Bernie Sanders Is Coming to Portland OR on August 9 (and Everyone Is Going)

[99th_Monkey]

Bernie Sanders Is Coming to Portland on August 9 (and Everyone Is Going)
Hillary Clinton will be here too this week, but you can't afford to go to that event.

If there's one thing the people of Portland love, it's the most liberal possible probably-not-viable candidate for president.

In 2000 when Al Gore visited our fair city, his message was almost drowned out by Ralph Nader supporters protesting him as a "Republi-crat." Nader went on to get a healthy 5 percent of the popular vote in Oregon. And on Sunday, get ready for a massive and totally free Bernie Sanders rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum, featuring the Great White Hope from Vermont himself, Beeeeern-ie Saaaaaan-ders.

Things have changed a little since 2000, when the field was a monotonous line of white and gray-haired men and Nader was the upstart with a lady running mate that even plenty of liberals wouldn't vote for because he was so out there. Somehow, Bernie Sanders, your classic, aging, white male politician, has come out as the furthest left candidate against a woman and is basically a socialist compared to our current commander in chief, who, if you'll remember, is an African-American Gen X-er.

But the people of Portland aren't embarrassed about letting their conservatively liberal freak flags fly by supporting an old white dude for president; according to a since-deleted tweet over 9,000 people RSVP'd for the Rose Quarter rally within two days of its announcement (speculation on Reddit is that the campaign asked that the tweet be deleted since they don't want info on RSVPs announced yet). The capacity of the Memorial Coliseum is 12,888, so it's a good bet the place will be filled and then some on Sunday.


At the rally, Sanders promises to address the major tenets of his campaign: getting big money out of politics, dealing with income inequality and climate change and making college affordable. Want to go? All you have to do is RSVP for the rally here and hope the government isn't putting you on some sort of list when you sign up.

Want to see his main competitor and probable-nominee Hillary Clinton this week? Well, she'll be in town on Aug. 5, but her event is invitation-only, costs $2,700 if you get one of those invites and is taking place at the home of "Democratic Party insiders Win McCormack and Carol Butler." So you're not going to that.

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-33544-bernie_sanders_is_coming_to_portland_on_august_9_%28and_everyone_is_going%29.html

[Paka]

1. I grew up in Portland but I'm not there now.

Actually I'm in France at the moment, but I'm trying to get a friend of mine to go. She's registered as an independent and needs to hear him. I'm working on her to reregister and hearing him should be the last push she needs. She's a good liberal.

[99th_Monkey]

2. Totally! My gf just re-registered from Independent TO Democrat

rather ironically, to vote for Bernie. Whatever works I guess.

[Enthusiast]

3. That's the kind of gfs we like.

[Enthusiast]

4. Good work!

[ALBliberal]

5. oh gosh Bernie being compared to Nader? Not in the same league imo.

[99th_Monkey]

6. Agreed It's from the local 'alternative' weekly

very popular & widely read but compulsively snarky, even when they
aren't even trying.

But I liked how they let Portland know "Everyone is going"

They're swamped with RSVPs, may have to move it to a nearby (even larger)
venue holding 20,000.

[SoapBox]

7. I hope, hope, hope that they can get enough RSVP's

to move it to Moda.

This event compared to what I just saw on OregonLive.com...the Annointed One got there today for her $2700 per plate fund raiser...oddly the article says that there are 2700 attendees?!?!

And then she's jetting off (in the loaner private jet) to California...as she has a total of 3 fundraisers today! She certainly is all about the $$$$$$$$$.

Compare that to Bernie talking to tens of thousands of voters about issues that really matter to most Americans.

I'll stick with Bernie.

[99th_Monkey]

8. Hillary clearly knows who her constituency is

and it isn't us "little people"