🐦 March 12 - Bernie Sanders - McDowell County Town Hall

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McDowell County, WV -
West Virginia's Democratic choice for President during the primary election in 2016 is making a stop in McDowell County. U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will be at Mount View High School on Sunday, March 12, 2017. Officials at the school have confirmed that he will be holding a town hall meeting to speak with residents. This comes after the meeting scheduled in February was cancelled.

The meeting on Sunday is set to begin at 2:30 p.m. Those who are interested in attending the meeting can call 1-800-840-4580 or send and email to [e-mail].

http://www.wvalways.com/story/34685879/town-hall-meeting-with-bernie-sanders-in-wv-rescheduled

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1. Bernie Sanders Event Sunday in West Virginia

Excerpt:

Sanders will speak Sunday afternoon at Mount View High School in the city of Welch. The event is being hosted by MSNBC, which plans to broadcast it later, calling it "an unscripted, no-holds-barred conversation" with people from McDowell County about the issues facing them and communities like theirs.

"I think for too long the federal government has ignored the needs of rural America," Sanders told The Associated Press on Friday. "All over this country: What we're seeing right now in rural America is unemployment rates that are too high, health care that's inadequate, infrastructure that's in deep trouble. ... And in addition to all of that is the opioid crisis, which exists all over, in my state and West Virginia, which has to be dealt with as well."

"What we are seeing in West Virginia, in Vermont, in rural America, is a decline in living standards for rural America," Sanders said. "I think it's important that people in rural America begin to have a voice to talk about the reality of their lives and to talk about what they think their communities need to go forward."

He believes obstacles include the lack of quality broadband and cellphone service, and roads and bridges in disrepair. Sanders expects to visit other areas around the country to try to put rural needs high on Congress' agenda, he said.

West Virginia and other states also could be hurt if Congress repeals the Affordable Care Act, which extended health care coverage to many people and helps support rural hospitals, Sanders said. "Unless there is a substitute plan that is as good or better, I fear very much that many, many people in West Virginia will A, lose the health insurance they have recently gotten, or B, if they're on Medicaid, the kind of services they can receive on Medicaid will be diminished."

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/west-virginia/articles/2017-03-10/bernie-sanders-event-sunday-in-west-virginia

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2. K&R! Bernie's doing great outreach nt