With nearly twice the turn-out of his opponent's kick-off event, Senator Sanders was bringing the crowd to its feet in Madison tonight.
And the News Wires are taking note of the keen enthusiasm, that was in attendance ...
Bernie Sanders Draws Big Crowd to Wisconsin Rally
by Colleen McCain Nelson, Wall Street Journal, wsj.com -- July 1, 2015
MADISON, Wis. – Nearly 10,000 supporters delivered a jolt of momentum to Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign Wednesday night at a supersize rally where the senator from Vermont asked his backers to help him create a political revolution.
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In his remarks, Mr. Sanders railed against what he called the “billionaire class,” saying that most people in the U.S. don’t feel like they live in the richest country on earth because the wealth is concentrated among very few people.
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Mr. Sanders pledged to fight on behalf of workers, calling for guaranteed family and medical leave, paid vacation and a renewed union movement. He also said he would break up the largest financial institutions in the country, telling supporters that “If a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.”
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I think, this is how political revolutions
get started ...
Link to video -- and live blog commentary.
Calling the Madison event 'historic' -- Senator Sanders appealed to his audience's sense of What's Possible -- 'when we all stand together'.
Bernie Sanders draws nearly 10,000 supporters in Wisconsin (with Video)
by Dan Merica, CNN -- July 1, 2015
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"Tonight we have made a little bit of history," he said. "You may know that some 25 candidates are running for president of the United States, but tonight we have more people at a meeting for a candidate for president of the United States than any other candidate has."
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"What I would like to ask of you: Please think big, not small," Sanders said, referring to the audience as his "brothers and sisters."
Calling for a "political revolution," Sanders added, "there is nothing that we cannot accomplish."
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During the speech, Senator Sanders said of that "political revolution" that we need to see a vast
'organized grass-roots movement' take hold, in order to motivate Congress to finally act in behalf of working Americans.
A grass-roots movement across the Nation of Bernie supporters would be something that they cannot just ignore for long. Try as they may.
Today's audience is just the beginning ... of The American People finally being heard.