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Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 02:08 PM Apr 2015

Bernie isn't the only Sanders running: Brother is on U.K. ballot/USA Today

Bravo for both of the Sanders brothers.

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/04/30/bernie-sanders-brother-green-party/

Name the candidate for office who decries a “large increase in the wealth and income of the very rich.”

Bernie Sanders for president? No. Try Larry Sanders, the independent Vermont senator’s older brother, who is the Green Party’s candidate for Parliament in southeast England.

The Guardian reports that Larry Sanders is running in next week’s British elections, hoping to represent Oxford West and Abingdon in Parliament. The brothers share the same populist philosophies and bear an uncanny resemblance, down to their wire-frame eyeglasses and slightly wild hair. (Though Larry’s is more gray and not white like Bernie’s.)

Larry Sanders moved to Oxford in 1969 and has been involved in party politics for 15 years, according to the Oxfordshire Green Party website. A social worker and lawyer by training, Sanders was elected to his county council in 2005 and re-elected in 2009.

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