Politico reporter Holly Otterbein spent weeks watching tapes of all of Bernie Sanders’ 1980s TV show “Bernie Speaks with the Community.” The show ran weekly for a couple of years when Sanders was the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Otterbein seems to think the overall impression is that 80s Bernie Sanders had a populist charm and humor that doesn’t always come through these days, however she realizes that everything he said back then is a goldmine for oppo research now:
