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Saint Bernie

So apparently, in 2016, Saint Bernie refused to fly commercial. He wouldn't make campaign stops for Clinton unless he was provided with a private jet. That kind of gives the lie to his claims this year about taking on the fossil fuel industry.
He also apparently refused to appear at Clinton campaign rallies on the same stage as anyone who had not endorsed him in the primaries.
Typically, I don't think Democrats should speak ill of other Democrats, but (a) Sanders is rather ostentatiously not a Democrat, though he wants to leverage party resources; and (b) refusing to concede in 2016 when success was mathematically impossible; and (c) then lobbying the very superdelegates he had criticized to overturn the people's will and install him as candidate, despite losing by over 4 million votes, was unconscionably egotistical.
“We would try to fight it as much as possible because of cost and availability of planes, but they would request [a jet] every time,” one of those sources said. “We would always try to push for commercial. ... At the campaign, you’re constantly trying to save like 25 cents.”
"Prior to working out the logistics of Sanders’ travel, “our working assumption was that 90 percent of the time it would be commercial,” said another person familiar with the matter. “If he was trying to hop from city to city in a particular state and [commercial] didn’t work, we were open to” chartering a plane.
"But that idea did not go over well with the Sanders camp, according to this person.
“At that time, getting him on board — no pun intended —and his followers engaged for her, was a big priority,” said one former Clinton staffer, who explained that campaign leadership, including campaign manager Robby Mook, decided it was something Sanders wouldn’t budge on, so the campaign approved the requests to keep peace with the senator. . . .
"The travel details weren’t the only point of tension with Sanders. At his rallies for Clinton, Sanders sometimes only wanted people who had endorsed him in the primaries to speak when he would appear, a request which frustrated the Clinton campaign, according to a former Clinton staffer and another person familiar with the matter."
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POLITICO.COM|BY DANIEL LIPPMAN
Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights
The Vermont senator’s 2016 travel as a Clinton surrogate became “a running joke in the office.“

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