Sanders' early life in Brooklyn taught lessons, some tough
NEW YORK (AP) ” Back on Brooklyn College’s red brick campus this winter to launch his second bid for the White House, Bernie Sanders set aside rhetoric for a few minutes to acknowledge the neighborhood where he grew up.The irascible Vermont senator recalled that his father had come to Brooklyn as an immigrant “without a nickel in his pocket.” Arguments over money in the family’s 3 ½-room apartment, within walking distance of the campus, taught Sanders early on what it meant to live […]
