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Video: NJ Working Families executive director to join Bernie Sanders campaign
BY Brenda Flanagan, Senior Correspondent | February 20, 2019, 5PM EST
Excerpt:
A major new assignment for New Jersey Working Family’s Executive Director Analilia Mejia. She’s to become political director for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. She joins Senior Correspondent Brenda Flanagan to speak about her new role.
Flanagan: You were a Bernie delegate back in 2016. Is this your dream gig?
Mejia: I am very excited. This is most certainly a dream gig. The ability to push an agenda that we’ve succeeded in promoting in New Jersey at the national level is just incredible.
Flanagan: What’s this is mean for you?
Mejia: I think that for myself, for working families, for activists across the state and in the nation, it’s validation that activism and getting engaged at the grassroots level is as powerful and impactful.
Flanagan: Well you’re a big grassroots person. I mean you’ve been with New Jersey Working Families Alliance, you’re a force of nature. I’ve seen you out there in the State House and you’ve worked for earned sick days, the fight for 15, you got one of the pens when Gov. Murphy signed the bill into law. What’s this going to mean, losing you out there in Jersey, what’s this mean now for the progressive agenda? You’re not going to be there.
https://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/nj-working-families-executive-director-to-join-bernie-sanders-campaign/
Excerpt:
A major new assignment for New Jersey Working Family’s Executive Director Analilia Mejia. She’s to become political director for the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign. She joins Senior Correspondent Brenda Flanagan to speak about her new role.
Flanagan: You were a Bernie delegate back in 2016. Is this your dream gig?
Mejia: I am very excited. This is most certainly a dream gig. The ability to push an agenda that we’ve succeeded in promoting in New Jersey at the national level is just incredible.
Flanagan: What’s this is mean for you?
Mejia: I think that for myself, for working families, for activists across the state and in the nation, it’s validation that activism and getting engaged at the grassroots level is as powerful and impactful.
Flanagan: Well you’re a big grassroots person. I mean you’ve been with New Jersey Working Families Alliance, you’re a force of nature. I’ve seen you out there in the State House and you’ve worked for earned sick days, the fight for 15, you got one of the pens when Gov. Murphy signed the bill into law. What’s this going to mean, losing you out there in Jersey, what’s this mean now for the progressive agenda? You’re not going to be there.
https://www.njtvonline.org/news/video/nj-working-families-executive-director-to-join-bernie-sanders-campaign/