Wednesday Bus Schedule—First Stop—RNs from local hospitals ‘get on the bus’ for early voter action
Second Stop—On to pre-debate rally for Bernie Sanders

MIAMI – On the heals of a momentous win in Miciagan Tuesday night and with barely a week before Florida’s Democratic primary on March 15, registered nurse members of National Nurses United  (NNU), are intensifying their efforts in support of Senator Bernie Sanders campaign.

On Wednesday afternoon buses will bring nurse members of NNU from Florida Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale and Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah to an early voting site to cast their ballot for Sanders. They will then join other local supporters in a pre-debate rally for the Senator.

The nurses #BernieBus, has traveled up and down the sunshine state over the last week, facilitating conversations between nurses and voters in a wide array of locations and events from neighborhood canvasses and phone banks in Sarasota and Miami, farmers market in St. Petersburg, a Spring training camp, community college and a large medical center in Kissimmee, and several hospitals in the Fort Lauderdale

Wednesday Bus Schedule

First Stop
What: Nurses Early Voter Action
When: Wednesday, March 9, Afternoon
Where: JFK Library

Second Stop
What: Miami Pre-Debate Rally in Support of Bernie Sanders
When: Wednesday, Evening
Where: Miami Dade College-Kendall Campus

Nurses have been touring the country, and particularly swing states, since January in their #BernieBus, using it as a mobile voter education vehicle. To date they have traveled through Iowa, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Colorado, Michigan, Ohio Illinois, and Missouri.

“From Nevada to New Hampshire, from Colorado to South Carolina, nurses have talked to voters and been reminded of the huge gaps in access to health care and education, concerns about retirement security, the jobs lost due to unfair trade deals, widespread inequality, and the escalating climate crisis that continue to plague so many communities and families,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, Executive Director of NNU.

One of the top reasons nurses and healthcare workers support Bernie Sanders’ candidacy is his unequivocal demand to expand Medicare to provide healthcare to all residents as a basic human right, not a for-profit enterprise. Florida, with 948,000 uninsured adults, ranks among states with the country’s highest numbers of uninsured, despite passage of the Affordable Care Act. The state’s governor, former hospital corporate executive Rick Scott, has refused to implement the Medicaid expansion provisions of the of the Affordable Care Act.

National Nurses United, with over 185,000 members in all 50 states, is the largest organization of registered nurses in the U.S. and the first union to endorse Sanders, in August last year. Since then, NNU members have been organizing house parties, rallies and phone banks, and mobilizing door- to-door get-out-the-vote efforts in support of Sanders.