{"id":15810,"date":"2015-08-10T13:06:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15810"},"modified":"2015-08-10T13:06:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T20:06:23","slug":"bernie-in-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/10\/bernie-in-portland\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie in Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night Bernie Sanders filled the arena, where the Portland Trail Blazers play basketball, and his rally was piped to thousands more, outside the venue.  I received an offer to buy tickets a couple weeks ago, and I was tempted, but from the place where one gets off the MAX train to the best seats is over a mile, and the cheap seats are much further.  So I had to pass.  But I stayed up late last night to watch the video, and I trust you will want to watch it too.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0810BerniePortland\"Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ insurgent campaign for president received a big boost Sunday when as many as 28,000 showed up<\/strong> for a high-decibel rally at the Moda Center.<\/p>\n

The crowd packed the basketball arena \u2013 with a capacity of up to 19,000 — as thousands more couldn’t get inside and listened in on loudspeakers. A Moda Center official, Michael Lewellen, estimated the crowd at the free event totaled 28,000.<\/p>\n

"Portland, you have done it better than anyone else<\/strong>," Sanders said as he opened a speech that lasted a full hour.<\/p>\n

Sanders, who has been attracting the biggest crowds of any of presidential candidates this year with his slashing attacks on big corporations and the wealthy, vowed to push for a full range of cradle-to-grave benefits.<\/p>\n

The senator received waves of thunderous applause as he vowed to fight for universal health benefits, paid family leave, paid sick leave, free public college tuition, a $15 minimum wage, expanded Social Security benefits and a major public works program to rebuild crumbling infrastructure\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Oregonian<\/a>><\/p>\n

Bernie should not have been surprised that Oregon leads the way.  We usually do.  Here\u2019s the complete video.  I searched high and low for a transcript, but was unable to find one.  I\u2019m sorry.  Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n