2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie Sanders spurns meeting with HIV and AIDS advocates
HIV and AIDS advocates are voicing disappointment with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after they say he spurned a meeting with them last week.
The Democratic president candidate was scheduled to meet with more than a dozen activists from the Black AIDS Institute, the National Black Leadership, and Housing Works, among others to discuss his plan for ending the HIV and AIDS epidemic, but his campaign postponed the meeting, they said.
"Not until April 29, with only four days notice, did Sanders representatives set a 30-minute meeting to take place in Indianapolis on the morning of the May 3rd Indiana primary, the HIV advocates wrote Monday in a press release. "Attendees purchased expensive, last-minute airfares, only to be informed two days later...that the May 3 meeting was cancelled. Despite another promise to reschedule as soon as possible, thus far the Sanders campaign has not proposed a new date, time, or city."
The Sanders campaign responded to questions from The Hill by touting his Senate record of promoting LGBTQ rights and fighting against HIV and AIDS.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/279283-hiv-advocates-sanders-spurned-meeting
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Very sad for trying to make hay out of nothing. You are just grasping at straws to try and disparage Bernie and it's lame.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)I'm sure it will all be taken care of--free of charge--in his single payer healthcare plan. Right now he's busy leading a revolution, and once the revolution gets him elected he's going to march right over to Congress and demand that they pass that plan immediately. Then they'll do it, because, you know, the revolution happened and Bernie Sanders got elected. Then if they don't he'll call them big bad meanie heads, and they'll feel bad and then pass it. Or something.
Gothmog
(146,029 posts)AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)And you typed that with a straight face?