On the Road: Georgia on My Mind

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More than 1,220 Bernie Sanders supporters crowded into an Atlanta hotel meeting space on Friday night for a low-dollar, high-decibel fundraiser and rally for the Democratic Party presidential candidate.

"This campaign is sending a message to the billionaire class that you can't have it all," Sanders said as the crowd roared. "You cannot continue to get tax breaks when people are going hungry. You are not going to continue to send jobs overseas when millions of Americans need jobs," Sanders said. "The greed of the billionaire class is destroying this country and whether they like it or not we are going to stop that greed."

He detailed proposals for a massive federal jobs program to create millions of jobs rebuilding our crumbling roads and bridges. He talked about his legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour because millions of people making the $7.25 hourly minimum today are "working for wages that are too damn low." He said we must end corporate-backed, job-killing trade deals that have shipped American jobs abroad. Congress must stop the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, he insisted. He urged men in the room to stand with women and demand pay equity so men and women doing the same work get the same salaries. And one of the biggest applause lines was his proposal to reduce oppressive student debt loads by lowering interest rates on student loans and making public college and universities tuition-free.

Georgia is one of the states set to hold primary elections on Super Tuesday next March 1. Sanders on Saturday heads to next-door South Carolina. The Palmetto State holds its Democratic Party primary on Feb. 27. This weekend's stops include visits to Benedict College in Columbia, Francis Marion University in Florence and Winthrop University in Rock Hill. The Sanders campaign caravan (well, it's really just one car) then heads to North Carolina on Sunday for a rally in Greensboro.

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