The marriage certificate of Bernard Sanders and Mary Jane Driscoll (nee O'Meara), dated 27 May 1988, lists his father as 'Elias Sanders' and his mother as 'Dorothy Glassberg'. New York's extracted marriage index records a marriage in the Bronx on 28 July 1934 between Elias Sanders and Dora Glassberg. Elias Sanders' petition for naturalization, dated 27 October 1927, indicted he'd been born in the town or village of Stopice in Hapsburg Galicia, that he'd arrived in the United States on 26 May 1921, that he was currently resident in Brooklyn, and that his occupation was 'merchant'. His identity was attested to by Max Altberg and Benjamin Carr, who identified themselves as citizens of the United States employed in Brooklyn, NY as, respectively, a barber and a salesman. The Department of Labor attests that one Elias Sanders did enter the United States on 11 June 1921 under the name 'Eliasz Gitman'. The name 'Sanders' appears to have been adopted ca. 1923. The 1940 Census returns finds Eli Sanders living on 26th St. in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn with his wife and five year old son, employed as a wholesale salesman of paint. By one account "Sheepshead Bay is mostly residential. Low-density, one-and-two-family attached and semi-attached houses are common near the western and eastern edges of the neighborhood. Higher-density condominiums and co-ops are more common near Ocean Avenue, at the center of the neighborhood.". The family would have another child the following year. That child enrolled at Brooklyn College in 1959. Four-year institutions enrolled 640,000 freshmen in 1959, or about 25% of the 1941 birth cohort. His older brother was born in April 1935, completed a degree at Brooklyn College in 1956, and was as of 1958 enrolled at Harvard Law School. Eli and Dora Sanders died not long after, and it's a reasonable wager their older son provided some of the means for his brother to complete a degree - not at Brooklyn College, but at the University of Chicago.
Princess Spreading Bull isn't the only poseur in the race.
Not only is not from the "working class," he's also never really worked a day in his life. He's had three (?) wives (or relationships) where the women supported him. His current wife was the president of some small liberal arts college in Vermont, that she managed to run into bankruptcy. Not the greatest resume.
Not only is not from the "working class," he's also never really worked a day in his life.
What are you talking about?
He had a series of wage jobs prior to age 40, but was a lousy earner and had no trade. He was only briefly married during that run of years, but she disposed of him because... he was a lousy earner. He fathered a ba*tard child around about 1971, but he was never married to the mother, and it's doubtful she ever gave him a dime. He married his current wife in 1988, at which point he'd been Mayor of Burlington for seven years. He was elected to Congress in 1990. The position of Mayor is salaried, as is that of a member of Congress. His wife was a social worker when he married her, and she brought three children to the marriage. It's doubtful her pay packet was larger than his, at least at the time they were married.
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The marriage certificate of Bernard Sanders and Mary Jane Driscoll (nee O'Meara), dated 27 May 1988, lists his father as 'Elias Sanders' and his mother as 'Dorothy Glassberg'. New York's extracted marriage index records a marriage in the Bronx on 28 July 1934 between Elias Sanders and Dora Glassberg. Elias Sanders' petition for naturalization, dated 27 October 1927, indicted he'd been born in the town or village of Stopice in Hapsburg Galicia, that he'd arrived in the United States on 26 May 1921, that he was currently resident in Brooklyn, and that his occupation was 'merchant'. His identity was attested to by Max Altberg and Benjamin Carr, who identified themselves as citizens of the United States employed in Brooklyn, NY as, respectively, a barber and a salesman. The Department of Labor attests that one Elias Sanders did enter the United States on 11 June 1921 under the name 'Eliasz Gitman'. The name 'Sanders' appears to have been adopted ca. 1923. The 1940 Census returns finds Eli Sanders living on 26th St. in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn with his wife and five year old son, employed as a wholesale salesman of paint. By one account "Sheepshead Bay is mostly residential. Low-density, one-and-two-family attached and semi-attached houses are common near the western and eastern edges of the neighborhood. Higher-density condominiums and co-ops are more common near Ocean Avenue, at the center of the neighborhood.". The family would have another child the following year. That child enrolled at Brooklyn College in 1959. Four-year institutions enrolled 640,000 freshmen in 1959, or about 25% of the 1941 birth cohort. His older brother was born in April 1935, completed a degree at Brooklyn College in 1956, and was as of 1958 enrolled at Harvard Law School. Eli and Dora Sanders died not long after, and it's a reasonable wager their older son provided some of the means for his brother to complete a degree - not at Brooklyn College, but at the University of Chicago.
Princess Spreading Bull isn't the only poseur in the race.
Not only is not from the "working class," he's also never really worked a day in his life. He's had three (?) wives (or relationships) where the women supported him. His current wife was the president of some small liberal arts college in Vermont, that she managed to run into bankruptcy. Not the greatest resume.
Not only is not from the "working class," he's also never really worked a day in his life.
What are you talking about?
He had a series of wage jobs prior to age 40, but was a lousy earner and had no trade. He was only briefly married during that run of years, but she disposed of him because... he was a lousy earner. He fathered a ba*tard child around about 1971, but he was never married to the mother, and it's doubtful she ever gave him a dime. He married his current wife in 1988, at which point he'd been Mayor of Burlington for seven years. He was elected to Congress in 1990. The position of Mayor is salaried, as is that of a member of Congress. His wife was a social worker when he married her, and she brought three children to the marriage. It's doubtful her pay packet was larger than his, at least at the time they were married.
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