was circulating a petition which BTW you folks should sign.

Again, if Bernie is home this weekend , (he might not come home between his long day today and the storm coming up on Sunday/Monday he may stay in DC) you have the Burlington address and the DC address.

I’ll send a copy of the facebook coments you got to his Email.

Here’s the snail mail addresses:

Burlington, 1 Church St., 2nd Floor, Burlington,VT 05401

Washington D.C., 332 Dirksen Building, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510

Carol comes here pretty often so send her a hug!