Another meeting for the Bernie Sanders campaign drew more
than 30 people to help plan for actions in the Wichita area, last Wednesday
night at the Peace and Social Justice Center.
Joan Gedraitis was appointed and approved by the group to
coordinate future meetings. She has spent time in Lawrence
and Kansas City
and can contact people there.
One action discussed was to have a booth at the DemoFest
coming up August 21 and 22. The group also discussed taking part in the
Democrat's Table at the Kansas State Fair in September.
Some members of the group discussed getting pamphlets,
buttons and shirts to advertize the Bernie campaign, from his campaign
headquarters.
Several people discussed being socialist and what that
really means in this country. Bernie has openly said he is a democratic
socialist. There were a lot of democratic socialists present in the Bernie campaign
group. People there also discussed the difficulties
a person has being a leftist of any kind here in Kansas where the politics are usually so conservative.
One member said the Bernie campaign will be positive and
avoid being negative towards other candidates. I have found that negative ads
work real well, but there has been a history of democrats refusing to be negative
in their campaigns in this area.
Also discussed was taking part in the Democrats Caucus.
Jim Phillips said he thought that the caucus for Jesse
Jackson was a good experience and he believes the Bernie campaign will have as
positive an impact as the Jesse Jackson campaign was in past years. -Otto
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