Jeff Merkley and state House Speaker Tina Kotek address the convention along with Sanders, Michelle Obama and Sen.
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As Oregon’s Democratic and Republican delegations were crisscrossing the country to and from their parties’ national conventions Friday, Virginia Sen.
Tina Kotek, a 1984 graduate of Dallastown Area High School, spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Monday evening.
OR state Rep. Shemia Fagan, a pledged Clinton delegate, said Wasserman Schultz’s resignation should help bring Sanders’ supporters back into the party’s fold.
“It was a little overwhelming, but a huge honor”, Kotek told KOIN 6 News via satellite. “And I have her back because I know she stands with all of us”.
“One of the things that we see around the country is, particularly in places like OR, we’re moving progressive policies forward and who’s in the White House will matter for that”, she said. “It’s not what you saw last week with the divisiveness of the RNC”.
In April Merkley became the first and only sitting senator to endorse Vermont’s Bernie Sanders. But “if they would start putting people in places at the DNC that conducted themselves with some kind of integrity, that’s what they need to do”, he said. “That is exactly what we’re going to do when we follow the vision of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and elect her”.
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Sanders supporters from OR have had mixed feelings about his endorsement for Clinton but many agree their focus needs to stay on defeating Republican nominee Donald Trump in November.
