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| https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/102715 | News October 27 | 2015-10-27 | 2015 | 2015-10 | Independent | House | VT | Bernard Sanders | S000033 | www.sanders.senate.gov | legacy | News October 27 Tuesday, October 27, 2015 The ViewOn Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders took a seat amid the ladiesofABC'SThe View. Sandersgot a chance to make the case as to why he can win and decried the disproportionate political influence of a handful of billionaires." He also signed copies of a 1987 folk album he had recorded, begging Whoopi Goldberg and the shows four other female co-hosts not to play it as his wife looked on from the audience, The Washington PostandThe Hillreported.LINK,LINK,VIDEO,VIDEO Sanders Joins Picket LineSanders took his muscular attacks on wealth inequality and corporate greed to New York City on Monday, joining approximately 200 Verizon workers and union members in Times Square as they rallied for a fair contract and to rehire an employee who was allegedly fired after she spearheaded an organizing campaign.Sanders, who has frequently argued for greater protections for workers , told union members several of whom held signs emblazoned with Stop Verizon Wireless corporate greed outside one of the companys retail stores that their struggle is symptomatic of whats happening in the rest of the countryThe Associated Press, MSNBC, The Huffington Post, Business Insider and New York Observer reported. LINK,LINK,LINK, LINK, LINK Federal Transportation Grant Vermont's congressional delegation and the governor announced late Monday a $10 million federal grant to improve rail service along the state's Western Corridor, which will remove the final hurdle for restoring passenger service between Rutland and Burlington, the Burlington Free Press reported. The grant was awarded to the Vermont Agency of Transportation as part of $500 million in Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grants across the country for rail and transportation improvements. LINK Dem Bums Long before he campaigned against corporate greed and an economy for the rich, a young Bernie Sanders learned his own painful lesson about big business. It came in the fall of 1957 when his neighborhood baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, The Guardian reported. Rumors of the Dodgers departure had been around for a couple of years before they actually moved. The deal Los Angeles was giving OMalley allowing him to swap a plot of land below downtown for a hilltop called Chavez Ravine was too good to turn down. Looking back, Gutman compares it to a company that closes a factory, putting people out of jobs, to take advantage of tax breaks offered in elsewhere. To him and many others in Brooklyn at the time their move was a betrayal. LINK World Persian Gulf Too Hot for Humans by 2100By the end of this century, areas of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could threaten human life, according to a new study published Monday. Because of humanitys contribution to climate change, the authors wrote, some population centers in the Middle East are likely to experience temperature levels that are intolerable to humans, The New York Times reported. LINK National Budget Deal House Republican leaders introduced legislation just before midnight on Monday, finalizing a two-year budget agreement between Congressional leaders and the White House, The Washington Post reported. The introduction sets up a vote as early as Wednesday on the bipartisan budget deal which would increase military and domestic spending and avert a potentially catastrophic default in exchange for long-term spending cuts. LINK Vermont Farmers UpsetSome organic crop farmers are upset that some crops raised without soil in hydroponic greenhouses can carry the label organic. About 50 protested Monday at a Monday meeting in Stowe of the National Organics Standards Board. The protesters urged the board to recommend that hydroponic crops not carry the label, The Associated Press reported. LINK | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |