Nurses aboard National Nurses United’s #BernieBus will be canvassing Madison-area neighborhoods on Tuesday, in a final get out the vote push for Bernie Sanders, as well as giving residents rides to the polls in the #BernieBus.

“We’ve talked to so many voters in the past week. We were at University of Wisconsin and Carthage College, and the students there were very pro-Bernie,” said Begsa Calvache, RN, of Chicago, who along with her sister Myriam Calvache, RN, has been riding the #BernieBus for through several states. The Calvache sisters say they have been inspired to hear so many young Wisconsin voters find hope for the future in Bernie’s campaign.

“I was raised a conservative republican, but the more I learn, the more I feel the Bern,” Samantha Haltom, a Carthage College student, told the #BernieBus nurses. “I’m voting for Bernie!”

“We have an 18-year-old niece in Brookfield, and she—like many young people—is so passionate about Bernie Sanders,” said Calvache. “She likes him because he is for the people, not corporations, and she is so proud that my sister Myriam and I, her aunts, are nurses on the #BernieBus.”

#BernieBus nurses will be canvassing throughout Madison on Tuesday, April 5.

Please contact Elise Nabors for specific times, places to connect with the canvass: 510-219-6252

Nurses “Feel the Bern” with Wisconsin college students

National Nurses United, with over 185,000 members from 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 efforts in support of Sanders.

“From Nevada to New Hampshire, from Colorado to South Carolina, RNs have talked to voters and been reminded of the huge gaps in access to healthcare and education, concerns about retirement security, the jobs lost due to unfair trade deals, widespread inequality, and the escalating climate crisis,” said RoseAnn DeMoro, NNU Executive Director. “Bernie Sanders and the legions of grassroots activists around the U.S. who have joined him will not stop. The political revolution is just beginning.”