Sanders touts 'political revolution,' Clinton decries gun violence X-posted from LBN

The story has a fair amount of detail --from the 'paper of the state"---or something like that.



Sanders touts 'political revolution,' Clinton decries gun violence

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/sanders-touts-political-revolution-clinton-decries-gun-violence-b99696702z1-373938321.html




Bernie Sanders, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont, and Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, are locked in a battle for 86 elected delegates and 10 superdelegates at stake in the April 5 primary. Credit: Associated Press

Yesterday 10:23 p.m.




By Bill Glauber, Annysa Johnson and Ashley Luthern of the Journal Sentinel

Bernie Sanders brought his "political revolution" to big rallies in Appleton and West Allis Tuesday, while Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton went to an inner-city Milwaukee church to confront the pain inflicted by gun violence.

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After blitzing the state over two days, Clinton is headed to New York Wednesday to open her campaign for the delegate-rich state's April 19 primary. New York appears to be a must-win for Clinton, the state's former U.S. senator. Wisconsin is widely viewed to be a Sanders-friendly state.

Sanders has events scheduled Wednesday in Kenosha, Madison and Onalaska before heading to New York for a planned rally Thursday.

Neither campaign has announced future events in Wisconsin and neither candidate has yet confirmed they'll attend Saturday night's Democratic Party dinner in Milwaukee.

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Clinton rallied supporters in Green Bay and La Crosse. But her most emotional event occurred at Tabernacle Community Baptist Church in Milwaukee, where she led a forum about gun violence prevention. There, she called for tighter gun laws, enhanced police training and more support for young African-American men who are most at risk to become victims or perpetrators of violence.

"The epidemic of gun violence spares no one but it is concentrated in areas that are short on hope and where we still face the effects of systemic racism," Clinton said.

She joined the Rev. Don Darius Butler, U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, Geneva Reed-Veal and Annette Nance-Holt at the historically black church. ......................

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At one point during the forum, Milwaukee mother Freda Bogan cried out in grief. Her eldest son was shot and killed in Mississippi in 2000, just weeks after Bogan had returned to her home state from Wisconsin to take care of her mother who had cancer.

Clinton asked to speak with Bogan after the event ................