On the Road:Canvassing Iowa (w/pics)
In a final stop on a three-day Iowa swing, Bernie Sanders met at his Hawkeye State campaign headquarters on Saturday with dozens of volunteers.
“What makes our campaign different is we’re doing this at the grassroots,” Sanders said in a talk to the mostly young canvassers wearing Bernie T-shirts. “You knock on people’s doors and sit down and talk to them face-to-face. That’s what democracy is about,” Sanders told the volunteers before they fanned out into Des Moines neighborhoods. “This is what I believe in. Not only is it effective but people talking to people is what this campaign is about.”
Sanders told the volunteers they would hear about issues that impact working families, such as the need for jobs, better childcare and affordable college.
The headquarters meeting in Des Moines capped a swing through Iowa that also included:
Walking a picket line in Cedar Rapids on Friday with workers outside a corn processing plant. The facility was purchased last spring by an out-of-state company which pays its CEO millions of dollars a year but wants to cut pay and benefits for working families.
Speaking to 2,000 students and others at an outdoor rally on the campus of Coe College. It was one of the biggest crowds that Sanders or any other candidate has drawn so far this campaign to an event in Iowa.
Visiting the Meskwaki settlement near Tama, Iowa, where he spoke about the bold actions needed to stop global warming. “Native American people, perhaps more than any other people in our country, have always known the relationship and the importance of treating nature with respect,” Sanders said.
Speaking out at a Friday Latino Roundtable about “mean and degrading” remarks on immigrants by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Sanders also faulted the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for refusing to consider a Senate-passed immigration reform bill. “It is incomprehensible that the U.S. House has not yet taken up the comprehensive immigration reform bill passed by the Senate with my support,” Sanders said. “We need legislation which takes 11 million undocumented people living in the United States out of the shadows and puts them on a path to citizenship.”
Answering questions from reporters for this weekend’s “Iowa Press” program on Iowa Public Television and discussing issues with The Des Moines Register editorial board.
Going to Grinnell and addressing 700 people from a gazebo in a city park.
Speaking in a livestock exhibit area at a county fair in the Mississippi River town of Burlington, Iowa.
Opening a campaign office in Ottumwa, one of 15 field offices across Iowa that are part of a growing campaign operation in the state.
Iowa holds the first precinct caucus in the nation next February when the Democratic Party begins the process of selecting its nominee for the White House in 2016. A new Register and Bloomberg Politics poll put Sanders within 7 points of the front-runner in an increasingly competitive contest.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2015/08/29/iowa-poll-democrats-august/71387664/
Bill McKibben
Bernie Sanders joins picket line in Iowa (and not for the first time, it should be said--this is what he does)
https://twitter.com/billmckibben
https://berniesanders.com/on-the-road-canvassing-iowa/
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