[WASHINGTONTIMES] Grass-roots activists are ramping up pressure on Sen. Bernard Sanders to appear at a town hall meeting next month to discuss launching a new progressive party and severing ties with the Democrats.
Nick Brana, founder of Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, said in an email blast on Wednesday that "progressives across the country are waiting to see if Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
will sit down with the working people who fought and sacrificed for him in 2016" and also said the group could reschedule.
The email comes two weeks after the group sent Mr. Sanders and members of his staff a letter informing him that activists plan to deliver 50,000 signatures to his congressional office on Friday, Sept. 8, asking him to become the face of a new party and to attend a "Draft Bernie Town Hall" event at a three-day "Convergence Conference" that is slated to kickoff that day at American University. |