Average Person Endorses Bernie Sanders!
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ANYTOWN, USA - Ignored by the mainstream media, but far more influential at the water cooler and over-the-fence than any celebrity, Average Person today endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in his bid for the Democratic nomination.
Person, who works 60 hours a week for about $27,000 a year, began the day by participating in a Chalk the Block for Bernie event.
"Since the media is so wrapped up in the celebrity of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, there seems to be little air-time for a candidate that actually brings years of fighting for the working class to the table," Person said. "Chalking the Block for Bernie is a low-cost way to spread the word for Sanders' campaign outside of the corporate media."
Person and 32,000 other Joe and Jane Doe's also used the power of social media to by-pass an in-the-tank-for-millions mainstream media earlier this week by re-Tweeting a Sanders quote during the Republican debacle debate. The quote was re-Tweeted and Favorited by more people than any Republican's comment and out-paced Clinton's Tweet request for more donations, sent while she dined with the elites of California at a-too-pricey-for-a-working-person-to-attend event.
Person said even more working people plan to cap off the weekend by cheering on Sanders at the Moda Center in Portland, Ore. The event was originally scheduled for the much smaller Veteran's Memorial Center, but the deluge of RSVP have forced a move to the 20,000-seat Moda.
Studies have shown that friends, family and neighbors carry more influence in who those around them vote for than any political or celebrity endorsement. In fact, sometimes those big-name endorsements backfire.
"If this keeps up, Bernie will have the endorsement of nearly every Average Person in the country," Person said. "And that is great for America!"
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to get him elected, and I was with 100,000 + during his 3,500+ town hall main streaming who are going to do are part-------------------will you all help
20,000+ in Oregon-----------fantastic
Honk-----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
please and thank you.
That was part of why I wrote this.
It's the Rose Garden. Home of the Rose Bowl.
I'm a college football fan.
The University of Tennessee went to the "Taxslayer" Bowl last year. I refused to call it that. It's the Gator Bowl. Period.
My problem is that I didn't realize that it was the Rose Garden until much later today since I live nearly 3,000 miles from there. In the future, I will try to look up the venue to make sure it's proper name is used and not the corporate-ass structure that bought it.
... after it was renamed "3Com Park". I guess now that they've destroyed it, they don't have to worry about the newer park having a former non-corporate name that people will continually call it.
And for us Portlanders, how long will they name Providence Park by this name, since it used to be known as Jeld-Wen Field, PGE Park, Civic Stadium, and Multnomah Stadium? Various sports and their sports fans rely on tradition to keep people excited about their teams, etc. in various communities. Continually selling off their venue's names destroys that tradition, and in the end I think destroys the larger support and success of their sports franchises, and the revenue that the community could get from people following them.
Well, I certainly avoided the term "Moda Center" in the t-shirt I'm going to sell for Bernie tonight, with the silhouette of that building on the shirt. Hopefully people will see that Bernie's being warmly accepted by those here in the home of the Trailblazers...
Good job!
I love the lines "Person, who works 60 hours a week for about $27,000 a year,..." 
and
"at a-too-pricey-for-a-working-person-to-attend event." 
Really great post.