San Juan Mayor Carmen Yuln Cruz to co-chair Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign

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“This is personal. The president came and threw paper towels at us," says Yulin Cruz. Of Sanders, she says, "In our darkest hour, he was there for us."

By Suzanne Gamboa Feb. 21, 2019, 5:17 PM CST

Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan, an adversary of President Donald Trump, has signed on to be one of four national co-chairs of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign.

Her commitment to Sanders, the Vermont independent who announced his presidential bid on Tuesday, comes as the Democratic field is growing and competition for high-profile supporters is intensifying.

Cruz told NBC News in a telephone interview Thursday that she has working relationships with several of the senators who are running or may run. But she has been working with Sanders since 2016, “looking for a path for Puerto Rico.”

“A lot of the things he’s been fighting for all his life I’ve been fighting for all my life,” Cruz said. “Things like let’s not put health before wealth.”

She also named Sanders' efforts on education, collective bargaining, the rights of people in the LGBTQ and transgender communities, and other issues.

She said he has had a long commitment to being in the forefront of structural changes, even when they were not popular.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/san-juan-mayor-carmen-yul-n-cruz-co-chair-bernie-n974276

[samnsara]

1. i like her..glad to see shes becoming more of a public figure!

[IluvPitties]

2. Very respectfully...she needs to focus on the people of San Juan.

As a fellow Puerto Rican, I appreciate very much the work she did during Hurricane María, but truth be told... she has been a lousy mayor. She's been considerably absent from her duties an obscene amount of time while ignoring the issues affecting our Capital City today.

The person truly running San Juan right now is former local senator Marco Rigau, which is her main advisor.

[ecstatic]

3. Sounds like a good, strategic choice. nt

[still_one]

4. along with Nina Turner

[pnwmom]

6. A much better choice than Nina Turner (unless she, like Nina, refused to support Hillary.) n/t

[still_one]

7. Mayor Cruz was a subperb selection. However, putting Nina Turner along side her is not

[Tribalceltic]

5. One question

Is this for his Independent run for President, His Democratic Run or the one that Putin is directing?

Asking for a friend