BNR - 'Sanders Storms Kentucky With A Focus On Local Issues' & 'What The Youth Get About Bernie'
"Let me begin by making a very short statement so the people of Kentucky will understand what kind of president I will be. And that is I understand your new governor, Gov. Bevin, is busy cutting healthcare and cutting education," he said.
"So if you can imagine the kind of governor Gov. Bevin is, think about Bernie Sanders as a president doing exactly the opposite," he said to cheers from a partisan crowd.
Sanders, who is trying to overtake Clinton in the number of delegates, spoke for 59 minutes on the back of an old Louisville & Nashville Pullman at the Historic Railpark and Train Museum in Bowling Green as temperatures dipped to near 50 degrees.
Sanders was toughest on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who he blamed for blocking legislation last year that would have protected coal miners' pensions.
"The message to Sen. McConnell, who I've known for many years, is that right now we have a major pension crisis all over the country," he said.
"The truth is that the United Mine Workers pension plan today, for a variety of reasons, is on the brink of failure. Some 90,000 workers and retirees are at risk of having their pension benefits slashed by 30, 40 or 50 percent," he said.
Despite a bipartisan agreement to protect the pensions, "at the last minute, Sen. McConnell, the most powerful member of the United States Senate, removed that provision from the budget deal," Sanders said.
"Frankly, it is very hard for me to understand why he would remove a provision that benefitted so many people in his very own state," he said.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/15/1526634/-BNR-Sanders-Storms-Kentucky-With-A-Focus-On-Local-Issues-amp-What-The-Youth-Get-About-Bernie
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