Bernie Sanders, during Cleveland campaign stops, speaks at East Side church, accepts

[Uncle Joe]

labor endorsement.

Sanders first stopped by his recently-opened Euclid Avenue campaign headquarters near Cleveland State University's campus, where he accepted an endorsement from a union representing federal Social Security workers.

He then traveled to the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood to participate in town hall meeting geared toward issues affecting African-Americans that was organized by a coalition of religious leaders, activists and others. The church next Saturday will also will host former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sanders' opponent in the Democratic primary, according to the Rev. Jawanza Colvin, the church's senior pastor.

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Jason Allen and Ashley Johnson, a Euclid couple, brought their two-year-old son to see Sanders speak at Olivet. They said seeing Sanders speak reaffirmed their support of him.

"It was a pleasant surprise, because he came off as genuine as he does in his [online] videos," Allen said. "Like he cares about working-class people."

Johnson said she thinks black voters are just more familiar with Clinton, the former First Lady, because of her husband's White House tenure.

"I think our community needs to look at this. Do we need a cool president and his wife, or do we need someone who has been with us?" she said.


http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/03/bernie_sanders_while_in_clevel.html

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1. Thanks.

[sabrina 1]

2. Great endorsement, thanks Uncle Joe

[Uncle Joe]

3. Thank you, sabrina.

Peace to you.

[elleng]

4. 'Johnson said she thinks black voters are just more familiar with Clinton,

the former First Lady, because of her husband's White House tenure.'

That's been my thought too.

[Octafish]

6. Lookit Trump, too: Name Recognition is a powerful thing.

And when people get to know Bernie, they like him because they see he's been the real deal since his days leading students at UChicago.

[elleng]

7. Right.

[senz]

5. People meet him, people like him

because he's real, and he cares.

[AzDar]

8. K & R