In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington, the state’s largest city, by a mere 10 votes. He also served as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve as a military police officer until last month. However, he opposes the Trump administration’s unilateralist approach in both countries. I would meet with anybody! Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights? Priorities for the Next Coronavirus Relief Package Medicare for All Green New Deal College For All View all issues. As Sanders told the New Yorker, “Look, this is very difficult stuff.” He added, “I should have prefaced everything by saying I most certainly do not believe I have all the answers or that this is easy stuff. He won and served for four terms. Periodic messages. Meet Bernie. Not me. But not Sanders. How many hours of sleep do you get a night? The bespectacled intellectual said he was passionate about politics from a young age. Wikoff, 55, of Genoa in Cayuga County, is an electronic and technical services librarian at Ithaca College. That’s where Winston Churchill gave his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946. “I met with Jared… that’s a friend of mine. He said America needs “trade policies that reflect the interests of workers and not multinational corporations” and he called for “a foreign policy which focuses on democracy, human rights, diplomacy, and world peace. Children: Levi (49); and three stepchildren: Heather (48), Carina (45), and David (44), Alma Mater: Brooklyn College, University of Chicago (BA), Career: Mayor of Burlington, Vermont (1981-1989); U.S. Representative (1991-2007); U.S. All rights reserved (About Us). Bernie Sanders est politiquement indépendant mais administrativement rattaché aux démocrat… As mayor, Bernie’s leadership helped transform Burlington into one of the most exciting and livable small cities in America. Bernie Sanders on the issues. After the 2016 election, MacNeil changed his voter registration from the Green Party to the Democratic Party. When asked where he would go on his first international trip as president, he answered: “I have no idea. Thanks for visiting Syracuse.com. Bernie Sanders was born in Brooklyn in 1941 to a lower-middle-class Jewish family. He was fine with “imposing stiff penalties on countries like China, Russia, South Korea and Vietnam to prevent them from illegally dumping steel and aluminum into the U.S. and throughout the world.” And he says “of course” he would use tariffs as a negotiating tool. Do you support or oppose the death penalty? He ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1972 and 1976 and for the U.S. Senate in 1972 and 1974 on the Liberty Union ticket. Sanders says that his calls for progressive policies that were once considered “too radical,” like Medicare-for-all, a $15-an-hour-minimum wage, and free college tuition, are now supported “by a majority of Americans” and a part of the “political mainstream.” So his 2016 campaign “began the political revolution. WATCH - Vote Now: Car Rally in Macomb County, MI. Sanders has been a leading Senate critic of U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Should tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google be broken up? Do you think President Trump has committed crimes in office? View all. He would also be the first Jewish American elected president. WATCH - Vote Now: Car Rally in Macomb County, MI. He believes multinational corporations exercise too much political power, and he regularly attacks Wall Street, health-insurance companies, Big Pharma, the fossil-fuel industry, and the military-industrial complex. In the case of one question — regarding President Trump’s legal issues — the candidates answered at different points during the completion of the investigation by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, so their answers reflected the facts available to them at the time. Text STOP to 67760 to stop receiving messages. Subscribe to syracuse.com. For five months after he declared his candidacy, his campaign website didn’t have a section dedicated to foreign policy. Back in 2016, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist gave heavily favored Hillary Clinton a surprisingly tough run for the Democratic presidential nomination. MacNeil, 34, of Solvay, works as a paralegal in Syracuse. He instead says that he “would withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan as expeditiously as possible,” adding that “withdrawing troops does not mean withdrawing all involvement, and my administration would stay politically engaged in these countries and do whatever we can to help them develop their economy and strengthen a government that is responsible to its people.”