Sanders riding momentum as Texas voting begins

[leftcoastmountains]

But, as he has nationally, Sanders, a 74-year-old independent senator from Vermont, is waging an unexpectedly potent assault in Texas by tapping into widespread anger over Wall Street corruption, pay-for-play politics, social inequality and other ills.

League, 45, wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with “Bern the White House” in a mock presidential seal, said he and his wife, Karrie, are aligned with Sanders because of his promised reforms of big banking and the nation’s campaign finance system. “One thing that really bothered us was the 2008 financial crisis and the fact that nobody went to jail over it,” he said.

Those on board the Sanders bandwagon include an eclectic mix of longtime Democratic progressives — former Texas Agriculture Commissioner and nationally known populist Jim Hightower is one of Sanders’ leading surrogates — as well as college students and other young people, many of them first-time participants in political activism.

“It really is a broad coalition. That’s not just a talking point,” said state campaign director Jacob Limon, who is on leave of absence as chief of staff for Democratic State Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth to run Sanders’ operations in Texas.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/election/article60280821.html

[Blus4u]

1. I look forward to the TX Primary.

Mrs. Blus4u and I moved to the DFW area about a year and a half ago and the state could use more progressive thinking.

Peace