P.O.P ANNOUNCES HISTORICAL SUPPORT FOR BERNIE SANDERS’ CAMPAIGN!
On Thursday, January 21st, the General Assembly of the People’s Organization for Progress announced that it would break with its long-standing policy of not supporting candidates for office and would support the bid of Bernie Sanders for the Presidency of the United States!
The decision to do so only came down after a rigorous debate and careful consideration.
Only on rare, historically significant occasions has the organization departed from this policy.
In 2008 and in 2012, the organization voted to endorse the campaigns of Barack Obama, the first African-American President. In 2014, the organization voted to endorse the campaign of Mayor Ras Baraka.
Sanders, who is probably best known to Black voters for having had a campaign rally stopped by young Black Lives Matter activists, has by far, the most left leaning stance on all of the issues, especially Economic and Racial Justice issues, the issues that matter most to the organization and its proud and vocal identity under the leadership of their indefatigable founding chairman Lawrence Hamm.
“Bernie Sanders is the first self-described socialist to ever have gotten this close to the Presidency of the United States,” said Hamm on the historical significance of Sanders’ candidacy.
“While we should be deeply concerned by how Republican candidates like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have taken the Republican Party so far to the right, we, on the left, should be just as active as they are and should give serious consideration to how the Sanders campaign could possibly take the Democratic Party from the center right to the left.
“I’m glad that our general assembly recognized this pending historical possibility with their decision.”
Hamm personally came out for the Sanders campaign several weeks ago…
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THE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS
PO BOX 22505
NEWARK, NJ 07101
973 801 0001
CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM
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