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| Bernie activists implore Vermont Sen. Sanders to consider leading new party |
| 2017-08-31 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] Grass-roots activists are ramping up pressure on Sen. Bernard Sanders to appear at a town hall meeting next month to discuss launching a new progressive party and severing ties with the Democrats. Nick Brana, founder of Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, said in an email blast on Wednesday that "progressives across the country are waiting to see if Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... will sit down with the working people who fought and sacrificed for him in 2016" and also said the group could reschedule. The email comes two weeks after the group sent Mr. Sanders and members of his staff a letter informing him that activists plan to deliver 50,000 signatures to his congressional office on Friday, Sept. 8, asking him to become the face of a new party and to attend a "Draft Bernie Town Hall" event at a three-day "Convergence Conference" that is slated to kickoff that day at American University. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 Like Bill the Clenis, he already has a corrupt wife, he can call it the Socialist Democratic Leadership Councilâ„¢ |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-08-31 19:48 |
| #6 Hillary might just as well have had him dumped in Ft. Marcey Park, Bernie is politically dead. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-08-31 16:59 |
| #5 I shall send checks to this *and* CalExit! Go People's Party. Go free and independent nation of California... after we Nevadans liberate our ethnic cousins in the occupied northeastern counties of course. And Oregon does the same. And Arizona. And Mexico... |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2017-08-31 13:22 |
| #4 Nick Brana, founder of Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, said in an email blast on Wednesday that "progressives across the country are waiting to see if Bernie Sanders will sit down with the working people who fought and sacrificed for him in 2016" and also said the group could reschedule. Ralph Nader curiously unavailable? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-31 11:09 |
| #3 Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!!!! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-31 10:15 |
| #2 Bernie should run for Prez of Venezuela. Show 'em how to do socialism right! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-08-31 01:12 |
| #1 And here's another $300 waiting for your decision. |
| Posted by: Fairbanks 2017-08-31 00:57 |