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Sanders Iowa Visits

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Through 3rd Quarter 2015

Iowa: 14 visits, 32 days
2015
>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on September 26-27, 2015.
On September 26 he spoke at the Latino Heritage Festival on the Walnut and Locust Streets bridges in downtown Des Moines; and held a town hall meeting in the Newton High School auditorium  in Newton.
On September 27 he met with Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines at Caspe Terrace in Waukee; spoke at an invite-only youth summit at Creative Visions in Des Moines; spoke at the Webster County Democratic Pork Chop Dinner at the Webster County Fairgrounds in Fort Dodge; and held a town meeting at North Iowa Area Community College auditorium in Mason City.

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on September 3-5, 2015
On September 3 he met with the Des Moines Register ed. board in Des Moines; held a town meeting at Grinnell Community Center's Voertman Theater in Grinnell; attended the opening of the campaign's Ottumwa headquarters at 105 N. Court St. in Ottumwa; and held a town meeting at the Livestock Arena at the Des Moines County Fairgrounds in West Burlington.
On September 4 he did an invite-only Latino roundtable at the Muscatine County Boxing Club in Muscatine; a Meskwaki Nation town meeting at the Meskwaki Tribal Center in Tama; marched in an informational picket and spoke, sponsored by Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union (Local 100G) and the Hawkeye Labor Council, Iowa Federation of Labor at Penford in Cedar Rapids; and held a town meeting in the Sinclair Auditorium at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.
On September 5 he participated in an AFSCME presidential townhall at the Meadows Events and Conference Center in Altoona; and at campaign headquarters in Des Moines spoke to volunteers getting ready to canvass.

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on August 14-16, 2015
On the evening of August 14 he spoke at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Historic Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake
On August 15 he held a town meeting in the Community Building at Boone County Fairgrounds in Boone; attended the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines including speaking at the Des Moines Register Soapbox; and spoke at the opening of his Iowa City field headquarters at 702 S. Gilbert St. (Kennedy Plaza) in Iowa City.
On August 16 he spoke at the opening of his Cedar Rapids field headquarters at 725 11th St. in Marion; spoke at the Scott County Democrats Picnic in the Park at the Scott County Park Whispering Pines Shelter in Long Grove just north of Eldridge; spoke at a labor meeting at IAFF Local 609 Union Hall in Clinton; and held a town meeting at Loras College in Dubuque

>Sen. Bernie Sanders spoke at the the Iowa Federation of Labor Presidential Forum in Altoona, Iowa on August 6, 2015.

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on July 24, 2015.  He participated in an Every Child Matters roundtable at Plumber and Pipefitters Local 33 in Des Moines; and held a town meeting at Valley School in West Des Moines.

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Cedar Rapids, Iowa on July 17, 2015.  He held a press conference on veterans' issues at the Veterans Memorial building; and spoke at the Iowa Democratic Party Hall of Fame dinner at the Convention Center.

>Sen Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on July 2-4, 2015.
On July 2 he held a town meeting at Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge; and a town meeting at Morningside College in Sioux City.
On July 3 he did a breakfast meet and greet with SOLO County Democrats at Sheldon Community Building in Sheldon; did a town meeting at Better Day Cafe in Storm Lake; marched in the Independence Day Parade in Denison; and did a town meeting at Mid-America Center in Council Bluffs.
On July 4 he did the Independence Day Parade in Creston; and the Independence Day Parade in Waukee.

>Former Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on June 12-14, 2015.  
On the evening of June 12 he held a town hall meeting at Drake University's Sheslow Auditorium in Des Moines
On June 13 he hosted an open house and hold a news conference at his new Iowa headquarters at 3839 Merle Hay Rd., Suite  259 in Des Moines; held a town hall meeting at UAW Local 893 in Marshalltown; and in the evening he spoke at the Hawkeye Labor Council AFL-CIO Steak Fry at IBEW Local 405 Hall in Cedar Rapids.
On June 14 he iheld a town hall meeting at Waterloo Center for the Arts' Hope Martin Theatre in Waterloo; held a Flag Day town hall meeting at Bill Riley Bandshell Estes Park in Iowa Falls; and spoke at the Warren County Democrats' 12th Annual Summer Picnic at Veterans Memorial Park in Indianola.

