2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumClinton hires Sanders' top student organizer
Hillary Clintons team is moving to shore up an area where she urgently needs help the campaign has hired Bernie Sanders' director of student organizing to serve as her national campus and student organizing director, a Clinton official confirmed to POLITICO.
Kunoor Ojha is the Clinton campaigns first major hire from the Sanders campaign, and her move to a role where she will work with the state teams to mobilize young voters represents a significant step in the former secretary of states outreach to the Vermont senators most ardent backers
Sanders routinely outperformed her by massive margins among the youngest voting age groups, and Clinton has repeatedly said that she admires Sanders strength among that group. The demographic has provided the backbone for Sanders support, and his stump speech often directly insists that this kind of support means his campaign represents the future.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/clinton-hires-sanders-student-organizer-224166#ixzz4BBv316Re
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grossproffit
(5,591 posts)auntpurl
(4,311 posts)Hopefully Bernie can be the surrogate ambassador on college campuses while he's stumping for Hillary.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Was I lied to?
emulatorloo
(44,133 posts)But that's nothing new.
Jackilope
(819 posts)It is evident the origin is within HRC camp.
DianaForRussFeingold
(2,552 posts)"MAKE TUITION FREE AT PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
STOP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM MAKING A PROFIT ON STUDENT LOANS
SUBSTANTIALLY CUT STUDENT LOAN INTEREST RATES.
ALLOW AMERICANS TO REFINANCE STUDENT LOANS AT TODAYS LOW INTEREST RATES.
ALLOW STUDENTS TO USE NEED-BASED FINANCIAL AID AND WORK STUDY PROGRAMS TO MAKE COLLEGE DEBT FREE.
FULLY PAID FOR BY IMPOSING A TAX ON WALL STREET SPECULATORS."
"In a highly competitive global economy, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country and our future, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That shortsighted path to the future must end."
https://berniesanders.com/issues/its-time-to-make-college-tuition-free-and-debt-free/
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)They may need this person to count those magic votes in California that would change... Nothing.