. The New York Times reached out to 22 Democratic presidential candidates to ask them the same set of questions on video. Is the second time the charm? The delegates will be awarded to presidential candidates proportionately, based on the number of votes the candidate receives in each of New York’s 27 congressional districts. Analysis: Iowa Democrats drawn to two faces of change in caucus, Joe Biden’s poor showing in Iowa caucus shakes establishment support, Contact Mark Weiner: Email | Twitter | Facebook | 571-970-3751. The New York Times Magazine profiled Sanders back in 2007, calling the then freshman senator “an awkward fit in the chummy realm of Capitol Hill. Meet Bernie. Earlier this month Sanders spent an hour on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. He believes Americans are “inherently entitled” to health care, education, a clean environment, and decent paying jobs. He then gave two major foreign policy speeches outlining what a progressive foreign policy would look like. Sanders strongly opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and supported Trump’s decision to exit the deal: I am glad the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead and gone. In 2006, he was elected to the U.S. Senate after 16 years as Vermont’s sole congressman in the House of Representatives. Bernie Sanders is a U.S. We’re building a movement to transform our economy to one that works for all of us and not just the one percent. This is better for our security, better for global stability and better for facilitating the international cooperation necessary to meet shared challenges. He says that made him recognize at an early age the importance of elections because “an election in 1932 ended up killing fifty million people around the world.”. Neither speech talks much about what Sanders would do as president. Nor, on the other hand, is our goal to withdraw from the international community and shirk our responsibilities under the banner of “America First.” Our goal should be global engagement based on partnership, rather than dominance. I love everybody! Sanders appeared on a CNN Town Hall back in April. At Westminster, he stressed: The goal is not for the United States to dominate the world. We did not ask John Hickenlooper when his family first arrived in the United States because we added that question after his interview. Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your California Privacy Rights (each updated 1/1/20). Blog Post by In it we see two competing visions. Does anyone deserve to have a billion dollars? ... Meet the Candidates. Weinstein, 65, of DeWitt, has been a clinical social worker in Syracuse for about 40 years. flip the Manlius Town Board from Republican to Democratic control. Do you think it’s possible for the next president to stop climate change? She volunteered for the Sanders campaign in Central New York in 2016, helping with canvassing, data entry and voter registration drives. Now, I’m fine to meet with Biden. Just like in his 2016 campaign, Sanders is seeking to establish a grassroots movement that demands that the government work for all and not just the few. There are a lot of hot spots around the world.”. The Questions 1. I mean, you’re dealing with so much—my God.” (Sanders told the Intercept something similar: “Anyone who thinks there is a simple solution in dealing with all of the horrific and longstanding conflicts in the world would be mistaken … Where we’ve got to be radical is to understand we cannot continue with simply using military as a means of addressing foreign policy issues.”) Of course, presidents are the ones responsible for figuring out the details. Now, I’m fine to meet with Biden. Nick Cannon returned with the second part of his interview with Kanye West, and just like part one, there was nothing dull about it. Deer chaired the successful campaign to flip the Manlius Town Board from Republican to Democratic control in November. He co-sponsored the resolution that would have ended that support. Why? For the last 30 years, we have had a series of trade deals—including the North American Free Trade Agreement, permanent normal trade relations with China and others—which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs and caused a ‘race to the bottom’ which has lowered wages for American workers. Senator (2007-present), Campaign Website: https://berniesanders.com/. The election will determine how many delegates each Democratic presidential candidate will receive out of the 278 up for grabs in New York’s election, the second highest of any state after California’s 415 delegates. Thank you for being a part of it. Friends of Bernie Sanders In an ideal world, would anyone own handguns? The sessions took place between the beginning of March and early June. He began working as a community organizer for the Syracuse Peace Council in 1977 and continued working at the organization through the early 1990s. Il est auparavant maire de Burlington, plus grande ville de l'État, de 1981 à 1989, puis membre de la Chambre des représentants des États-Unis de 1991 à 2007. The second was last October at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Sanders says “it simply makes no sense to start a trade war with Canada, the European Union and others who are engaged in fair trade, are not cheating and where workers are paid a living wage with good benefits.” More broadly, he thinks Trump’s use of tariffs “is totally irrational and it is destabilizing the entire world economy.”. Both speeches were long generalities, short on actionable specifics. PO Box 391 Sign up for a morning roundup of news and analysis from around the world. Here are the seven delegates on the Sanders slate: Brown, 27, of Syracuse, is the only one of the seven delegates who served as a Sanders presidential delegate in 2016.