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Email from bernie regarding the Republican Debates...

Did you watch last night’s Republican presidential debate, Xxx?

If you are one of the wealthiest people in this country, then you had ten candidates talking about your needs for two hours.

But in the entire time I watched, I saw very little discussion about the issues important to most American families. There was no talk about climate change and clean energy, raising wages and providing healthcare for all Americans, criminal justice reform and the undermining of the Voting Rights Act, and nothing at all about the crushing burden of student debt.

And when they did talk about campaign finance reform and the billionaire class buying candidates and elections, it was the butt of a Donald Trump joke.

We need to be discussing issues facing working families at a debate hosted by trade unions. We need to discussing climate change and environmental issues at a forum hosted by the environmental community. We need to be discussing civil rights issues and racial injustice at a forum sponsored by civil rights groups. We need to be discussing gay rights at a forum hosted by the LGBT community. In other words, more discussion, more debate is good for the Democratic Party and good for the American people.

I know, and you know, that the best chance for this country is to discuss the issues that matter. Republicans aren’t going to do it, so we need more Democratic debates — more than the four scheduled by the Democratic National Committee before the Iowa Caucuses.

And I know that if Secretary Clinton wants more debates, we’ll get them.

Sign my petition and tell Secretary Clinton to encourage the Democratic National Committee to schedule more debates before the Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire primary in February and to allow important constituencies within the Democratic Party to host their own debates.

https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/more-debates?source=em150807su-full

Here’s what I did hear a lot about last night: I heard a group of ten Republicans on stage longing for a return to the days of George W. Bush. The return to more war and tax breaks for the rich, and less jobs and health insurance for most American families.

Do they remember the two wars George Bush put on the credit card?

I do. Some of us voted no.

Do they remember the 800,000 jobs a month we were hemorrhaging when Bush left office?
I do. Some of us voted against the policies that led us there.

The American people deserve more debates — debates about how we got to where we are today, and how we move this country forward. And if all the candidates running for the Democratic nomination, especially Secretary Clinton, call for more, then we’ll get them.

Add your name and encourage Secretary Clinton to call on the Democratic National Committee to schedule more debates before Iowa and New Hampshire, and let’s start right away.
We are at a moment of truth. We need to face up to the reality of where we are as a nation, and the best ways to move forward.

Thank you for standing with me.

Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders: Tonight's GOP debaters don't care about working people

There may be 10 candidates in Thursday night’s prime time Fox debate, but Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders thinks they will all be talking about the same thing.

“When you watch that debate just imagine if you are one of the wealthiest people in this country and extremely greedy and selfish, and you’re going to have 10 candidates more or less talking about your needs and not the needs of working people,” Sanders said in a recorded interview with Ari Rabin-Havt on SiriusXM’s Progress Channel.

Sanders believes he knows the agenda the GOP candidates will break down and it is in strong contrast with the one espoused by the Vermont senator.

Sanders, whose policies have associated him with socialism for decades, knocked the Republican focus on tax cuts and government spending.

“They want to give more tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires at a time when the rich are getting much richer,” Sanders said. “They want to cut or privatize Medicare, cut Medicaid, cut education, cut the environmental protection agency.”

Sanders, who is one of the biggest Senate opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline — and who has criticized Hillary Clinton on not doing enough to combat climate change — knocked the GOP for its views on the issue.

“There may be one or two on there who actually have listened to the scientific community and think that climate change is real. Most of them refuse to accept that, and none of them are prepared to act aggressively to transform our energy system,” he said.

The top 10 polling Republican candidates will take the stage Thursday night for a two-hour debate in Cleveland, Ohio. A “happy hour” debate will take place at 5 p.m. for the candidates who didn’t make the top 10.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/bernie-sanders-gop-primary-debate-criticism-121085.html#ixzz3i3t3Hz00

Bernie is burning up New Hampshire...

(from an email)

Xxx -

The last time we emailed you about a poll in New Hampshire six weeks ago, Bernie had cut Hillary Clinton’s once-large lead to a manageable ten point spread.

Now a new poll released just yesterday shows our campaign has closed to within four points in New Hampshire: 43% to 39%.

That's not all. New polls in Iowa, Minnesota, and Washington show our campaign with all the momentum.

We can win this thing, Xxx — but only if we’re in it together. Please contribute $50 to Bernie’s campaign today.
People ask all the time how we’ve done so well in the face of such long odds, and the answer is simple: when we all stand together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

And that goes for winning the nomination, and the White House… but only if we keep it up.

Let's go.
Jeff Weaver
Campaign Manager
Bernie 2016