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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 12:17 PM Oct 2015

These are the faces of the Bernie Sanders grassroots army

By CHRISTINA BELLANTONI

They paint illegal murals in downtown Los Angeles. They collect email addresses they don’t know where to send. They organize their own meetups, hand out political fliers in multiple languages, and register voters.

In liberal precincts of California and like-minded enclaves scattered across the country, ardent Bernie Sanders supporters are taking matters into their own hands with little if any guidance from the Vermont senator’s official campaign.

"I was five feet away from him and he was saying, 'Nothing will change even with me running, so it’s about building the grass-roots army behind me,'" said Suzanne O'Keeffe, 52. "And I thought, ‘Yep, I can help build that army.’"

O'Keeffe, a Web developer, writer and filmmaker, met Sanders when he made an impromptu drop-in at Canter's Deli in Los Angeles following his appearance in June on "Real Time with Bill Maher." She was already part of a group of Sanders supporters, but the face-to-face interaction got her even more invested.

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K&R azmom Oct 2015 #1
except I do know what to do with the emails I collect marym625 Oct 2015 #2
K & R. Great Article! 3 things in the article stuck out the most for me..... n8dogg83 Oct 2015 #3
Way to go!! haikugal Oct 2015 #4
K&R leftcoastmountains Oct 2015 #5
KnR! n/t Admiral Loinpresser Oct 2015 #6
K&R a whole bunch! Enthusiast Oct 2015 #7

marym625

(17,997 posts)
2. except I do know what to do with the emails I collect
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 12:32 PM
Oct 2015

And am building a group in an area of California that has none before.

#FeelTheBern

n8dogg83

(248 posts)
3. K & R. Great Article! 3 things in the article stuck out the most for me.....
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 12:35 PM
Oct 2015
A Sanders aide said the campaign recently got a call about their office in Utah — even though there is no office in Utah. A Sanders loyalist had established one.


Some pro-Sanders activists are going beyond his campaign to recruit candidates for offices further down the ballot, hoping for a Sanders wave of leftist voters in June’s California primary, and beyond.


Debra Mayes posted on a Facebook group that she is organizing a group to hand out fliers at the Taste of Soul Family Festival on Saturday "in the heart of the black community."



If we can replicate the above across all 50 states then we will win this. I'm so proud of Sander's supporters. They are picking up the slack of the Sanders Campaign in a big way!


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