by Otto
A large crowd turned out last night (Wednesday) for a live
pod cast of Bernie Sanders, at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex
of Wichita State University. About 90
people attended the event, which was hosted by Jim Phillips and Dotty Billings.
Both hosts have worked in Democratic Socialists of America.
The majority of the audience was interested in supporting
the local campaign for Bernie Sanders, presently the independent senator from Vermont . After the pod
cast Phillips explained that WSU had a NEW policy against any kind of fund
raising or organizing on the campus. This new policy has come down after pressure
from conservative politicians who tried to use the campus for their own fund
raising, earlier.
Phillips invited the crow to go to the Peace and Social
Justice Center, for an organizational meeting. There were about 25 people went
to the organization meeting and many were young people there, even members of
the Young Democrats. Discussions focused mostly on reaching out to the
Democratic Party in the Wichita area and other
parts of Kansas .
The campaign will focus a lot on young voters.
So far there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm in this area
for building a movement to get Sanders (or Bernie as his supporters call him)
on the ballot and elected in the primary.
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