Thursday, July 04, 2019

Some Tweets from Bernie Sanders


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    Forth and final parade of the day in Pella, IA with
  • 40 million Americans live in poverty. 500,000 people will sleep on the street tonight. 34 million people don’t have health insurance. I, for one, don’t think we should be spending tens of millions of dollars driving tanks through downtown D.C.
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  • Happy Independence Day! Together, we will continue building the kind of nation based on love and justice we know we can become.
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    Ames, IA Independence Day Parade with
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    First parade of the day down — 3 to go. in Slater Iowa
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    The crowd at a Des Moines field office opening. Packed and sweltering enough volunteers were passing water through the crowd before the end of his ~20 min speech. No one left early and many sticking around for a photo with Sanders
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    So it’s torrential rain outside and we headed to our Polk County Field Office to meet volunteers. We expected a few dozen. More than 200 people showed up to see
  • It was a pleasure to meet with University of Iowa adjunct professors with this morning. They are fighting against low salaries and have been fighting for a union for over two years. I stand with them in their struggle.
     
  • Join us live at HQ with and for our discussion and response to middle ground media bias and today's latest polls
  • Every person with a disability deserves the right to a good job that pays a living wage. Together, we will end the sub-minimum wage for workers with disabilities and guarantee these rights for all.
  • Join us live in Des Moines for a roundtable on immigration. We must end the dehumanization of those at the border who seek asylum. The time is long overdue for an overhaul of our immigration system.
  • We have accepted a warped sense of priorities which says America can always find enough money for war, but that there is never enough for infrastructure or education or nutrition programs. We are going to reject that idea and invest in our people.
  • I believe that the goal of life is to create community, to bring us together in love and compassion—to understand that it is my moral obligation to be concerned about your family, and yours to be concerned about mine. As human beings, we are in this together.
  • The Republican Party understands the implications of expanded participation by low-income citizens in the political process. That is why they work so hard to prevent it. But we will defeat them, and protect voting rights everywhere.
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    . on his $18 million Q2 fundraising total, where teachers were the profession that contributed the most & Walmart was the largest employer of those who donated: “I am enormously proud and humbled to receive so much support from the working class of this country.”
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    Iowa City I see you and I am so damn proud of you! More than 800 strong tonight. This is what organizing looks like! This is what our next president looks like!
     
  • Whether it is fixing a broken criminal justice system, or massive disparities in the availability of financial services, or health disparities, or environmental disparities, or educational disparities, we will create a nation in which all people are treated equally.
  • Today marks 55 years since the Civil Rights Act was signed. This is a moment for us to remember that the struggle for civil rights and human dignity is a struggle not of a single year or decade, but of a lifetime, which must be fought by every generation.