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[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Elizabeth Warren (Mass.),

John Fetterman (Pa.)

Chuck Schumer (N.Y.)

Cory Booker (N.J.)

Jeff Merkley (Ore.)

Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.)

Ron Wyden (Ore.)

John Hickenlooper (Colo.)

Peter Welch (Vt.)

Chris Van Hollen (Md.)

Alex Padilla (Calif.).

Edit: and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

11 Democratic senators, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)

He already got left out of the headline

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

And then I also left him out. Sorry Bernie!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Surprised to not see Bernie on here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

givesmefucks beat me to it. :)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

He's there.

In a letter addressed to Attorney General Merrick Garland and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram, 11 Democratic senators, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), argued the administration “should deschedule marijuana altogether.”

They could have said "12 Senators..."

But went with the option that excluded Bernie since he's not a D.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this new? I always knew him as a D. When did he drop that position?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

He's never been a D

But he's very open about how the two party system sucks and if he ran third party it would.only hurt progress

So every election he runs in the democratic primary. And abides by the results.

It's why him wanting to stay till he was eliminated and getting called a "spoiler" is such bullshit. If Bernie really wanted to, he could have nuked any Dem candidate by running third party in the general.

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