During a 1972 gubernatorial debate, Democrat Tom Salmon tells Liberty Union Party candidate Bernie Sanders, “I think Bernard would be a little more comfortable running for the Congress of the United States this year, in terms of the issues which he thinks are paramount in this campaign.”

This article was republished in the Seven Days online archive with permission from the owner of Chittenden Magazine, a monthly magazine in circulation 1969-1973.

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