During the dog days of August way back in 2003, when even politics took a few days off, an upstart candidate began to make waves in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
He was little known outside of Vermont, where he began his political career by spearheading a grassroots campaign to stop a condominium development on Lake Champlain, site of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) third home (he won, a bike path went in instead). The upstart went on to become the state’s five-time governor, the longest-serving in its history.
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