David Garcia and supporters call for a Progressive Direction in Arizona at an ASU rally with Sanders

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David Garcia and supporters call for a Progressive Direction in Arizona at an ASU rally with Bernie Sanders


Great enthusiasm filled the David Garcia for Governor Rally in the main gathering room at the Arizona State University Student Pavilion on October 23, 2018 as approximately 700 people heard speaker after speaker (including Dr. Garcia and Senator and 2016 Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders) electrified the crowd and passionately called for everyone to vote for progressive Dr. Garcia and other Democrats and get family, friends, and co-workers to the polls as well.

Recounting the issues facing our country and the potential progressive solutions including the need to bring us together, making health care an indisputable right, fully funding all levels of education, growing the economy with a green energy component, and protecting the civil rights of everyone, speaker after speaker (including ASU Young Democrat leader Jesse Avalos, 2014 Teacher of the Year Beth Hutchins Maloney, the Garcia Field Director, Representative Ruben Gallego, former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, Civil Rights Advocate Delores Huerta, and Sanders) enthusiastically called on the audience to spread the word about the Gubernatorial candidacy of David Garcia and how he would fight for the issues important to the people. Senator Turner, a leader in Senator Sanders organization Our Revolution was especially effective talking of a time of “transcendence” invoking the names of Nelson Mandela and Harriet Tubman to illustrate how their experiences should be applied to the present in changing the current course of the country.

A campaign infomercial served as the introduction for Dr. Garcia who told the audience how his life experiences in the military, in education, and politics had prepared him to be Governor. Saying that he “is here today thanks to a great public education,” Dr. Garcia chastised the Governorship of Doug Ducey and his reelection campaign, especially their assertions that he would be weak on the border commenting that “I served in the military while Governor Ducey served ice cream” and reassuring the audience that earlier had chanted his name a phrase he learned in the military “I have your back” finishing with the proclamation that “defending our borders should not be a political issue.”

On education, Dr. Garcia commented, “75,000 teachers had to march to Governor Ducey’s front door for him to listen” to their needs and concerns. Garcia vowed to be the most committed Arizona Governor to public education including the college and university system, which he vowed to make as free as possible according to the State Constitution.

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