Bernie Sanders to rally with Charles Booker this weekend in Louisville

[Uncle Joe]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to Louisville on Sunday, the day after the Kentucky Derby.

The Vermont senator and former presidential candidate is holding a rally with former state Rep. Charles Booker, where the two will "build support for a working family's agenda."

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This is also the first official rally for Booker who recently launched an exploratory committee as he weighs whether to run for U.S. Senate in 2022. That would be a race against Sen. Rand Paul who has already indicated he will be seeking re-election.

Booker tried to make a run against Sen. Mitch McConnell in the November 2020 election. However, Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, beat out Booker in the Democratic primary, even as he gained big momentum in the final hours as he went into the streets during racial justice protests in Louisville.

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https://www.wlky.com/article/bernie-sanders-to-rally-with-charles-booker-this-weekend-in-louisville/36289327

I believe Booker would make a great Senator and I would love to see Rand Paul defeated for re-election.

There is a video on the link.

[Hortensis]

1. I remember Booker. He was running far behind Amy McGrath,

who for a bit was running neck-and-neck with McConnell.

Then George Floyd was murdered. All of a sudden some discovered Booker-the-black-man and realized he really deserved the seat, was even owed it, that nothing else would be right. Certainly not the female front runner. (The Year of the Woman was over, though some didn't even get that.)

With their noise and plenty of media attention, he was belatedly pulled up from obscurity and took some of the vote away from McGrath, who had to go on from that weakened point to run against McConnell in the GE.

I'll wait to see what other Democratic candidates are running and who's funding and endorsing them. But I wish the best of them very good luck running on their own virtues and promises to Kentucky families they can make good on by working with other Democrats in congress.

[kickitup]

3. I remember when Amy McGrath couldn't beat Andy Barr.

And we all tried to tell you she couldn't beat McConnell either. But sure, yeah, blame it on the black man. Pitiful.

[Hortensis]

4. This was after, and I'll blame it on those who

not only don't know how to win but too often don't even seem to care as long as they can indulge their flavor of the moment. Booker was that.

And please don't tell me these people from around the country had heard of Booker or knew anything about his record before George Floyd's murder, or after for that matter. Of course they'd never heard of him, and for that matter most voters in KY didn't know anything about him either.

[Me.]

2. As He's Targeting A Con

I wish him all the best in the world and look forward to seeing him in the Senate if he is able to pull this off