A few minutes until Bernie Sanders' event in Portland starts and the 19,000 person Moda Center is nearly filled. pic.twitter.com/iOPYUHyqu7
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) August 10, 2015
In the interests of fairness. Late Saturday, criminal justice advocate / political activist / “proverbial glass ceiling smasher” Symone Sanders introduced Bernie at his Seattle rally, in her new position as national press secretary for the campaign. She seems to be a most excellent addition to his team, per the Washington Post:
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has been drawing eye-poppingly large crowds on the campaign trail, on Sunday night attracted his largest audience yet: about 28,000 people in Portland, Ore., according to his campaign…
Sunday night’s rally in Portland followed a wild day in Seattle, where Sanders’s well-attended evening rally came just hours after he left another stage in the city where a small group of protesters aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement took the microphone from him. Sanders was scheduled to be the last speaker at that event, attended by several thousand people, at a park. He wound up not speaking.
Sanders’s newly hired press secretary, Symone Sanders, an African American woman, warned the crowd before Sanders took the stage in Portland of the possibility that his event could be a disruption there, too. She told the crowd that Sanders was about bringing people together and urged them to chant, “We Stand Together” if protesters took the stage. But that didn’t happen.
I asked Bernie after if he was worried about #BlackLivesMatter protesters. He shook his head, "Great night. Huge turnout. Very good."
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) August 10, 2015
#BlackLivesMatter released their own statement:
Statement just released from #BlackLivesMatter on the Sanders protest Saturday http://t.co/gSX3fhd497 pic.twitter.com/6zhKoVahOY
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) August 10, 2015
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Apart from the battles on all fronts, what’s on the agenda as we start another not-at-all-as-quiet-as-August-is-supposed-to-be week?
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