Early on in his eight years as the mayor of this city, when he typically dressed in a tieless ensemble of work boots and corduroys, Bernie Sanders one day left City Hall and found a ticket on the windshield of his rusty Volkswagen Dasher. ............
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He was, said Bruce Seifer, a friend of Sanders, an economic aide in his administration and one of many people who know him who told me this, "frugal." Seifer paused and considered the right way to put it. "That's a nice way of saying he's a cheap son of a.......
The champion of the underclass and castigator of "the 1 percent" has found himself in the socioeconomic penthouse of his rhetorical boogeymen. This development, seen mostly as the result of big bucks brought in by the slate of books he's put out in the past few years, predictably has elicited snarky pokes, partisan jabs and charges of hypocrisy. The millionaire socialist!
"I wrote a best-selling book," he told the New York Times after he releasing the last 10 years of his tax returns. "If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too." Asked on Fox News if this sort of success was "the definition of capitalism," he bristled. "You know, I have a college degree," he said.
Sanders' current financial portrait is not only some stroke-of-luck windfall, it's also the product (with the help of his wife) of decades of planning. The upward trajectory from that jalopy of his to his relative riches now-as off-brand as it is for a man who once said he had "no great desire to be rich"-is the product of years of middle-class striving, replete with credit card debt, real estate upgrades and an array of investment funds and retirement accounts.
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