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TexasTowelie

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Sat Aug 29, 2020, 02:32 AM Aug 2020

Beto O'Rourke and Bernie Sanders team up for Saturday event

HOUSTON -- Former presidential contenders Bernie Sanders and Beto O’Rourke are joining forces to hold a virtual town hall meeting this weekend to discuss “fighting for justice” in Texas.

Racial justice, climate change and the nation’s response to the pandemic have been central to similar town hall sessions that Sanders has organized in recent weeks in other states like Wisconsin and Iowa.

“After Joe Biden and Kamala (Harris) are elected, what we have got to do is to push a progressive agenda,” said Sanders, a U.S. Senator from Vermont. “An agenda that stands for working people and not just the 1 percent.”

Read more: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Beto-O-Rourke-and-Bernie-Sanders-team-up-for-15519741.php
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Beto O'Rourke and Bernie Sanders team up for Saturday event (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2020 OP
I really wish Julie Oliver had a chance. RandySF Aug 2020 #1
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