Sanders isn't close to being the poorest senator. Why make shyt up?
Actually he is. He's not taking corporate money like the rest. Biden use to be, but he's a corporate hack now who agrees with Republicans.
He's one of the poorest. Bernie is nowhere near rolling in dough.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-united-states-senate/?utm_term=.431746b33d19
Bernie Sanders is the 19th poorest member of the United States Senate
By
Philip Bump
April 14, 2016
Thursday night's debate, Bernie Sanders acquiesced -- but warned that they weren't going to be terribly interesting.
"You'll get them, yes," he said in response to the question. "Yeah, look, I don't want to get anybody very excited. They are very boring tax returns. No big money from speeches, no major investments. Unfortunately -- unfortunately, I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate. And that's what that will show."
We already knew that. Each year, members of Congress have to report their economic interests, data that's made public and compiled by
the Center for Responsive Politics. That data doesn't provide a hard number; it provides a range. (That's because the report itself asks for a range of values.)
At the top end of the spectrum are three Democrats, Mark Warner, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Blumenthal. (The most recent data is for the year 2014.) The 25th-richest member is Jeff Sessions of Alabama, whose average net worth was $7.5 million.
not a millionaire. On economic issues, he walks the walk. The only weird thing about his statement about his relative poverty during the debate -- Sanders is still worth more than ten times the actual poverty level -- is that he he dubbed his lower net worth as "unfortunate."
