{"id":15487,"date":"2015-06-22T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15487"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:19:40","slug":"bernie-wowed-denver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/bernie-wowed-denver\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Wowed Denver!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ve absorbed so much bad news in the last week that I feel like the <em>dawg<\/em> hired to be the scratching post at a cat convention.&#160; Recently, the best way to spell \u201cGood News\u201d is B-E-R-N-I-E!!&#160; So here he is, including a one hour video.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0622BernieDen\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0622BernieDen\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/0622BernieDen.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"270\" \/>Breathing a progressive political fire, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ignited Colorado supporters with a blistering condemnation of billionaires and corporations, drawing a crowd of nearly 5,000 to Denver \u2014 the largest of his Democratic presidential campaign since the May kickoff.<\/p>\n<p>The 73-year-old Independent spoke for an hour and hit a nerve on economic issues as he advocated for an end to income inequality as well as a higher minimum wage, pay equity for women and more government spending on infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What we are doing tonight is we are sending a message to the billionaire class and that is: You can&#8217;t have it all!&quot; Sanders said, shouting to a crowd that filled a University of Denver gymnasium and spilled onto a nearby lacrosse field. &quot;The unquenchable greed of the billionaire class is destroying this nation and it has got to end.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The size and energy of the crowd \u2014 which gave Sanders numerous standing ovations and repeatedly chanted his name \u2014 reflected a craving among some in the Democratic Party for an alternative to 2016 front-runner Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and first lady\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_28353535\/sanders-delivers-blistering-condemnation-business-billionaires\" target=\"_blank\">Denver Post<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qd0oIYdwesQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Enjoy!!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019ve absorbed so much bad news in the last week that I feel like the dawg hired to be the scratching post at a cat convention.&#160; Recently, the best way to spell \u201cGood News\u201d is B-E-R-N-I-E!!&#160; So here he is, including a one hour video. Breathing a progressive political <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/bernie-wowed-denver\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}