Before Jackie Sheeler leaves her Harlem apartment, she makes sure to put on her Bernie T-shirt and stuff the Bernie pamphlets that she made herself into her bag. She’s still waiting for her Bernie stickers to arrive in the mail (they’re on backorder), but she’s hoping they’ll come by the time she plans to set up a table near her neighborhood subway stop to flyer for Bernie this week.
“Too many people in New York don’t know who the hell he is — we need boots on the ground, flyers into people’s hands,” said Sheeler, who’s recruiting fellow Bernie Sanders supporters in New York City. She’s proud that her local dry-cleaner now has a stack of her pamphlets at the counter. But she acknowledges that the early organizing efforts behind Sanders are still scattershot. “It’s especially fragmented in New York — their limited resources must be focused on early primary states,” she said. “The organizers are trying to get organized.”
