2016 Postmortem
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(9,687 posts)Martha Abbott, a founder of the Liberty Union party and longtime political ally, recalls that Sanders was devoted to Levi. He had partial custody of his son, and as a single father he struggled to make ends meet he wrote freelance articles for publications and was for a time unemployed.
He was very committed to being a parent, Abbott said. And he scraped together the money to take care of him.
Sanders was very employable at the time, she says, but for a few years he was trying out different things.
He wanted to do more writing, and I think he wanted to be there for Levi and spend time with him, and there were some choices involved, Abbott said.
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devoted to his son,committed to being a parent, good job bernie