Brooklyn —
Like many millennials across the city, the volunteers who gathered in a McKibben Street loft on Sunday enjoyed brunch together, a potluck spread that included eggs, bacon and mimosas.
Unlike most brunches though, this was a prelude to a day of cold-calling voters in other states to plug Bernie Sanders before today’s Super Tuesday primary contests.
These were the Bushwick Berners, a grassroots group of Sanders’ supporters that has been holding phone banking events nearly every day for the past week, despite Sanders’ defeats in Nevada and South Carolina. While this was the first one that started with brunch, pizza and beer have also figured prominently as the fuel for their civic engagement.
