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CBS News: "New Hampshire activist fights for Sanders while fighting cancer"
link; excerpt:MANCHESTER, New Hampshire -- When Bernie Sanders concluded yet another fiery speech at the New Hampshire Jefferson-Jackson dinner over Thanksgiving weekend, he hurried off the stage. True to form, the sometimes irascible Vermont senator had little time for pictures and glad-handing with his legions of fans. But backstage, he made the time to chat with one his most vocal supporters and one of the best-connected Democratic activists in the state.
Pushed around in a wheelchair by her son, Jane Lang wore a Bernie Sanders button and her signature fuchsia lipstick. She was feeling tired and ready to go home, rather than stay and listen to Hillary Clinton and Martin O'Malley address the Democratic faithful. But Lang beamed while she and Sanders chatted in a hold room, surrounded by top staffers, and reminisced about the first time they met at a labor meeting this year and snapped photos.
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"I think the fact that here we have this one woman who seemed to be involved in politics and knows a lot but felt like I couldn't reach out to her. Felt that I couldn't go to her with this problem."
Ultimately, it was Sanders who seemed more like a kindred spirit, so she chose him.
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Sanders supporters throughout the Verizon Center's convention hall sported white pins with black font that read "I STAND WITH JANE."
"Those were actually made by the Bernie campaign because his wife is named Jane," Lang recalled. "But they tell me a different story. That they were actually made for me. That they are standing with me through this time."
Julia Barnes, Sanders New Hampshire state director, called Lang "a badass organizer and a pillar of her community."
Barnes said, "Whatever she does, whether it is starting and growing the Salem Farmers' Market to working to protect seniors' rights with the Alliance for Retired Americans to always supporting Democratic candidates in New Hampshire, from state reps to Bernie Sanders, she does it with her whole heart."
