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Jeff Merkley (Oregon) Endorses Bernie Sanders!
Big news, friends! I am endorsing Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
As I wrote in The New York Times, we need urgency. We need big ideas. We need to rethink the status quo that allows the best off to continue setting the terms of debate. We have two good choices for president, but I think Bernie is the candidate who can best help us rethink how our economy and politics work, and for whom they work.
As I wrote in The New York Times, we need urgency. We need big ideas. We need to rethink the status quo that allows the best off to continue setting the terms of debate. We have two good choices for president, but I think Bernie is the candidate who can best help us rethink how our economy and politics work, and for whom they work.
https://www.facebook.com/JeffMerkleyOregon/?fref=nf
Bernie Sanders is boldly and fiercely addressing the biggest challenges facing our country.
He has opposed trade deals with nations that pay their workers as little as a dollar an hour. Such deals have caused good jobs to move overseas and undermined the leverage of American workers to bargain for a fair share of the wealth they create in our remaining factories.
He has passionately advocated for pivoting from fossil fuels to renewable energy to save our planet from global warming — the greatest threat facing humanity. He recognizes that to accomplish this we must keep the vast bulk of the world’s fossil fuels in the ground.
Bernie is a determined leader in taking on the concentration of campaign cash from the mega-wealthy that is corrupting the vision of opportunity embedded in our Constitution.
He has opposed trade deals with nations that pay their workers as little as a dollar an hour. Such deals have caused good jobs to move overseas and undermined the leverage of American workers to bargain for a fair share of the wealth they create in our remaining factories.
He has passionately advocated for pivoting from fossil fuels to renewable energy to save our planet from global warming — the greatest threat facing humanity. He recognizes that to accomplish this we must keep the vast bulk of the world’s fossil fuels in the ground.
Bernie is a determined leader in taking on the concentration of campaign cash from the mega-wealthy that is corrupting the vision of opportunity embedded in our Constitution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/opinion/why-im-supporting-bernie-sanders.html