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David__77

(23,420 posts) Sat Jan 26, 2019, 01:58 AM Jan 2019

Bernie Sanders draws a crowd and gets a standing ovation in North Charleston on Tuesday

Bernie Sanders appeared as spirited as ever during a speech at a church banquet hall in North Charleston Tuesday afternoon.

Over the course of 20 minutes, Sanders railed against the federal government shutdown, President Donald Trump, and the political influence of "oligarchs" and "billionaires" like the Koch brothers, who are known to pour their vast fortune into conservative, corporate-friendly causes.

"We have a president who is a pathological liar," Sanders said. "This is a president who is intentionally and purposefully trying to divide our people up based on the color of their skin, where they were born, their sexual orientation."

The Vermont senator has served an independent since he was first elected to Congress in 1991, but caucuses with Democrats in the Senate. He previously served as the mayor of Burlington, Vt. for eight years.

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https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2019/01/23/bernie-sanders-draws-a-crowd-and-gets-a-standing-ovation-in-north-charleston-on-tuesday

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Bernie Sanders draws a crowd and gets a standing ovation in North Charleston on Tuesday (Original Post) David__77 Jan 2019 OP

one notices the sign is "our revolution" and not the democratic party nt msongs Jan 2019 #1

I refuse to bash Bernie, but I can bash Nina Turner, right? ProudLib72 Jan 2019 #2

msongs

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1. one notices the sign is "our revolution" and not the democratic party nt

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ProudLib72

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2. I refuse to bash Bernie, but I can bash Nina Turner, right?

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Sat Jan 26, 2019, 02:45 AM

Jan 2019

Our Revolution keeps consultant who made anti-immigrant comments https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/22/our-revolution-sanders-turner-figaro-603410

Nina Turner: It Is Not Our Job to Fit Into the Democratic Establishment https://www.thenation.com/article/nina-turner-it-is-not-our-job-to-fit-into-the-democratic-establishment/

CM: Will the group be endorsing non-Democrats?

NT: You know what, yes. We are open to it. And for me, I’ve also heard the senator say this lately too: Let’s put the political affiliation to the side. If there is a Republican or a Libertarian or Green Party person that believes in Medicare for all, then that’s our kind of person. If there’s somebody that believes that Citizens United needs to be overturned, that we need the 28th amendment to the Constitution that declares that money, corporate money, is not speech and that corporations should not have more speech than Mrs. Johnson down the street and Mr. Gonzalez around the corner, then that’s our kind of people.

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