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cal04

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Sun Aug 23, 2015, 09:14 PM Aug 2015

Become a Billboard for Bernie!1,000 filled the gym and an adjacent cafeteria

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You are looking at one candidate for president who does not have a super
PAC and I’m damn proud of that,”
Bernie Sanders told a gymnasium full of supporters in Salem, New
Hampshire, on Sunday night. It was one if the first big applause
lines of a town meeting at a middle school.

Instead of being bankrolled by millionaires and billionaires, Sanders’
surging campaign is being fueled by huge turnouts at rallies and town
meetings like the one at Woodbury Middle School. In this small
southern New Hampshire town, some 1,000 people filled the gym and an
adjacent cafeteria, Fire Marshal Jeff Emanuelson estimated.

In addition to drawing bigger crowds than any other candidate for the
White House, the Sanders campaign has another distinction. The
campaign has been funded by a lot of donors who gave what little they
could afford. In the few months since the launch date, more than
400,000 people have donated to the campaign. The average contribution
is $31.20


“They have the money but we have the people and when the people stand
together there is nothing we can’t accomplish,” Sanders said. “This
country belongs to all of us and not just a handful of billionaires.”

One way for a people-powered campaign to match and even overcome all
of the Super PAC money being larded out to other candidates was
suggested by one of the speakers who introduced the senator in Salem.

“Become a human billboard for Bernie,” Ben Cohen urged the crowd.

The brainstorm came from one of the Vermont businessmen who built Ben
and Jerry’s ice cream into a world-famous brand. He knows a thing or
two about marketing.

It’s that simple, Ben Cohen said. Everyone at the school, every one
who has showed up at big rallies, everyone who has given $31 to the
campaign, everyone who supports the campaign to rebuild the middle
class and take on the billionaire class can all do one more thing to
spread the word: Become a human billboard for Bernie.

https://berniesanders.com/become-a-billboard-for-bernie/



Bernie Sanders speaking to one of his two overflow rooms in Salem, NH.
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Become a Billboard for Bernie!1,000 filled the gym and an adjacent cafeteria (Original Post) cal04 Aug 2015 OP
I love Ben Cohen, Bernie has the best people endorsing him. And what a great idea. sabrina 1 Aug 2015 #1
Total K & R SoapBox Aug 2015 #2
Huge K&R! Paka Aug 2015 #3

Paka

(2,760 posts)
3. Huge K&R!
Mon Aug 24, 2015, 04:28 AM
Aug 2015

I love it. Make sure everyone you know, meet, pass greetins with, whatever, knows everything there is about Bernie. It's that simple.

Talk him up wherever you go, whoever you connect with.

Talking, walking billboards everywhere.

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