Middletown leaders endorse U.S. Sen. Sanders for president

[Uncle Joe]

MIDDLETOWN — Several Democratic elected officials, including the mayor, have endorsed U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, for the upcoming 2020 presidential primary.

Mayor Ben Florsheim, Deputy Mayor Vinnie Loffredo, common councilors Darnell Ford and Ed McKeon, Board of Education member Lisa Loomis and Planning and Zoning Commissioner Kellin Atherton will host a Middletown for Bernie event Monday, according to a press release.

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“We are facing some of the most significant challenges in our country’s history. Climate change. A student debt crisis. A president who empowers hate. An economic system where, in the richest country in the world, people are dying because they can’t afford things like housing and health care, Florsheim said in a prepared statement.

“It is critical that we meet this moment not with politics as usual, but with a lasting, organized push for real change. We need to elect a movement — not just a president. Bernie is the person who can lead that movement into power, so we can defeat Donald Trump, confront our toughest challenges, and achieve our highest goals,” he added.

“I’m not just proud to support Bernie Sanders for president — I’m inspired,” Loffredo said in the statement. “We are at a pivotal moment in history where we can succumb to crisis and greed, or where we can build the world our children and children’s children deserve. From Medicare for All, to the Green New Deal, to the Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education,”

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https://www.middletownpress.com/middletown/article/Middletown-leaders-endorse-U-S-Sen-Sanders-for-15016768.php

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1. Population 334

You read that right. This article contains more characters than the town has people. And of those 334, how many are eligible to vote, and how many of those will attend the Democratic caucus?

An awful lot of press for a teeny tiny event. But go Middletown.

[Donkees]

2. Middletown, Connecticut