2016 Postmortem

Uncle Joe

(58,378 posts) Mon Apr 25, 2016, 06:40 AM Apr 2016

Thousands Expected at Bernie Sanders Rally in Hartford on Monday

Sen. Bernie Sanders will make a second campaign stop in Connecticut, this time on Monday morning in Hartford.

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The Democratic candidate took the stage at a rally Sunday night, before a crowd of about 10,000 people on the New Haven Green just after 7 p.m.

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Sanders told the crowd that something needs to be done about what he called the epidemic of opiate and heroin addiction. He called for a revolution in mental health treatment and used the topic to take a shot at Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, a Democrat.

"When people need mental health treatment they get it today, not six months from now," Sanders said. "Now in that context, I'm not quite sure why your governor has cut mental health treatment in Connecticut."

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"Connecticut is important, it has a lot of delegates, I want to win as many as possible," he said. "I believe if there is a large voter turnout on Tuesday we stand a good chance to win. If voter turnout is low, we probably won't win."

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Bernie-Sanders-Connecticut-Primary-Rally-New-Haven-376894381.html

There is a video on the link.

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TexasTowelie

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1. The reason why Malloy had to cut mental health treatment

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Mon Apr 25, 2016, 07:23 AM

Apr 2016

is because Connecticut is experiencing a severe budget deficit and has already laid off over 1,000 state employees with the number expected to hit over 2,000.

I guess that they could raise taxes, but GE has already announced that they are leaving the state and Aetna is also considering moving.

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