U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will make an appearance on March 21 in Denver’s Civic Center Park, alongside liberal firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, for the latest stop on Sanders’ national “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.
The democratic socialist senator, who has been in Congress for nearly 35 years, announced his downtown Denver appearance on Instagram as one of a few planned “town meetings.” He said people in the country are “profoundly disgusted with what is going on here in Washington, D.C.”
Sanders, 83, targeted Elon Musk — the tech mogul who is working hand in hand with President Donald Trump to reduce the size of the federal government, to the alarm of many Democrats — as one of a number of billionaires now “running the government” under Trump and threatening to turn it into an oligarchy.
Sanders, who has run for president twice, has been attracting relatively large crowds on the tour, according to the Associated Press. Nine thousand people showed up for one of his stops in suburban Detroit earlier this month, while 4,000 came to see him in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The doors will open for the Civic Center Park event at 101 W. 14th Ave. at 4 p.m. Friday, and the speaking program will begin at 5 p.m. Those wishing to attend are asked to submit an online RSVP.
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