Bernie Sanders visits Seattle Wednesday on sold-out book tour
Updated November 30, 2016 at 11:39 am
By Seattle Times staff
It’s a Wednesday with Bernie Sanders.
The former Democratic candidate for president will be in town tonight as part of his book tour, promoting “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In.”
The 7 p.m. event at University Temple church in the U District is sold out, but Times reporter Jessica Lee (@jessleeST) will be covering it live.
The Seattle visit is part of a three-week national tour; Sanders will next go to Portland and end in California. All other stops are also sold out.
The longtime Vermont Senator amassed loyal fans here during the presidential campaign.
Many Washington voters supported the underdog candidate in his run for the White House before he won a caucus or primary. By early March, Seattle ranked No. 1 among the country’s 50 largest cities for per capita contributions to Sanders’ campaign, according to a Seattle Times analysis.
Later that month, the senator held a handful of Washington rallies — filling Seattle’s Safeco Field and KeyArena, for instance — and then won in a landslide over Hillary Clinton in the state’s precinct-level caucuses, beating her in every county. (Clinton later won the state’s purely symbolic Democratic primary.)
Clinton clinched the number of delegates needed for the Democratic nomination in June.
The senator — who faces re-election to the Senate in 2018 and has not ruled out a 2020 run for president — most recently visited the Puget Sound region to campaign in October for Pramila Jayapal’s race for Washington’s 7th Congressional District seat, which she won.
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Organizer: handful of ppl started lining up ~ 4:30 for a good seat. Church fits more than 900. Expecting full house
Attendees greeted by stacks of Bernie's 450pg book that's broken into 2 parts: policy prescriptions, campaign memoir
Overheard #Bernie fan: "He's been more of a spiritual leader for us," platforms r never about "him" but instead "us"
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Sanders take podium to very welcoming crowd. Wife, Jane, here too.
Sen. Bernie Sanders just arrived at University Temple Methodist Church at #UW. Telling crowd all public universities should be tuition-free.
Brian Stahl ?@stahlingphotog 10m10 minutes ago
@BernieSanders speaking at university temple to 1k people during his book tour @KIRO7Seattle
Jessica Lee ?@jessleeST 2m2 minutes ago
Sanders on book: If you get bored half way through skip to the last chapter (which is about media being rigged by corporate interests)
Jessica Lee ?@jessleeST 46s47 seconds ago
Sanders: painting pic of workers unable to keep up w/health care costs, fearful of jobs going overseas. "People are scared.. Trump saw it."
Jessica Lee ?@jessleeST 2m2 minutes ago
Bernie is taking questions from the crowd. First one: "How do Bernie supporters reconcile differences w/Trump supporters to benefit
both?"
Jessica Lee ?@jessleeST 49s50 seconds ago
Answer: Both types of supporters want some of the same things, low student debt, affordable health care.
Jessica Lee ?@jessleeST 1m1 minute ago
"Can you run again? Will you?" crowd cheers..
Jessica Lee ?@jessleeST 2m2 minutes ago
Answer on 2020 presidential Bernie campaign: Focus on now
Jessica Lee
?@jessleeST
Q: Do you think the Democratic Party learned from election 2016? Sanders: Calls on audience for help, applauds MN Congressman Keith Ellison
Huge cheers after Bernie Sanders mentions the @seattletimes as only major newspaper endorsement. http://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/the-seattle-times-editorial-board-recommends-john-kasich-bernie-sanders/ …
Bernie speech over. Check for full story soon on http://seattletimes.com
"Attendees lined up early for the sold-out event, among them a handful who waited hours to snag a close seat and some of whom traveled from across the Puget Sound area."
"For Vikki Anselmo and Celeste Duncan, two friends who attended Wednesday, Sanders’ appearance was part of recovery from what Anselmo called “a disastrous election,” calling it a form of group therapy.
“It’s needed,” said another fan, Bridget Espinola. “There’s no better time.”
"Many Washington voters supported the underdog candidate before he even won a single caucus or primary. By early March, Seattle ranked No. 1 among the country’s 50 largest cities for per-capita contributions to Sanders’ campaign, according to a Seattle Times analysis."
Read the whole article here:
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/bernie-sanders-urges-seattle-progressives-to-stand-up-fight-back/
