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Donkees's JournalBernie Sanders, who arrives shortly for 3 events in upstate S.C., is announcing 8 S.C. endorsements:
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Bernie Sanders: Here's what has to change in South Carolina and the nation
Bernie Sanders, Submitted opinion-editorial Published 7:06 a.m. ET April 18, 2019
Editor's note: Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for president in 2020. He submitted this op-ed in advance of his visit to the Upstate Thursday and Friday.
Excerpt:
This week, I am visiting South Carolina to learn more about the challenges facing Upstate residents, especially in public education, criminal justice and rural issues. I want to find out about how we can work together to address some of the state’s most serious problems, and reach people in communities that have been left behind.
Across this country, teachers have been on strike because they are badly underpaid. They lack basic supplies, work in rundown classrooms, and their professional expertise is undermined by excessive standardized testing that takes the joy out of learning. Far too many are leaving the profession entirely.
These dynamics have reached crisis levels in South Carolina, where public schools lag behind national averages in reading, writing and job preparedness. Many schools are racially segregated, and magnet and charter schools are drawing resources and high-performing students away. Meanwhile, amid cuts in funding for school programs, one in five children in South Carolina is going without meals.
This year, the situation has become an emergency. The start of school saw a 16 percent increase in unfilled teacher vacancies, and teacher pay was well below the national average. Adding insult to injury, under President Trump’s new budget, South Carolina would lose $28 million of grants to help high-poverty schools boost teacher salaries. Overall, South Carolina’s public education system would lose roughly $246 million under the Trump budget, denying 14,000 students access to after-school programs.
https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/2019/04/18/bernie-sanders-heres-what-has-change-south-carolina-and-nation/3495182002/
https://twitter.com/GreenvilleNews/status/1118838836446945281
CNN: Bernie Sanders beat Beto O'Rourke in a key fundraising measure
By Fredreka Schouten and David Wright, CNN
Updated 1:28 PM ET, Wed April 17, 2019
Excerpt:
A CNN analysis of newly filed campaign-finance reports shows several Democratic candidates raised general-election funds -- available only if they capture the nomination -- alongside the money they can use in the primary battle.
Lumping in an extra $300,000 into his first-day haul allowed O'Rourke, for instance, to claim a larger first day windfall than rival Sanders, who reported raising $5.9 million in the first 24 hours of his presidential bid. But Sanders, who raised only primary money, has more cash available for the fight at hand, the new figures show. O'Rourke's aides did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
In the 2020 election, a presidential candidate can raise up to maximum of $2,800 from an individual for the primary election. Money that supporters contribute above that amount is set aside for the general election.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/17/politics/beto-orourke-bernie-sanders-q1-white-house-fundraising/index.html
Presidential candidates' first quarter receipts, by category
2020 presidential election: Track every candidate's Q1 fundraising totalsApril 15 at midnight was the deadline for 2020 presidential candidates to upload their fundraising disclosures for the first quarter of 2019 to the Federal Election Commission.
Why it matters: Early fundraising totals are an indicator of candidates' capacity to power a national presidential campaign that rely largely on name recognition and enthusiasm. The number of individual donors each candidate reports will be viewed as especially important in this cycle's Democratic primary as a measure of grassroots support.
https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-election-campaign-fundraising-tracker-e37049f7-f596-40d5-a7d2-bff3d3940d86.html
RADHYA ALMUTAWAKEL By Bernie Sanders - TIME100 issue
When I met Yemeni human-rights defender Radhya Almutawakel last year, just before the Senate’s historic vote to end U.S. support for the Yemen war, I was struck by the clarity she brought to a conflict that too few have noticed. Yemen faces the world’s worst humanitarian crisis not because of natural disaster, she told me, but because of man-made armed conflict: “Yemenis are not starving, they are being starved.”
Four years into the Saudi-led coalition’s war against the Houthi rebels, Mwatana, the organization that Radhya co-founded, has documented hundreds of abuses by all sides. Houthi forces indiscriminately attack civilian neighborhoods. Coalition airstrikes kill and maim thousands. The U.S. has continued to sell the Saudis billions of dollars in weapons. Mwatana documents the results.
Radhya and her colleagues face risks every day to uncover the human costs of war. For leading this work, Radhya Almutawakel deserves recognition as one of the truly courageous among us.
Sanders, a Senator from Vermont, is a Democratic presidential candidate
http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567676/radhya-almutawakel/
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1118568832468230144
HCA Healthcare Stock Sinks - Senator Sanders' Fox News town hall Monday only made things worse
By Tatiana Darie
April 16, 2019, 3:48 PM EDT Updated on April 16, 2019, 4:18 PM EDT
Excerpt:
The company’s shares shed $4 billion in market value on Tuesday as concerns about universal health-care coverage spread to the hospital industry. Analysts who cover HCA, the largest and most-widely owned hospital operator, have remained notably silent, sticking to their ratings and issuing no commentary on the 10 percent move.
Reports that audiences cheered the government-run system proposal as it was being discussed by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont at a Fox News town hall on Monday only made things worse.
“The market is ascribing an inordinately high probability that some form of Medicare-for-All proposal could become reality,” Cowen analyst Charles Rhyee wrote in a note. The problem is that even support among centrist Democrats is “noticeably absent” and the proposal would likely see strong resistance from doctors and hospitals, said Rhyee, who covers health insurers.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-16/hca-healthcare-stuns-street-with-worst-plunge-since-16-election
Bernie's Fox News Town Hall Was a Ratings Smash.
Gideon Resnick
04.16.19 2:56 PM ET
Excerpt:
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) Monday evening Fox News town-hall event was the most-watched town-hall event of the 2020 campaign thus far, according to early Nielsen data. And at least three other Democratic candidates are open to participating in one of their own.
According to early Nielsen data, more than 2.5 million viewers tuned in to hear Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist,” make his case on Fox News during the 6:30pm hour, prior to primetime. That total viewership bested CNN’s Bernie Sanders town-hall event from back in February; and it doubled MSNBC’s during the same time period on Monday evening, and nearly tripled CNN’s.
Additionally, per Nielsen, Fox’s Sanders event brought in 489,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54—a key demographic for cable-news advertisers—trouncing CNN’s 281,000 tally and MSNBC’s 208,000.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/bernie-sanders-fox-news-town-hall-was-a-ratings-smash-as-pete-buttigieg-and-other-democrats-consider-one/
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🔸Podcast: Hear the Bern - Episode 2 - Busting Trump's Healthcare Myths
https://www.blubrry.com/hear_the_bern/43311557/busting-trumps-healthcare-myths/
Following the rollout of Bernie's new Medicare for All bill, Briahna takes on the many myths that critics use to attack universal healthcare. Campaign staffers share their own healthcare ordeals. And Dr. Heather Gautney, a senior policy advisor with the campaign, argues that, while Medicare for All might not be a “silver bullet” for every problem in the US healthcare system, it is an absolutely necessary first step.
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