I’ve heard again from Peter Graumann, a retired documentary and news producer who actively supports the Sanders for President campaign.  He encourages all Bay Area Bernie supporters to contribute letters to the editor and blog posts published by newspapers and news broadcasters. He recently sent the below to the San Francisco Chronicle’s editorial staff:

It doesn’t matter what butter-soaked fair food a candidate eats, or how anti-establishment they pretend to be. What counts is which side they’re on when poor and working people struggle to survive.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has fought for labor his entire career. He’s not afraid to say what he believes, instead of what voters want to hear. “Since the mid-1980s there has been an enormous transfer of wealth from the middle class and the poor to the wealthiest people in this country,” Sanders says. “ That is unacceptable and that has got to change.”

Bernie’s congressional record includes several measures to effect that change:

• Introducing legislation which would invest $1 trillion over five years to modernize our country’s physical infrastructure, creating and maintaining at least 13 million good-paying jobs
• Opposed NAFTA, CAFTA, permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with China, the TPP and other free-trade agreements. These deals kill American jobs by shifting work overseas
• Co-introduced the Employ Young Americans Now Act to provide $5.5 billion in immediate funding to employ one million young Americans and would provide job training to hundreds of thousands of others.

Any candidate who calls himself a democratic socialist has to have guts to survive the corporate-sponsored PACs and big media. Bernie’s proven he has the program–and the cojones–to carry it out.

The header image was adapted from “Bernie Sanders Rally” by Flickr user Benjamin Kerensa, distributed under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0.