Dick Van Dyke: Bernie Sanders ‘The Sanest Man in
America’
by Daniel Nussbaum 29 May 2016
Veteran actor Dick Van
Dyke introduced Bernie Sanders at
a campaign rally in Santa Barbara on Saturday, where he urged older voters to
cast their ballots for the insurgent Democrat presidential candidate and called
him “the sanest man in America.”
During brief introductory remarks at Santa Barbara City
college, the 90-year-old star of the Dick Van Dyke Show
said he had a “really important” message for older voters.
“Mostly I want to be here to talk to my generation,” Van
Dyke said, according
to the Hill. “I have a really important message for them. I was born
in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I’ve seen a lot of
politics. I was five years old when the stock market crashed; I lost
everything.”
“What I want to say to my contemporaries is, as Bernie
says, in the 50s and 60s, real democracy was really working from the bottom up,
like it’s supposed to. There were no economic crashes during those decades
because regulations were in place,” he added. “We need the person who can break
the stranglehold that corporate America has on this country right now.”
The actor introduced Sanders by describing him as “the
sanest man in America,” according
to the Washington Post.
Van Dyke was in his element as he danced a jig while he
waited for Sanders to take the stage. A fan-shot video (above) captured the
actor in apparently good spirits.
Van Dyke is just the latest celebrity to sing Sanders’s
praises ahead of California’s crucial June 7 primary. Actor Justin Long also
appeared at Saturday’s Santa Barbara rally, while actresses Rosario Dawson and Shailene
Woodley were in the middle of a get-out-the-vote
trip across the state in a borrowed RV.
Sanders has largely caught up to Democrat frontrunner
Hillary Clinton in California, pulling within just two points in the latest PPIC
poll released last week.
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke is
an actor in The Dick Van Dyke Show,
and a William Morris Endeavor
Entertainment client.
Note: Ari Emanuel is the
co-CEO & director for William Morris
Endeavor Entertainment, and Rahm I.
Emanuel’s brother.
Rahm I. Emanuel
is Ari Emanuel’s brother, a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago,
the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the
White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is the president of the Barack
Obama administration.
President Barack Obama adjusts Dick Van Dyke's tie during
the a reception at the White House. June
6, 2010
Source: White House
Newton N. Minow is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed
Pagano is a partner at Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, was a deputy assistant to the
president for legislative affairs for the Barack Obama administration,
and Patrick J. Leahy’s chief of staff.
Patrick J. Leahy’s
chief of staff was Ed Pagano, and is
a VT congressional delegation
senator.
Bernard Sanders is
a VT congressional delegation
senator, and the strategist & candidate for the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.
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