[pe2-image src=”https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-SpEmemqZVDI\/Vv_35bv4sPI\/AAAAAAAAA8U\/Npi6yE9iZsk459KFoVeAPtQfVy9I70x1wCHM\/s144-c-o\/20160401_1200%2BBernie%2Bin%2Bthe%2BBronx%2B%2528TheAtlantic%2529.jpg” href=”https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/102930737536139888016\/Campaign2016V3#6269001772396228850″ caption=”Bernie in the Bronx By Russell Berman, The Atlantic(Apr. 1, 2016) — BRONX, New York\u2014Mercer Jabul sat quietly at the very top of a hill at St. Mary\u2019s Park, huddled underneath a hooded white coat as she waited, with an estimated 18,500 others, for Bernie Sanders to arrive in the South Bronx. A black woman in her 60s, Jabul is devoted to Sanders and said she has plans to vote for him in New York\u2019s April 19 primary. But she wasn\u2019t positive she was going to vote at all. It had been quite a while.\u201cI haven\u2019t voted since Mayor Lindsay!\u201d she told me. That would be John Lindsay, the long-ago New York mayor who made unsuccessful bids for president and Senate. He left City Hall in 1973, and the last time he appeared on a ballot was 1980. He died in 2000. http:\/\/publicskeleton.com\/media\/?p=852″ type=”image” alt=”20160401_1200 Bernie in the Bronx (TheAtlantic).jpg” ] Bernie in the Bronx
\n By Russell Berman, The Atlantic<\/p>\n
(Apr. 1, 2016) — BRONX, New York\u2014Mercer Jabul sat quietly at the very top of a hill at St. Mary\u2019s Park, huddled underneath a hooded white coat as she waited, with an estimated 18,500 others, for Bernie Sanders to arrive in the South Bronx. A black woman in her 60s, Jabul is devoted to Sanders and said she has plans to vote for him in New York\u2019s April 19 primary. But she wasn\u2019t positive she was going to vote at all. It had been quite a while.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t voted since Mayor Lindsay!\u201d she told me. That would be John Lindsay, the long-ago New York mayor who made unsuccessful bids for president and Senate. He left City Hall in 1973, and the last time he appeared on a ballot was 1980. He died in 2000.<\/p>\n