Bernie heads for Africa...
Vermont's junior senator, Independent Bernie Sanders, is departing on a 6 AM flight to Africa Saturday morning.
Just got off the phone with him from Capitol Hill.
He's going with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY). First stop will be Ghana to take an up-close and personal look at child labor in the cocoa fields and "to see to what degree indentured children are being used to manufacture products which come into this country as chocolate."
"This is consistent with legislation Sen. Harkin and I passed a number of years ago," he told us, "and other pieces of legislation as well."
Be on a plane at 6 AM, he told us.
"The issue of child labor and the fact that you have very young kids who are working horrendous hours and not going to schools is an international problem," said Ol' Bernardo, "and it’s one that has concerned me for a number of years. So we’ll take a look and see what’s going on in the chocolate industry."
How sweet of him, eh?
The trip will last a week with additional stops in Morocco and the Ivory Coast.
It's a year and a day since Bernie Sanders took his oath of office as a United States Senator.
Time flies.
Bernie gets a free trip to africa. How nice.
Posted by: Nice Job | Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 06:38 AM
Maybe he will stay there.
Posted by: JPC | Saturday, January 05, 2008 at 10:08 AM
maybe we can pawn you off on the africans, clown.
Posted by: bigbadbrad | Monday, January 07, 2008 at 10:44 AM
bbb, your hiatus from thius site has been nice. welcome back
Posted by: JPC | Monday, January 07, 2008 at 11:53 AM
Thanks, I missed you too.
Posted by: bigbadbrad | Monday, January 07, 2008 at 02:18 PM