Bernie Sanders spurns meeting with HIV and AIDS advocates
HIV and AIDS advocates are voicing disappointment with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after they say he spurned a meeting with them last week.
The Democratic president candidate was scheduled to meet with more than a dozen activists — from the Black AIDS Institute, the National Black Leadership, and Housing Works, among others — to discuss his plan for ending the HIV and AIDS epidemic, but his campaign postponed the meeting, they said.
"Not until April 29, with only four days’ notice, did Sanders representatives set a 30-minute meeting to take place in Indianapolis on the morning of the May 3rd Indiana primary,” the HIV advocates wrote Monday in a press release. "Attendees purchased expensive, last-minute airfares, only to be informed two days later...that the May 3 meeting was cancelled. Despite another promise to reschedule as soon as possible, thus far the Sanders campaign has not proposed a new date, time, or city."
The Sanders campaign responded to questions from The Hill by touting his Senate record of promoting LGBTQ rights and fighting against HIV and AIDS.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/279283-hiv-advocates-sanders-spurned-meeting
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