Bernie Sanders Supports Keith Ellison and Peggy Flanagan
By Darby Sauer-Drlaca
Full Range Media
Duluth’s Lincoln Park Middle School gymnasium was packed with people for the DFL Get Out the Vote Rally with Bernie Sanders, Peggy Flanagan, and Keith Ellison on Saturday, October 24. The campaign was part of Sanders’ ongoing “Fight the Oligarchy” tour. The theme of the evening was policy in favor of working people, with an emphasis on getting out to vote on November third.
Attorney General Keith Ellison
Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison was the first of the three headline speakers to take the podium to raucous applause from a captivated audience. Ellison is campaigning on the slogan “afford your life,” a reference to his successful lawsuits against what he termed “corporate greed.”
Following a list of promises if reelected, including plans to sue Meta, Google, and TikTok, among others, and a promise to fight to make deepfake child nudification illegal, Ellison passed the podium to Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan with a rallying remark that “a better future is really only ten days away.”
Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan
Flanagan took the stage to a crowd with much the same energy that welcomed Ellison. Flanagan made her introductions in Ojibwe and spoke of her connection to the White Earth Wolf Clan before diving into her talking points. First of which was to “lift up Native organizers.” Additional talking points included the cost of living, corruption, and ICE before Flanagan turned her attention to her opponent, Michelle Tafoya.
Audience attention began to wane for the first time in the evening as Flanagan continued to address Tafoya’s campaign. The bout of mild inattention was short-lived, however, when a declaration of “I have never been more proud to call Minnesota my home” overtook the crowd with a standing ovation and chants of “Peggy, Peggy.” The audience’s recovered energy only grew as Flanagan began to wind down her speech with a list of campaign promises, each one harder to hear over the cheers than the last, a touching tribute to the late Minnesota U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, and a final plea to vote on November 3 before passing the microphone to the star of the evening, Senator Bernie Sanders.
Senator Bernie Sanders
Senator Bernie Sanders took the stage at Lincoln Park Middle School in Duluth at approximately 8:02 PM on Saturday to the loudest and longest-lasting applause of the evening. Phones went up all around the gym just to snap a photo of the 85-year-old senator from Vermont. Sanders, not missing a beat, dove right into his rhetoric, reminding the now captive audience that “The majority party calls the tunes.” As he discussed talking points and Democratic campaign promises, his refrain, “If you want [change], then the only way to do that is by ending Republican control over U.S. Congress,” always drew an overwhelmingly excited response.
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