by Bernie Sanders Revolution Continues, Almost 7,000 Sign Up To Run For Office
Justin Streight, Inquistr.com, June 18, 2016
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Bernie Sanders asked his supporters to run for local office or volunteer to help in local campaigns, and they responded. The Sanders campaign reports that roughly 6,700 have expressed interest in running at the local level, another 4,000 or so say they want to volunteer.
Some commentators expected Sanders to concede the race to Hillary Clinton in his Internet rally on Thursday. He didn’t. In fact, the senator from Vermont had a few criticisms of the Democratic party and made almost no mention of Clinton at all. Instead, Sanders kept to the same message he had throughout his campaign about fighting for working class Americans through progressive reforms, but he also added a new call to action – for supporters to start their own campaigns.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Bernie Sanders invited supporters to sign up on the web address BernieSanders.com/win for more information. In the process, Sanders criticized the Democratic party for turning “its back on dozens of states,” explaining that about 900 legislative seats had been lost to Republicans since 2009. There are 31 states where the Republicans control the state-legislatures, and 23 states where Republicans hold both the governorship and the legislature. Likewise, there were many races that were going uncontested by Democratic candidates. The Vermont senator said, “the Democratic Party needs a 50-state strategy.”
“We may not win in every state tomorrow, but we will never win unless we recruit good candidates. We must provide resources to those states which have so long been ignored. Most importantly, we need leadership that is prepared to open its doors… to young people.”
