Campaign Literature—Bernie 2020


                         Bernie 2020

Mini-Brochure, 3.5" x 2.2" (opens to 3.5" x 11"), Nov. 2019.
   
What would it be like if our country was run for the benefit of regular everyday people?

Economic Justice
*  Medicare for All-- Healthcare is a human right
*  $15 minimum wage
*  Expand Social Security
*  College for All
*  Cancel all student debt
*  Break up big banks,
*  Make Wall St and corps pay their fair share
*  Universal childcare
*  Revitalize Rural America

Racial Justice
*  Voting rights for ALL Americans
*  Criminal Justice Reform and Community Investment
*  End racial wealth gap
*  Eliminate health disparities
*  Create a humane immigration system and reverse Trump's racist policies
*  Empower Tribal Nations

Environmental Justice
*  Pass a Green New Deal
*  Transform our energy system to renewables
*  Create millions of jobs
*  Ban fracking and new fossil fuel infrastructure
*  Stop polluting low income and minority neighborhoods
*  End exports of fossil fuels
*  Invest in infrastructure to protect communities impacted by climate change

Social Justice
*  Equal pay for equal work
*  Fight for Women's Rights
*  Get big money out of politics
*  Fight for LGBTQ+ equality
*  Address the gun crisis and White Nationalism
*  Fight for Disability Rights
*  Meet Our Commitment to Veterans


You Can Count On Bernie
40 Years of Fighting for Justice

1963 - Arrested protesting racial discrimination in housing

1981 - Elected Mayor of Burlington, VT

1983 - Creates Burlington Land Trust-- now the largest affordable housing land trust in the country

1986 - Signs proclamation creating Gay and Lesbian Pride Day in Burlington

1990 - Elected to US House of Representatives

1991- Votes against 1st Iraq War

1992 - Bernie's bill creating the National Program of Cancer Registries becomes law, praised as "the cancer weapon America needs most."

1994 - Votes against NAFTA

1998 - Successfully champions bipartisan group requiring the VA to treat Veterans for Gulf War Illness.

1999 - Takes women with breast cancer to Canada to buy prescription drugs at 1/10th price

2001- Passes legislation requiring medicines developed at taxpayer expense to be offered at fair and reasonable price

2002 - Votes against 2nd Iraq War

2004 - Passed legislation that prevented IBM from taking away workers' pensions

2006 - Voted against constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman

2007 - Established Energy Efficiency and Conservation Grant program

2008 - Passed provision to double funding for Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program

2009 - Passes legislation providing $350 Million to help family farmers

2014 - Passes bipartisan bill to expand VA hospitals and clinics

2016 - First major presidential campaign funded by small donors

2017 -Introduces Medicare for All Bill

2018 - Forces Amazon and Disney to raise their starting wage to $15 an hour

2019 - Passes War Powers Resolution in House and Senate to end war in Yemen

In poll, after poll, after poll
Bernie BEATS Trump
 
*RCP Average: Bernie 49.6% - Trump 43.6% ...   * FOX News: Bernie 48% - Trump 39% ...
*NBC/WSJ: Bernie 50% - Trump 43% ...   *Survery USA: Bernie 50% - Trump 42% ...
*IBD/TIPP: Bernie 49% - Trump 45% ...    *Emerson: Bernie 52% - Trump 48% ...
 
*as of 10/2019

[union bug]  Paid for by Bernie 2020  (not the billionaires)