Sanders Buys Lakefront Home for Nearly $600,000

Senator Bernie Sanders speaks next to his wife, Jane, during a Bloomberg Politics breakfast on the sidelines of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016.

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South Hero, Vt. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an advocate for the working people, has bought his third house for nearly $600,000.

Fresh off the presidential campaign trail, the self-described Democratic socialist bought a seasonal waterfront home in North Hero, Vermont, in the Lake Champlain islands, for $575,000, as first reported by Seven Days weekly newspaper.