Sanders’ campaign is planning a rally next Tuesday, March 3, at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction, according to two town officials and a third source with direct knowledge of the plans. Campaign spokesperson Sarah Ford later confirmed it.
The rally would come as results arrive from the 14 states that vote on Super Tuesday. With roughly a third of the delegates to the Democratic National Convention on the line, a solid showing by Sanders could solidify his grasp on the nomination.
Planning is well under way, town officials said Tuesday. Lt. Robert Kissinger of the Essex Police Department said his agency is in discussions with the Expo over logistics, though “nothing has been finalized.” According to Town Clerk Susan McNamara-Hill, Halvorson’s Upstreet Cafe has requested a liquor permit for a “Bernie Sanders rally” next Tuesday at the Expo.
The campaign later announced details of the event: Doors open at 5:30 and the program begins at 7:30. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. Those interested in attending can RSVP here.
During his 2016 presidential race, Sanders held a Super Tuesday rally at the same location. Some 4,000 people attended that event, which featured speeches from Vermont politicians and music from Ben Folds and local artists.
Sanders has held just one other public campaign event in Vermont since joining the 2020 race: a Memorial Day Weekend rally in Montpelier last May.
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Can’t wait to see what the Burlington PD will charge the Sanders campaign for the extra police coverage.
Given inflation, it should be above the
$8500.00 amount charged to the Trump campaign.
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Inquiring minds will be watching to see if Burlington treats all political parties the same.
At least Bernie pays his bills.
Yeah Jimmy, inquiring minds will definitely wanna know, considering the rally is taking place in ESSEX so it’d be really weird if they charged Bernie anything for the extra policing…
The Fairgrounds are located in Essex not Burlington.
“Sanders’ campaign is planning a rally next Tuesday, March 3, at the Champlain Valley Exposition in Essex Junction”, but what they won’t plan is a hard hitting interview with any of the Vermont press that Sanders has avoided like the plague. Sanders gets too angry to answer the hard questions honestly and when he is confronted with them, his arms start waving and he starts losing it.
Bernie is another old communist who is in for a rude awakening.
“At least Bernie pays his bills.”
It’s incredibly ironic that you would post that uninformed snark. Have you done any serious research on your hero? Actually, he doesn’t pay his bills. He didn’t pay his electric bills so the juice got turned off in his apartment and he used extension cords to steal electricity from his neighbors. This is widely reported and not disputed. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/…
A quote from a friend of Bernie’s in the 1970s: “The electricity was turned off a lot,” Barnett said. “I remember him running an extension cord down to the basement. He couldn’t pay his bills.”