Seeking Allies in Revolution, Sanders Backs Progressive Women for Congress

Bernie Sanders is asking his committed donor base—which has propelled him to fundraising records month after month—to also support three progressive U.S. House candidates in the 2016 election.

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The news comes, Politico notes, “just weeks after he faced friendly fire for not committing to fundraise for down-ballot Democrats.”

The candidates Sanders is backing are New York’s Zephyr Teachout, Nevada’s Lucy Flores, and Washington state’s Pramila Jayapal, all of whom are competing in primaries against more establishment Democrats. All three have endorsed the senator from Vermont in his presidential run, and all three embrace key planks of Sanders’ populist platform.

As Sanders puts it: “Throughout this campaign, I’ve told you that no candidate for president—not Bernie Sanders, not the greatest president you could possibly imagine—can take on the billionaire class alone.”

Of Teachout, Sanders wrote in a fundraising appeal: “Zephyr literally wrote the book on political corruption. She understands better than anybody how special interests try to buy off politicians, and she’s dedicated her life to fixing our broken political system.”

The Fordham University professor, who lost her bid for the Democratic Party nomination for governor of New York to Andrew Cuomo, is the author of 2014’s Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United.

Jayapal, a state senator and nationally renowned immigration lawyer, “helped lead the fight for paid sick leave and a $15 minimum wage in Seattle,” Sanders noted. “She’s fought for immigrant rights, opposed the war in Iraq, and worked to protect Social Security.”

And Flores, he wrote, is “one of the most courageous people I’ve met during this campaign.”