10/23 News Roundup – Bernie Brings His Message To Hundreds In Rollinsford, Sanders To Rally In Somerville & More
Happy Monday friends!
Plenty of news to sort through today so I’ll just start with Sanders in Rollinsford and go from there:
Sanders brings message on health care, education, taxes to hundreds in Rollinsford
Bernie Sanders was the keynote speaker for the Strafford County Democrats’ fall event, and he drew a large crowd, including many state Democrats.
The Martel Roberge American Legion Post was set up with 500 chairs, but Rollinsford Selectman Mike Rollo estimated 600 people were present.
Sanders talked about health care, education, workers’ wages and the politics of Washington.
“We can sit here and make fun of Donald Trump and that would be easy to do,” said Sanders. “What we need to be doing is focusing, and uniting so we can bring this country back to where it should be, to where all Americans have rights and not just the top tier. We need to not allow this administration to divide us on any level, not on race, religion, country of origin, color of skin or sexual orientation.”
Sanders said he came with good news and bad news out of Washington.
“The good news is that even though the Republican Senate has a 52-to-48 majority, in the last five months, they have tried and failed five times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. That would have made 20 million people lose health insurance.”
Sanders said health insurance is a right for every American. He said the answer is to expand Medicare to everyone and bring in a single-payer health system. He said other countries do it and spend 50 percent less per capita than we do now.
“The bad news is that the Republicans just passed a budget, the ugliest and most destructive budget ever passed in the history of the United States,” said Sanders. “It is a framework and not a done deal and we need to work to defeat it because it is a moral obscenity.”
If/when video becomes available, I’ll have it up!
In the meantime, the rest of the days news will be in the comments, including:
*Sanders To Seek Senate Re-Election As An In Dependent
*2018 Candidates Hit The Streets
*US prepping nuclear bombers for 24-hour ready alert status
*Jimmy Carter says he is willing to go to North Korea on peace mission
*California fires took thousands of homes. Now rent in hardest-hit areas is soaring
*Half a Million March in Massive Uprising Against Spanish Plan to Overtake Catalonia
*Pipeline Updates, Waters Protector News & More
Tips, Comments, Complaints, Etc!
In N.H. stop, Sanders says he’ll run for Senate re-election as an independent
I have to blockquote just one more excerpt from this article because its pretty telling as to why Bernie is kept around..
He’s not going to give them a new take on a way forward, etc, etc… he’s going to make a lot of money for their candidates, and that’s what matters. Until election time, when he’s not really a dem’.
If it helps to get Bernie’s message out, and helps to rally support to oppose the Republican tax plan, I’ll take it.
And a possible side benefit is that those candidates he’s helping raise money for will see some of the support that his ideas gain, and that’s good too.
But I see where you’re going, Bernie at a Dem fundraiser? The guy certain ‘resisting’ people constantly point out is “not a Democrat!!”? Follow the money.
Woo hooo! I’m in. Of course, we still have machines, but he has a real chance as an Indie. Feel bad for all those millenials that switched to vote for him and now have to switch back. But yeah, I’m already feeling myself waking up again. :O) No matter what, it’s definitely time to pour my heart into something political again!
Haha 🙂 Yah, I’m not quite ready to go away yet. Whenever I have the time and energy I’m going to do what I can. XO
Sanders to run as an independent in 2018
Ahhhhh, i thought the first one meant he was running as an Indie for Prez! LOL
From the way things look, Im of the belief that he will if he is going to run. Cruz and several others are likely to take on Trump, it could be a 3 or 4 way race :).
Bernie Sanders is coming to rally with candidates in Somerville and Cambridge
Does Bernie ever take a day off?
Can you imagine how many games of golf he would have played already if he had won the election?
ummm zero? does he play golf. gotta go. T&R!
I do believe your answer is correct. Though we’d probably see a few videos of him pitching a few to his grandson to knock out of the White House park.
Ah’, what could have been.
It makes me want him to run in 2020 (and of course become the candidate running against Trump).
I mean, who would people vote for? Even neolibs and/or HC supporters, they’re not going to vote for Trump, right?
some of them, maybe many, would or would not vote. since they already don’t much care for the 99%, they might consider it payback.
Or shooting some baskets with grandson as well.
Here is Bernie!
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-sanders/bernie-sanders-brings-local-politics-focus-to-massachusetts-races-idUSKBN1CS2CF?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59ee307a04d3016eb949b41b&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
This is a shame as he was one of my favorite candidates to keep an eye on:
Paul Perry Drops Out of Primary in Pennsylvania Race
PS: I’ll try and dig up some info on these peoples, if you know anything… please share!
Leach is the easy choice. May actually have been better than Perry.
oh, that is a shame. it is a big problem. the ones who want/need to support these candidates the most are struggling.
DNC creates new restrictions for corporate donations
Democrats ban some corporate donations while approving controversial new member list
Mostly a “FLUFF” resolution. As if the Dems are going to get donations from gun, tobacco and payday lenders in the first place. No wonder it was unanimous.
i’m sure some of them do. i know private prisons were big for Hill.
Figures–lipstick on a corporate pig
If anyone is sitting around waiting on ideas from centrists… they will be waiting quite a while.
Centrist Democrats’ biggest dilemma: Where are the big ideas?
Turd Way is not moderate. “Centrist” is a deliberate mangling of the word center. TW is Repuke Lite, and more and more people know it. How stupid can the Democrats get?
That all sounds pretty pathetic, if you ask me!
They (neolibs) have their agenda, but no “ideas” to go with it? What that tells me is that they’re just looking for sales promotional material. They need the narrative to SELL their neolib agenda.
Shouldn’t it be that the “big ideas and changes” come first? Is it really that they’re looking for language to obscure what their ideas really are and to obscure the effects their changes would have?
This fight isn’t over James J Zogby
The only effort by the DNC neolibs is to “Purge” any Berniecrat or put them in positions that are ceremonial with no real influence.
DNC enters 2018 in cash panic
Democrats’ early money haul stuns GOP
After the damage caused by Wasserman -Schultz and how the DNC screwed Bernie over. We haven’t forgotten. The purse strings are closed. Perhaps Pelosi can donate 10-15 million or call Soros for some cash.