Bernie Sanders, stating that that is the time “for his prophetic voice to be heard throughout our crisis-ridden nation”.
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Sanders said Monday that the rhetoric was his way of pushing reporters to cover more substance.
Those in attendance seemed to be as fired up about the campaign as Sanders himself and often gave the candidate thunderous applause after he delivered his strongest lines.
Standing outside Sanders’ event in Conway, Rebeca Valente, a 22-year old from Boston, said she turns to Facebook for news on Sanders, not traditional media.
“I endorse Brother Bernie Sanders because he is a long distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice for over 50 years“, Dr. Cornel West said of the Senator from Vermont.
Sanders suggested redistributing wealth as one way to fix the economy.
“We need an economy that works for the middle class and working families, not just the billionaires”, said Sanders.
Meanwhile, he said, the Republicans recently passed a federal budget that throws 27 million people off of health insurance, makes $90 billion over 10 years in cuts to nutrition programs while providing over $250 billion in tax breaks to the top two-tenths of one percent of the wealthiest people in the country. He has a town hall scheduled for 5 p.m.in Salem. Other plans include increasing and expanding Social Security by lifting the cap on taxable income.
And on Monday in Berlin, Sanders complained that journalists weren’t talking about serious issues “because big money owns media”.
Sanders also hearkened back to civil unrest situations in Baltimore, Maryland and Ferguson, Missouri, saying that police “should be part of the community”, and not seen as “an invading army”. Do you think you do that enough?
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“What America needs to understand about black voters is that we’re not a monolithic [block] and that we all don’t listen to or follow under lockstep of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson”, said Stacey Hopkins, an African-American who backs Sanders and volunteers for a “Women For Bernie” support group in Atlanta. “It’s very palpable. This is an energy and enthusiasm that I have never felt before”.
