Bernie Sanders stars in latest ad supporting drug pricing ballot measure [View all]

[Donkees]

Oct 4, 2016

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders hit California airwaves again this week, this time to promote Proposition 61, the November ballot initiative aimed at lowering prescription drug prices for state agencies.

In the 30-second ad, Sanders decries drug companies' "outrageous profits" and calls the measure a "very, very important step forward."

"It will be a real blow against this greedy industry that will reverberate all over America," Sanders says.

Proposition 61, which would tie drug prices for state agencies to what the Department of Veterans Affairs pays, is one of a couple dozen ballot measures nationwide that's been endorsed by Sanders and his newly formed group, Our Revolution.

The Yes on 61 campaign is being bankrolled by Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation and is supported by the California Nurses Assn. and AARP California.

It is opposed by drug companies, which have raised more than $87 million to defeat the measure, and by some veterans groups and the California Medical Assn.

Another ad featuring a Sanders speech that mentioned Proposition 61 previously ran online.

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