[rad-green] 'When the 99% Stand Together, We Can Transform Society': More Than 11,000 Rally for Sanders in Colorado

*https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/17/when-99-stand-together-we-can-transform-society-more-11000-rally-sanders-colorado
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Dreams          February 17, 2020'When the 99% Stand Together, We Can
Transform Society': More Than 11,000 Rally for Sanders in Colorado*



*"To me, if the Democratic Party picks Bernie, it's more like going home,
to FDR, instead of running to the right like they have been. This is as
American as apple pie."          -- Business analyst Kelly Canfield*

*by Jake Johnson, staff writer*

*Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.) cheer during his campaign rally in Denver, Colorado on February 16,
2020. (Photo: Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images)*

Nearly 11,500 people gathered inside the Colorado Convention Center in
Denver Sunday night to hear Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie
Sanders make the case for Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a $15 federal
minimum wage, and systemic reforms to end "a corrupt political system in
which billionaires buy elections."

"At the end of the day, the top 1% may have enormous wealth and power, but
they are just the 1%. When the 99% stand together, we can transform
society."
—Sen. Bernie Sanders

"We don't go to billionaires' homes to raise money. We don't have a super
PAC," Sanders told the massive crowd. "This is a campaign by the working
class, of the working class, and for the working class."

Sanders' Denver rally was the largest any presidential candidate has held
in Colorado in the 2020 election cycle so far, according to the Vermont
senator's campaign.

"Our campaign has grassroots support across Colorado, we are doing the hard
work of organizing to ensure we win here on Super Tuesday," Pilar Chapa,
Sanders' Colorado state director, said in a statement, referring to the
March 3 primary.

"Our supporters and our volunteers are going to use the momentum from
tonight to expand the electorate," added Chapa, "and bring more people than
ever into the political process."

.@BernieSanders <https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw> takes
the stage at the Colorado Convention Center to roaring applause from a
crowd of thousands. pic.twitter.com/LTZfyuSH9p <https://t.co/LTZfyuSH9p>

— Allie Raffa (@AllieRaffa) February 17, 2020
<https://twitter.com/AllieRaffa/status/1229220185044922368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

During his 30-minute speech, Sanders took aim at President Donald Trump—"a
pathological liar who is running a corrupt administration"—as well as
billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg, a latecomer to the 2020
Democratic presidential race who has spent $350 million
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/11/mega-billionaire-bloombergs-350-million-ad-spending-blitz-what-plutocracy-looks>
on
advertising in an effort to compete in Super Tuesday states like Colorado.

"Democracy to me means one person, one vote," Sanders said. "Not Bloomberg
or anybody else spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buy an
election. And that is why we are going to overturn this disastrous *Citizens
United* Supreme Court decision, and why we are going to move toward public
funding of elections."

"We are going to end a corrupt political system in which billionaires buy
elections. Democracy to me means one person, one vote. Not Bloomberg or
anybody else spending hundreds of millions of dollars trying to buy an
election." https://t.co/XAkorVR2GV pic.twitter.com/Wg3IGkzsc3
<https://t.co/Wg3IGkzsc3>

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) February 17, 2020
<https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1229221488948961280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>

According to <https://twitter.com/alex_burness/status/1229227635298852864>
*Denver
Post* reporter Alex Burness, "perhaps the loudest cheers of the night" came
after Sanders remarked, "The Democratic establishment is getting a little
nervous."

Kelly Canfield, a 57-year-old business analyst from Denver who attended the
rally Sunday, told
<https://www.denverpost.com/2020/02/16/bernie-sanders-denver-colorado-2020-rally/>
Burness he is heartened that Sanders' progressive agenda has gone
mainstream despite continued efforts to paint the senator's candidacy and
policy proposals as fringe.

"It's about time," Canfield said. "None of it is radical. To me, if the
Democratic Party picks Bernie, it's more like going home, to FDR, instead
of running to the right like they have been. This is as American as apple
pie."

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