Bernie Sanders: Rahm Emanuel’s Re-Election Is Proof Citizens United Decision Stinks

In an talk with HuffPost Live Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) lamented a outcome of Chicago’s mayoral election

Sanders pronounced he upheld Cook County Commissioner Garcia since “he had put together a clever bloc of working-class people, blacks and whites and Hispanics, and that is what we need to do all over this country.”

He combined he was generally unhappy by a extreme inconsistency between a some-more than $23 million in debate income Emanuel lifted in a competition — income that bankrolled what the Chicago Tribune called a “nonstop stream” of TV adshedge account billionaire Ken Griffinbillionaire financial executive Michael Sacks

“[Garcia] was outspent in that choosing 5-, 6-, 7-to-1, and we am wondering either as a outcome of this terrible Citizens United decision

“So a doctrine of Chicago is, we know, large income put a lot of income into Rahm Emanuel. We’re saying this all over a country,” Sanders continued, “and unless we overturn this catastrophic Citizens United Supreme Court decision, we worry about a destiny of American democracy.”

While being drastically out-fundraised by Emanuel was positively a cause in Garcia’s loss, other domestic pundits have forked out a challenger, who was degraded by a domain of some-more than 64,000 votesto clear his devise for Chicagoand strike behind during Emanuel

Watch a talk above.

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