Bernie Sanders Stands With LA Mayoral Candidate, US Rep. Karen BassLOS ANGELES—With a little under two weeks until the Nov. 8 election, Mayoral Candidate and U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) appeared on stage with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Oct. 27, establishing herself as the most progressive candidate running to govern the second most populous city in the United States.
Organized by the California Working Families Party—a grassroots progressive organization—against the Republicans, the "Bernie for Bass" rally drew hundreds of people to Central Park in the evening, with both Bass and Sanders giving impassioned speeches on homelessness, crime, abortion, and wages.
"The cost of rent, and the cost of living, means working two or three jobs and barely getting by," Bass told the crowd of supporters. "And it means more and more people falling into homelessness every day, but if we don't act now, if we don't win this election, we will return to the day of failed solutions, shelters, and warehouses locking people up, criminalizing poverty—we're not doing it again."...
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