With all due respect to an elder statesman, you had your chance Bernie. And you made your statement. Enough.

And kept silent because keeping silent was in their best interests. Don't expect them to keep silent if Bernie wins our nomination, there will be wikileaks out of nowhere.

while Bernie - or any other candidate - would have wiped the floor with Trump because he had no such baggage.

Like every other politician, Bernie has baggage - and he seems to have more than most. The fact that it wasn't thrown in his face was not evidence of his invincibility, but rather proof that they didn't take him seriously enough to bother using it against him.

DO. NOT. EVEN. THINK. THAT.


And anyway, Bernie isn't a democrat is he. Dems better not let him run as he isn't even a DEMOCRAT !!!!!

"If I run again" Sounds like something tRump would say

Shameful and certainly not walking his 'talk'. I bet Jane's daughter wasn't a victim of pay inequity.

ELECTED.

Now that they are in office, they have to do their jobs and most will.

As to this guy, sigh is all I have.

If?

confessions in the morning! From accusations that we were fantasizing online abuse in 2016 to admitting that the abuse occurred. It's indeed a step forward but 'we'll do better next time' rings hollow.

It's all about supporting our Democratic candidates and ultimately our nominee in 2020. That's how we save the country. As for derailing a 2020 White House bid? That train has already left the station.

Really...any woman who felt.....

Classic non-apology/apology: we didn't do anything wrong but if you feel that you were offended/abused, we're sorry.

Brittle, hollow. Too late. Wa-a-ay too late.

And this on the back of refusing to admit there was a problem in real time, accusing women of making it all up because we 'were voting with our vaginas.'

That's not something you forget.

having pay inequity as yet another issue....pay inequity!

Double standards — only Democrats are held accountable for what he claims are his ideas or standards, but he’s exempted.

We must all make sure

the aggressive culture...”

YES, that aggressive culture was very evident even from his senior staffers like Jeff Weaver, who just oozed it on TV. I’m sure his demeanor was emulated.....

No thanks.

Issues kept cropping up and Bernie always seem to wash his hands of them.

This is not an apology.

I'm a woman and I worked on Sanders campaign in Iowa.

come out with this letter now.

over 2 years ago?

they don't want the same thing happening if he runs again.

allegations of the women who have been harassed seriously.

We are finding out that some women DID complain and got blacklisted.

Not all women that work with abusers get abused, a woman may not strike their fancy, not intended as an insult, just Behavior that I have noticed men like that show.

Maybe if Bernie didn't look like he is planning to run again, the women would have quietly endured suffering over what happened to them. But with Bernie looking like he surely will run, they seem to have been forced forward. Dr. Ford took something like 25 years to go public with charges against Brett Kavanaugh, the long wait did not make one millisecond of what she said untrue, him being elevated to the highest court in the land was more than she could tolerate.

The movement was over two years old when she stood up against Kavanaugh. You seem to be trying to set special disclosure conditions for the women that are talking about issues in Bernie's 2016 campaign, that is what dismays me. Some women that have been assaulted may never come forward, all of us have read stories about women admitting that they were sexually assaulted on their deathbeds. Most of the stuff around Bernie's campaign seem to be inappropriate language, but some women have said actual assaults took place and were ignored by higher ups. Maybe Bernie knew absolutely nothing about what was happening, but in that case, once should question his management and leadership abilities.

They want him to do better for 2020, now that he's hinting at running again, but they made sure to wait to go public until after his 2018 re-election campaign, so they didn't hurt that. Why now is because now is the least harmful time for Sanders, yet the best time for these women to expect an amelioration in the future.

Of course, according at least one accuser, Sanders knew in 2016, and instead of anything happening, she was blacklisted, and Jane Sanders welcomed this woman's harasser with open arms to the Gathering last Nowember. The others were perhaps afraid of simlar consequences if they went public in 2016.

I wonder why this story didn't gain any traction in the press when it was first reported two years ago.

Didn’t he once write rape fantasy type books/stories?

Attitude in any organization comes from the top. Smh.

Yuck.

or a vote.

Late in his life, Ted Kennedy said that he really regretted being a roadblock when a republican president (either Nixon or Ford) proposed a form of national healthcare. His regret was that though not what he believed should have happen, if national Heathcare was implemented at that time many people who died may have been saved. To me, that is contrition.