Bernie Sanders, Tom Perez plan multi-state Democratic unity tour

[Donkees]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Sen. Bernie Sanders will join new Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez this month on a multi-state tour aimed at mending a party fractured by 2016's primary battle, people familiar with the plans tell CNN.

The tour will begin April 17 and last roughly one week. The exact locations are still being nailed down, but the tour is expected to begin in Maine and is also likely to include stops in Florida, Arizona, Kentucky, Nevada, Nebraska and Utah.

The two will cast the tour as a unity effort aimed at turning Democratic efforts away from intra-party squabbles and toward resisting President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/bernie-sanders-tom-perez-joint-tour/

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/bernie-sanders-tom-perez-joint-tour/

[zentrum]

1. There you go!

Need this news, especially today.

[tenorly]

2. Good. We'll need all hands on deck for 2018.

The House map is, as we all know, grotesquely gerrymandered, and the Senate map is very difficult this cycle.

[democrank]

4. Much needed good news.

Good start to what I hope ends up being a 50-state strategy.

[sheshe2]

5. Donnie just launched an air strike in Syria.NT!

[babylonsister]

8. I know and am not terribly surprised. My only question is, who made that

decision because dt probably didn't.

[George II]

6. Actually Perez" tour, according to the first line of the article:

"Sen. Bernie Sanders will join new Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez this month on a multi-state tour"

[Lucky Luciano]

14. C'mon George! Say something nice about Bernie! nt

[QC]

17. No! It could cause a tear in space-time!

[babylonsister]

7. Wow! Love it! nt

[mountain grammy]

9. Good news..

Time to wake up the huge number of Americans who don't vote.

[ornotna]

10. Excellent

Some positive news.

[dgauss]

11. Excellent, I'm liking Perez's priorities.

And Bernie continues to fight the good fight regardless of petty intra-party bitterness.

[rockfordfile]

12. Sounds good.

[still_one]

13. This is good. Unity means not to publicly denigrate the DNC or Democrats, but to work together

through those differences

[JudyM]

15. Sanders works nonstop on so many fronts, here's another good idea.

[Donkees]

16. Bernie Sanders Planning National Tour To Boost Candidates, Grassroots Party Activism

04/06/2017 11:19 pm ET

[font color="#808080"font size="4"]Democratic officials are expected to join Sanders on the road.[/font]

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON ― Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning a national tour to give a boost to progressive Democratic candidates and energize activists in areas of the country that the party has long neglected, sources familiar with the planning told The Huffington Post. He will be joined on the road by prominent Democratic Party officials.

Details of the tour are still being worked out, but Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, would have no shortage of potential whistle stops.

Special elections across the country that were initially presumed to be easy Republican wins are turning into fierce contests. In suburban Atlanta, Georgia, Democrat Jon Ossoff is competitive in a race to replace Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, with Republicans pouring millions of dollars into a race they thought was in the bag.

Democrats are likely to be able to widely expand the field of winnable seats in November 2018, if recent local special elections are an indication of enthusiasm among Democrats and a lack of it among Republicans. For Sanders, political organizing means more than coming out once every two or four years to vote. He has long talked about building enduring organizing networks that can be mobilized not just on behalf of party politics, but also for specific local, national or global issues.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-national-tour_us_58e6f28be4b0cdad578e7a52

[JudyM]

18. Very cool! This is an even stronger approach.

Good to have some sense of hope on this very bleak day of Gorsuch's confirmation. Thanks!

[Donkees]

20. Yes, and Bernie mentioned that Tom Perez is picking up half of the cost of the tour :)

[George II]

19. To anyone who had any doubts about whose tour this is:

Tom Perez‏ Verified account @tomperez

So glad that my friend @berniesanders will be joining me on this cross country tour. We want to see you there: bit.ly/2oa6hwu

[That Guy 888]

21. Bernie's doing most of the heavy lifting on this.

I hope the Democratic Party can prove that they aren't in the pocket of big business, pay-day lenders, and Wall Street.