Sanders's Wall Street Attacks Strike Home in New Hampshire Town
- In hardscrabble Rochester, economic anger seeks an outlet
- `Not as many people went to jail as probably should have'
Tri-City Bicycles owner Mark Traeger stands in his shop in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Feb. 6, 2016.
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Five-dollar bills in the cash register at Tri-City Bicycles in Rochester, New Hampshire, send customers a message stamped in red ink: “Not 2 B used 2 bribe politicians.”
Owner Mark Traeger’s frustration with what he calls a rigged economy has become a central theme in the Democratic presidential primary. Tri-City can’t park profits overseas to dodge taxes. It can’t pony up the big campaign contributions or the rich speaking fees over which insurgent candidate Bernie Sanders has been attacking Hillary Clinton.