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If You Always do What You've Always Done, You Always Get What You Always Got (Original Post) Xipe Totec Mar 2016 OP
Speaking of which - feel free to post this out there - check out Bernie endorsements from MI jillan Mar 2016 #1
Hillary is Old School. It's time for a change. That'd be a great bumpersticker snagglepuss Mar 2016 #2

jillan

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1. Speaking of which - feel free to post this out there - check out Bernie endorsements from MI
Wed Mar 2, 2016, 04:42 PM
Mar 2016

This is YUUUUGE esp since the msm only talks about Hillary visiting Flint. http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/02/29/bernie-sanders-picks-detroit-endorsements/81105734/

Flint resident Danielle Green was an undecided Democrat until a private meeting with an attentive U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders won her vote, she said.

“The compassion they showed for the situation,” Green said of what persuaded her during the Feb. 15 meeting with Sanders and his wife at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti. “He didn’t make any promises, which I can respect.

“But he did say he would come to Flint, which he did. So Sen. Sanders has my vote. He’s my guy.”

The Detroit endorsements, mostly from African-American activists and Detroit leaders, came two days after Hillary Clinton on Saturday enjoyed a lopsided primary victory in South Carolina, fueled by an overwhelming advantage among black voters, a key Democratic constituency.

“He has the right policies for our city and our nation,” former Wayne County Commissioner Bernard Parker said of Sanders. “He has shown great judgment calling for Snyder’s resignation, and he did it early.

“We are here today to say the people of Michigan will no longer stand by idle while Snyder forces poison down our children’s throats. We need a new approach to government that only Sen. Sanders can provide
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(seriously - I have been online way too much today, anyone that wants to post this in GDP, please do )
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