Vallejo

Vallejo is geographically close but economically far from more affluent San Francisco Bay Area cities to the south.  In 2008 the city of Vallejo filed for bankruptcy.  Yesterday, May 18, the Bernie Sanders campaign came to Vallejo.
The gathering was held in a huge grassy area alongside the water estuary.  The area was enclosed with security fencing so that audience members all had to pass through metal detectors. One and half hours before Sanders’ speech, the line to go through the security screening was half a mile long.  Yet spirits were high with a buzz in the air.