Bernie Sanders will bring his campaign promoting climate change and free education to Tulsa on Wednesday, a city that was built on the state’s rich oil history but an industry that Sanders wants to eliminate. He will speak during an appearance in the state before the March 1 Super Tuesday elections.
He will host a 4 p.m. rally at the Cox Business Center.
His campaign says Sanders will speak at “A Future to Believe in Rally” and will discuss his plans for making public higher education tuition free and climate change. He will also discuss campaign platform issues such as big money in politics.
The event is free and open to the public. Admission will be on a first-come and first-served basis. Sanders, a Democrat from Vermont, is in his second term in the U.S. Senate after winning re-election in 2012 with 71 percent of the vote. He previously spent 16 years in the House of Representatives as the longest serving independent member of Congress in American history.
He sits on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and the Senate Budget committee. Sanders also is a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee chaired by Oklahoma U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe.
His Senate website said that as a member of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, “He has championed efforts to transform our energy system from fossil fuels to renewable power sources like solar and wind.”
When President Obama announced last month he had decided to stop new federal coal leases on public lands, Sen. Sanders supported the announcement.
“I applaud the president for taking bold action to slow the worst effects of climate change. We have a moral responsibility to leave our kids a planet that is both health and habitable. The best way we can do that is by keeping fossil fuels in the groud, which is why I co-sponsored legislation last year with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to stop all new fossil fuel leases on public lands.”
