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After damning evidence of election fraud by the group [[ACORN]], Sanders joined six Democrat Senators that voted to continue funding ACORN. The vote failed, and ACORN was stripped of funding in the Senate.<ref>Isenstadt, Alex (September 14, 2009). [https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27153.html "Senate denies ACORN funding"]. Politico website.</ref> Bill Wilson of [[Americans for Limited Government]] said, "The ACORN Housing Corporation has long been pushing the very loose-lending policies that helped destroy the housing industry. And now it has been exposed for working with prostitutes, as well. Yet, these seven Senators [Sanders] have knowingly voted to keep sending taxpayer money to a highly corrupt organization of pushers and pimps," <ref>Americans for Limited Government (September 15, 2009). [http://politicomafioso.blogspot.com/2009/09/alg-condemns-7-senators-for-voting-to.html "ALG condemns 7 Senators for voting to continue funding ACORN, calls for complete cutoff of federal funds"]. Americans for Limited Government website. Reprinted at Politico Mafioso website on September 16, 2009.</ref>
After damning evidence of election fraud by the group [[ACORN]], Sanders joined six Democrat Senators that voted to continue funding ACORN. The vote failed, and ACORN was stripped of funding in the Senate.<ref>Isenstadt, Alex (September 14, 2009). [https://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27153.html "Senate denies ACORN funding"]. Politico website.</ref> Bill Wilson of [[Americans for Limited Government]] said, "The ACORN Housing Corporation has long been pushing the very loose-lending policies that helped destroy the housing industry. And now it has been exposed for working with prostitutes, as well. Yet, these seven Senators [Sanders] have knowingly voted to keep sending taxpayer money to a highly corrupt organization of pushers and pimps," <ref>Americans for Limited Government (September 15, 2009). [http://politicomafioso.blogspot.com/2009/09/alg-condemns-7-senators-for-voting-to.html "ALG condemns 7 Senators for voting to continue funding ACORN, calls for complete cutoff of federal funds"]. Americans for Limited Government website. Reprinted at Politico Mafioso website on September 16, 2009.</ref>
===Handshake with dictator===
On April 15, 2016, Sanders shook hands with former [[Marxist]] dictator of [[Bolivia]], [[Evo Morales]] during a meeting at the [[Vatican City|Vatican]].<ref>https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-vatican-evo-morales-bolivia-democracy-latin-america-socialism-451033</ref> Morales was the president of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019, establishing [[authoritarian]] [[socialist]] policies including an expansion of government power and abolition of term limits.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/03/evo-morales-bolivia-president-election-limits</ref> The Morales regime was overthrown in 2019 by the people of Bolivia through protests attended by tens of thousands followed by the Bolivia's first democratic election in decades, electing [[Jeanine Áñez]] as president in a landslide victory.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/news/bolivias-jeanine-anez-from-president-to-prisoner/</ref>
==Ideology==
==Ideology==