By MaryAlice Parks
In a crowd of 7,500 people in Maine, (click here) Shannon McCartney stood out. With her Bernie for President tee-shirt and stickers plastered all over her leggings, McCartney ran up and down the line of people waiting outside handing out signs and getting people excited.
Bubbly, loud and energetic, McCartney, 25, likes to say that Sanders is
“our last hope for democracy.” She works for an advocacy organization to
legalize marijuana and now also volunteers indirectly for Sanders’s
campaign. She helped set-up a local grassroots group called “Portland
for Bernie” that worked alongside the official campaign to spread the
word about the event and sign up new volunteers.
“I am so excited about his message that I want everyone to know about
him. Everybody,” she said. “He is for ‘The 99 Percent.’ He is for the
little people. He is not a corporation. He is not a billionaire. He for
representing the people who work for America,” she continued....
