🔥 BERNIE RALLY IN DETROIT

[NurseJackie]

62. The campaign *said* there were flyers... but could not produce an example of the flyer. Curious, no?

https://patch.com/new-york/astoria-long-island-city/queensbridge-residents-say-they-didnt-know-sanders-rally

According to the president of the Queensbridge Tenants Association, the campaign contacted the association just a day before the rally. The people at the rally weren't from the community, looked like tourists, and were attending what was a "pretty white" event that "wasn't for us", local community leaders told the local news media.

That might be an important detail, because as the New York Times notes, the rally was held at "a gentrifying slice of Queens". Like many neighborhoods that once boasted ethnic and economic diversity now facing the displacement of longtime poor and predominantly black and brown people, the residents of Queensbridge has been facing rising challenges from gentrification for years. While the issues that combine to create gentrification - housing affordability, migration, wage gaps, devaluation of non-tech work - are big and complex, high-income, largely white millennials are a key constituency for Sanders.

The Sanders campaign hit back against the accusations that they did not involve the community, saying that they tried to contact the Tenants Association and posted flyers. When asked by local media for a copy of the flyer, though, the campaign went silent. The campaign also wouldn't say just where those flyers were posted.

Some might say there were no flyers.