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Bernie Sanders brings campaign to West Coast

Sanders continued his attack on Republicans, stating, “They want to cut or privatize Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut education, cut the Environmental Protection Agency”.

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“This is not democracy, this is oligarchy: This is a national disgrace”, said Sanders, expected to draw big crowds this weekend as he brings his campaign for the 2016 Democratic nomination to evening rallies in Seattle and Portland. Barrett said even if that were to happen, there’d be a silver lining, in that by simply being in the running, Sanders forces conversations that otherwise wouldn’t take place.

“I think there is growing unhappiness with establishment politics”, he said.

After Obama, “I don’t want to be projecting to anybody that this is a person we can trust without verifying that”, O’Shea said. Their efforts succeeded, however, in the late 1930s, once those immigrants and their children had been in the United States long enough to forge a more common culture with other immigrant and native-born groups.

I’m among millions of supporters who are enthusiastic about the clarity of his positions in taking on Wall Street, corporate power and economic inequality.

And it is reflected in widespread public support – as polls keep showing – for policies such as nationalised transport systems and utilities companies, proper investment in the material (as opposed to the financial) economy, and a focus on infrastructure and planning.

The 73-year-old self described “democratic socialist” is putting some bold proposals on the table. Sanders acknowledges a steep $70 billion pricetag.

Sanders is essentially playing the role of a George Bernard Shaw quote with which Sen. After hearing about Mr. Sanders from relatives in New England and agreeing with his message, he became involved in the candidate’s campaign.

Sunday’s rally for Vermont senator and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has been moved from the Veterans Memorial Coliseum to the Moda Center, in anticipation of a large crowd. He’s been accused of playing down the effects of racism by emphasizing the effects of classism – a more valid criticism to which Sanders, after his initial, grumpy response to protesters last month, has responded more recently by highlighting the racism of many police practices. Edelson said he’s not as anxious about a Dean Scream moment as he is about another factor often detrimental to candidates like Sanders: apathy among Edelson’s voting-age contemporaries. A writer from The Stranger asked if Sanders is saying he won’t run for president in November as an independent and warned that Seattle’s Trotskyist council member Kshama Sawant has said she won’t support him if he rules out such a race. Owner David Meinert has been critical of Sawant.

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