Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumOrganizers of Beto O'Rourke visit to Newtown apologize for not including some Sandy Hook families
Not everyone in Newtown was pleased with Democratic presidential candidate Beto ORourkes visit on Wednesday evening.
ORourke spoke to hundreds of gun control activists in Newtown, not far from the site of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The event was sponsored by the Newtown Action Alliance, a group of activists supporting gun control. But organizers apparently did not include Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose daughter Ana was murdered during the Sandy Hook attack.
In a series of tweets Wednesday night and Thursday, Marquez-Greene said certain families were excluded from the event. She also thanked ORourke for intervening and making sure the event was open to all Sandy Hook families.
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The Newtown Action Alliance, which organized the event, tweeted an apology Wednesday evening. "We will make that all the families are invited next time,'' the group said. This is a genuine apology.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
liskddksil
(2,753 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)His passion and eloquence on a broad range of topics would deny it as such.
I wish his primary campaign had caught on in TX (and the US) with the same fire it did in his state senate run. But Beto is young (relatively) and there are more campaigns and victories ahead of him.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden