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Headline Roundup January 3rd, 2019

Bernie Sanders Staffers Allege 'Sexual Violence and Harassment' During 2016 Campaign

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Several staffers from Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential run allege that almost a dozen female aides were sexually harassed while working on the campaign and that their complaints were mishandled by superiors. Sanders apologized to the women during an interview on CNN, telling Anderson Cooper that he was unaware of the allegations because he "was a little bit busy running around the country, trying to make the case" for president.

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In February 2016, Giulianna Di Lauro, a Latino outreach strategist for Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential operation, complained to her supervisor that she had been harassed by a

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Sanders says he did not know about sexual harassment allegations during campaign
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said he was unaware at the time of allegations that aides working on his campaign experienced sexism and harassment in 2016.

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Oh My: Bernie Sanders Says He Was Too Busy To Address Sexual Harassment Claims Infesting His 2016 Campaign
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Politicians lie. Politicians are trash. And their acolytes are just as nasty. Oh yes, it seems the Me Too movement is about to claim another scalp: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

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