Berkshirites turn out in droves for Bernie Sanders rally at UMass

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Last edited Sat Jan 2, 2016, 10:28 PM - Edit history (1)

Dozens of Berkshires residents headed east on Saturday to "feel the Bern" up close in personal as Sen. Bernie Sanders took his presidential campaign and progressive activism to the University of Massachusetts.

An hour-and-a-half long speech saw the 74-year-old candidate pushing populist social causes, single-payer health care and a trillion-plus dollar federal jobs plan at home, restraint in the use of force abroad and action on climate change.

"The guy is genuine," Pittsfield resident Chris Thomson, who attended the rally, said. "Everything he said resonates."

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"He kept calling it a 'political revolution,' and I never really thought of things that way, but he's right," Pittsfield resident Ellyn Brown said. "In order to make the changes we need in this country there needs to be a revolution against all that isn't working."

http://www.reformer.com/latestnews/ci_29336462/berkshirites-turn-out-droves-bernie-sanders-rally-at


Overflow crowd in Amherst, MA is massive!
https://twitter.com/SymoneDSanders


U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, greets thousands of supporters Saturday at a rally at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. (Stephanie Zollshan — The Berkshire Eagle)
http://www.reformer.com/portlet/article/html/render_gallery.jsp?articleId=29336462&siteId=510&startImage=1

[SoapBox]

1. More hundreds/thousands today for Bernie!

And I'll lay odds that they will vote with enthusiasm.

[intheflow]

2. First sentence is deceiving - thousands turned out for the event.

Which it says further in the article. The dozens are just from the Berkshires, a much lower number drawn from those who drove an hour or two from west of UMass Amherst.

Edited to add: I'm just correcting the regionalism of the reporting, here, for DUers outside the area who may not realize the Bernie event didn't happen in the Berkshires. Which is why the first sentence is misleading. Obviously, the sentence says dozens attended from the Berkshires.

[in_cog_ni_to]

3. THAT is the overflow crowd??

OMG! It's a massive crowd!

I can't say I've ever seen that size crowd at any HRH rally and that's just the people who couldn't get in the building.

Bernie's going to be our nominee!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Fawke Em]

5. Not that many come out to see tRump, either. eom

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4. Where does he get the energy to do these events?

He is amazing.