>After his campaign kickoff in Vermont on May 26 and stops in NH on May 27, Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on May 28-30, 2015
On the evening of May 28 he held a town meeting in Rogalski Center at St. Ambrose University in Davenport.
On the afternoon of May 29 he did a Muscatine County Democrats' town meeting at Muscatine Community College in Muscatine, and in the evening a house party at the home of David Johnson and Jennie Embree in West Branch
On May 30 he did a town meeting at the Robert A. Lee Community Recreation Center in Iowa City; spoke at an Ames Grassroots for Bernie Celebration at Torrent Brewing Company in Ames; and in the late afternoon did a Tri-County Democrats town meeting at Kensett Community Center in Kensett.

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on February 19-21, 2015
On February 19 in Iowa City he did a book reading from "The Speech" at Prairie Lights Bookstore; visited the 18th Annual Domestic Violence Intervention Project Souper Bowl at the Clarion Hotel and Highlander Convention Center; and spoke at a town meeting sponsored by the U.S. Student Association at the University of Iowa (+). 
On February 20 he did a town meeting sponsored by the U.S. Student Association at Drake University in Des Moines; and in the evening delivered the keynote address at the Iowa Citizen Action Network's 35th anniversary celebration at the Johnston Lion's Club in Johnston
On February 21 he spoke to the Hawkeye Labor Council AFL-CIO and Cedar Rapids Building Trades AFL-CIO at RDSU-UFCW Local 110 in Cedar Rapids; met with the Linn Phoenix Club at the African American Museum of Iowa in Cedar Rapids; met with community members organized by the Cedar County Democratic Party at the Cedar County Court House in Tipton; and delivered the keynote address at the Story County Democrats' 2015 Soup Supper at Collegiate United Methodist Church in Ames.

2014: 4 visits, 9 days
>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on December 16-17, 2014.  On December 16 he started in Des Moines with a breakfast meeting with local residents at Drake Diner; held a town hall meeting hosted by the United States Student Association and Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund at Collegiate United Methodist Church in Ames; and was the keynote speaker at Progress Iowa's 2014 Holiday Party at the Meadows Events and Conference Center in Altoona.  Also on Tuesday he met "with groups of Iowans including labor unions, environmentalists, women’s rights groups, immigration reform activists, grassroots progressive groups and other organizations."  On December 17 he taped "Iowa Press" at Iowa Public Television in Johnston. 

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on October 4-5, 2014 On the evening of October 4 he was the keynote speaker at a town meeting on the economy sponsored by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund at the Adler Health Education Center in Davenport.  On October 5 he along with Sen. Debbie Stabenow spoke at the Johnson County Democrats' Annual Fall BBQ at the Johnson County Fairgrounds in Iowa City; and he spoke at a Popcorn and Politics meeting of the Iowa Citizen Action Network at the North Ridge Pavilion in Coralville.

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on September 13-14, 2014 for three town hall meetings sponsored by Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund.  On the evening of September 13 he held a town hall at Clarke University in Dubuque.  On September 14 after a morning appearance on NBC News' "Meet the Press," he held a town hall at the Center for the Arts in Waterloo; and a town hall at Grace United Methodist Church in Des Moines.

>Sen. Bernie Sanders visited Iowa on May 17-19, 2014.  The publicized event was the keynote address to Clinton County Democrats at their Hall of Fame Dinner at the Millenium Ballroom in Goose Lake on the evening of May 17.  As reported by DMR's Jason Noble via Sen. Sanders' office on May 18 he met with activists at a private home in Iowa City in an event sponsored by the Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement Action Fund.  On May 19 in Des Moines he met with AFL-CIO labor leaders; talked with students at Hoover High School; and toured a Primary Health Care Inc. clinic.



 
   



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