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Students, nurses, and activists rally Saturday at California Democratic Convention to support Bernie
On Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016, students, registered nurses, and other union and community members will rally at the California Democrats State Convention to show support for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders.
One key goal Saturday is to urge California Democratic superdelegates to pledge to honor the will of the state’s Democratic voters should Sanders win their popular vote in the Golden State’s June primaries.
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More than 2,000 Democratic Party activists, legislators, leaders, and superdelegates will be convening in San Jose. California represents a total of 546 delegate votes toward the Democratic Party nomination, with 71 of those being superdelegates. To win the party’s nomination, 2,383 votes are needed.
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“Now is a golden opportunity to really prioritize, finally, the needs of the 99%. As nurses, we see every day that people are just in survival mode. Nobody can afford food, shelter, clothing, medicine, healthcare, education. And as responsible social and patient advocates, we can’t just watch it and do nothing about it — especially when we've identified Bernie Sanders as the vehicle for political revolution for the people. It’s exciting for the nurses, and it's exciting for me, because this is what we've been working toward for years.”
National Nurses United is the largest union of nurses in the country, with 185,000 members in 50 states, and was the first national organization to endorse Sanders, in August 2015.
http://www.highlandnews.net/news/political/students-nurses-and-activists-rally-saturday-at-california-democratic-convention/article_0e5702c0-dcdc-11e5-a29a-9f1beca7eb9c.html
