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Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders held three campaign events in West Virginia on Thursday, May 5. At his final stop in Morgantown, Sanders’ focus on student loan debt was well-received by the many college students in the crowd.
As the crowd of several thousand people made its way into the Morgantown Event Center Thursday night, it was striking how wide a cross-section of society was represented – young and old, black and white, dreadlocked and clean cut.
One man was holding a “Republicans for Bernie” sign.
Megan Collins’s glitter-filled sign read “Bernie in, BS out.”
She says Sanders’ message resonates with her on a very personal level.
“For me, Bernie’s not a politician, he is a person. And to me, that’s what could best represent America,” She said. “We don’t need someone who’s feeding us what we need to hear. We need someone who has their opinion, feels that they’re representing the people and wants to listen to the people.”
Collins was with a group of social work students who stood behind Sanders during his speech.
They, like many of the young people in the crowd, responded enthusiastically when Sanders talked about taxing Wall Street to make college tuition free in the U.S.
“It seems to me now, in 2016, that it is absolutely appropriate that we impose a tax on Wall Street speculation,” Sanders said. “And that tax would more than pay for making public colleges and universities tuition-free and substantially lowering student debt.”
Sanders also touched on many of his other campaign-trail standbys. He talked about closing America’s income gap, the urgent need to deal with climate change and getting help for those who have lost jobs during coal’s decline.
He also discussed America’s opioid epidemic and his belief that addiction should be treated as a mental-health issue, not a criminal one.
On this episode of The Legislature Today, the state budget continues to work its way through the West Virginia Legislature. We recently heard from Sen. Jason Barrett, R-Berkeley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Del. Clay Riley, a Harrison County Republican and vice chairman of the House Finance Committee. This time, News Director Eric Douglas sits down with Sean O’Leary, senior policy analyst at West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, to discuss the state’s budget from an analyst’s perspective.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this episode of The Legislature Today, the House of Delegates for more than two hours debated a bill that would require public schools to accept religious vaccine exemptions. But Senate Bill 460 was rejected, 56-42.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, camping bans have popped up around the United States, which critics say unfairly target people experiencing homelessness. One possible ban has Morgantown residents feeling frustrated.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this episode of The Legislature Today, WVPB reporters Jack Walker, Emily Rice and Curtis Tate discuss what legislation their following in this week's reporter roundtable.
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