Sanders in Seattle on August 8th, supporting Social Security and Medicare!!!

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14. Bernie Sanders will speak at Westlake Park and UW — and not at a millionaire’s mansion

Joel Connolly--

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/07/31/bernie-sanders-will-speak-in-seattle-at-westlake-park-and-not-at-a-millionaires-mansion/

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, whose rallies around the country have drawn as many as 11,000 people, will speak next Saturday, August 8, at a “Social Security Works” rally in Seattle’s Westlake Park.

Although not officially an event in his bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, Sanders’ speech will be the first time in the 2016 campaign cycle that a major party candidate visiting Seattle has NOT limited his or her appearance to a pricey fundraiser at a millionaire’s digs in Seattle or Medina.

Sanders will later have a campaign rally, from 6 to 8 p.m., in the Alaska Airlines Arena of Hec Edmundson Pavilion at the University of Washington. President Obama spoke there five years ago, drawing such a crowd that Husky Stadium was needed for overflow.

At Westlake, Sanders will be joined on the podium by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, longtime Seattle folksinger Jim Page, and Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant. Sawant is part of the Trotskyist Socialist Alternative Party. Sanders is a self-described “democratic socialist.”