Opinion: Bernie Sanders’s week goes from bad to worse
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a She the People voter forum in Houston on Wednesday. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 25 at 9:45 AM Things aren’t going so well these days for Sen. Bernie Sanders . First, he opened himself up to charges of hypocrisy when the candidate who has excoriated millionaires turned out to be one, as his tax returns revealed.
For many in the audience, that was insufficient. “Come on!” a woman shouted from the back, as others began to jeer and boo. Second, Sanders’s tone-deafness really makes Monday’s proposal to let felons still behind bars vote seem like crass pandering. Rather than make an extreme proposal, which if anything undercuts legitimate proposals to re-enfranchise felons who have served their time, on an issue virtually no one is clamoring to hear, he might consider a bold move similar to a plan put forward at the same summit by Sen. Kamala D. Harris .
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