Statement by Senator Bernie Sanders on Grassroots Backing by Teachers, Trade Unionists
October 03, 2015
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday issued the following statement on the support he has received from rank-and-file members of the National Education Association:
"I am proud to have the support of many hundreds of thousands of members of the National Education Association and trade unionists all across America. We are going to win this nomination and the general election because of support from grassroots Americans. We are on track to do just that."
Bernie Sanders, Statement by Senator Bernie Sanders on Grassroots Backing by Teachers, Trade Unionists Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/315151