The Bronx is Berning. Or starting to.

[Smarmie Doofus]

Things are starting to come together here, as we look past Super Tuesday. And local media is starting to pick-up on it. Don't worry; we'll still be here. NY Primary is April 19. Petitioning starts on , I believe, 27th of Dec. ( Bring a batch to your NY Eve Party, maybe? )

Brooklyn thinks it OWNS Bernie. I say "Hah!" You hear me? HAH! ( That goes for you too, VT.!)

>>>Barry Knittle said he woke up at 5:30 a.m. on Dec. 18 to begin work on two signs. For almost 10 hours, he wove strings of lights through the 2-foot-by-6-foot placards. Once the lights were in place and the posters sat side by side, they radiated the message, “Bernie 2016.”

Mr. Knittle made the signs as part of the evening’s Light Brigade, a nationwide event organized by Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Between 30 and 40 groups met around the country to illuminate the night with messages of support for the Democratic candidate, who is waging an uphill battle against the party’s favorite in the contest, Hillary Clinton. Last week’s event was the only one in the Bronx to be found on a website for Mr. Sanders’ campaign.

“I’ve been waiting my whole life for someone like Bernie,” said Jeff Krasiner, who commuted from Queens to partake in the canvassing. A number of campaign pins and buttons decorated Mr. Krasiner’s wardrobe for the evening and he said his fashionable endorsement for Mr. Sanders is still a work in progress.

“Every meeting, there’s a different button,” he explained.

A group of about 10 supporters gathered at the Bronx Ale House on West 238th Street around 4 p.m. and explained why Mr. Sanders was their man.

“It goes back to when I was a kid with FDR, the best president I ever saw in my life. Bernie is very similar,” said Riverdale resident Bob Molgrom.

“And he’s bringing class back into the discourse along with other forms of diversity,” concurred Mr. Molgrom’s wife, Doris Maat.
rest at: http://www.riverdalepress.com/stories/Sanders-supporters-spread-word-above-the-Deegan,58781

[Proserpina]

1. The Home Town advantage!

[George II]

3. Sanders is from Brooklyn, not the Bronx, and it hasn't been his "hometown" for 50+ years.

[roguevalley]

5. doesn't matter. I am from the rogue valley and I haven't been living there for 40 years

but its still my home. What a paltry slam.

[Chef Eric]

6. Yet there seem to be people in the Bronx who want to claim him.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bronx-For-Bernie-Sanders/960040500725199

https://www.facebook.com/bronx4bernie

I guess these people aren't very satisfied with their former senator.

[artislife]

9. So Hillary claims NY and she was barely a resident when she ran for senator.

Of course, she's a Southern, a Pennsylvanian and who knows where else she's from...the 2008 was a mini tour of states, is all I can remember! lol

[SMC22307]

11. Pennsylvanian? I missed that!

Do you happen to know what she's claiming? I thought she was a native Chicagoan. Er, -ite?

[artislife]

12. I think it was her grandfather and the good times they had shooting guns...nt

[SMC22307]

13. Ah, right you are. She went after Obama with it...

....

In her 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton stayed nearly silent on guns. An exception was after Obama’s “cling to guns” comment surfaced, when she attacked him as being “elitist” and fondly recalled her father teaching her to shoot as a little girl at her grandfather’s Pennsylvania lake house.

....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-makes-big-gun-control-pitch-marking-shift-in-presidential-politics/2015/07/09/4309232c-2580-11e5-b72c-2b7d516e1e0e_story.html

[JackInGreen]

2. inb4 our 1%s supporting hillary start going off about how entrenched local support is

and how much they give, and how these people don't REALLY matter.

[JonathanRackham]

4. I was thinking along the lines of NYC being a uphill battle.

NYC is an entrenched network of endorsing candidates and big business donors. RINOs, DINOs, all a big crap sandwich. I'm looking forward to Bernie breaking through the political constipation barriers.

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. Largely true. But I detect a change in the political weather. Mainly due to this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preet_Bharara

My own personal Santie Claus.

[artislife]

10. I know, we have been able to read all about that from some of our posters. nt

[jwirr]

7. K&R