State Senator Julia Salazar received a fresh jolt of fundraising cash this week, with the East Brooklyn’s politician’s re-election campaign netting Senator Bernie Sanders’s official nod, amid a slate of eight state legislative candidates east of the Mississippi.

“I am writing to you today to ask if you can contribute to some excellent candidates running for state legislatures,” Senator Sanders said late on Monday to his mailing list, which netted him $33 million in the last month of his candidacy back in March, according to FEC filings. Sanders gave the thumbs up to Salazar, a charismatic DSA-endorsed politico who beat incumbent State Senator Martin Dilan in 2018, along with five fellow state legislators and three candidates who hope to join their rank this November.

Among those incumbents, Sanders also gave the nod to Mike Gianaris, a broad-faced New York State Senator who also represents part of neighboring Ridgewood. Gianaris is most notable these days for eagerly volunteering himself to vocally oppose Amazon’s notorious, currently scuttled, efforts to build a headquarters over in Long Island City back in 2019. Last year, the City reported that the effort also won Gianaris the first primary challenge of his decade-long career in Albany. A fellow named Justin Potter is leading this effort; a “unapologetically moderate” small businessman, according to his website— where he also fumes about Amazon’s abandoned “prospect of 25,000 jobs coming to our district.”