Bernie Sanders' bid for president is over but his campaign is active ... and going after Joel Freedm

Bernie Sanders’ bid for president is over but his campaign is active ... and going after Joel Freedman


U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid for the presidency is over. Again. But the democratic socialist’s agenda marches on. Again.

This time, the remnants of Sanders’ campaign are waging a social media pressure war, slamming former Hahnemann University Hospital owner Joel Freedman for keeping the facility closed during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s a throwback to when Sanders joined nurses and health-care workers last summer to protest the hospital’s closure.

Text messages sent from the Bernie 2020 campaign to people in the Philadelphia area last weekend put Freedman, a millionaire private equity investor from Los Angeles, on blast for closing the hospital and balking at reopening it during the crisis without a substantial payment from the city.

“Now, as our city faces the coronavirus pandemic, we are in desperate need of hospital beds and treatment centers. Joel Freedman is putting thousands of lives on the line,” reads the text, which links to a petition launched by Councilmember Helen Gym calling on Freedman to reopen the hospital.

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