{"id":2455142,"date":"2020-02-27T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/danny-davis-stumps-for-bernie-sanders-at-the-burton-us-open\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:35:00","slug":"snowboarder-danny-davis-stumps-for-bernie-sanders-at-the-burton-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/snowboarder-danny-davis-stumps-for-bernie-sanders-at-the-burton-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowboarder Danny Davis stumps for Bernie Sanders at the Burton US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.7796610169492\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-321735-759\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-768x1024.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Special to the Daily | Danny Davis rocks a Bernie Sanders patch Wednesday at the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships in Vail.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>Danny Davis rocks a Bernie Sanders patch Wednesday at the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships in Vail.<\/strong><br \/>Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-768x1024.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Danny Davis rocks a Bernie Sanders patch Wednesday at the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships in Vail.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Barry Eckhaus | Special to the Daily | Jake Pates, of Eagle qualified for Saturday's Burton US Open halfpipe finals in fourth position on Thursday. Pates, 21, said he enjoyed the modified halfpipe format, which included both a 22-foot halfpipe and a 13-foot halfpipe.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"13\">\n<p><strong>Jake Pates, of Eagle qualified for Saturday&#8217;s Burton US Open halfpipe finals in fourth position on Thursday. Pates, 21, said he enjoyed the modified halfpipe format, which included both a 22-foot halfpipe and a 13-foot halfpipe.<\/strong><br \/>Barry Eckhaus | Special to the Daily<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Jake Pates, of Eagle qualified for Saturday's Burton US Open halfpipe finals in fourth position on Thursday. Pates, 21, said he enjoyed the modified halfpipe format, which included both a 22-foot halfpipe and a 13-foot halfpipe.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-2-1024x720.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com | Maddie Mastro performs a grab after tapping the tombstone feature on the modified halfpipe for the Burton US Open Thursday in Vail. Mastro qualified in second position.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>Maddie Mastro performs a grab after tapping the tombstone feature on the modified halfpipe for the Burton US Open Thursday in Vail. Mastro qualified in second position.<\/strong><br \/>Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-2-1024x720.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Maddie Mastro performs a grab after tapping the tombstone feature on the modified halfpipe for the Burton US Open Thursday in Vail. Mastro qualified in second position.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com | Ruki Tomita, of Japan, competes in the halfpipe semifinals at the Burton US Open Thursday in Vail. Tomita qualified for Saturday's finals in first position.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Ruki Tomita, of Japan, competes in the halfpipe semifinals at the Burton US Open Thursday in Vail. Tomita qualified for Saturday&#8217;s finals in first position.<\/strong><br \/>Chris Dillmann | cdillmann@vaildaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/02\/BernieBroDannyDavis-VDN-022820-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" alt=\"Ruki Tomita, of Japan, competes in the halfpipe semifinals at the Burton US Open Thursday in Vail. Tomita qualified for Saturday's finals in first position.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/danny-davis-stumps-for-bernie-sanders-at-the-burton-us-open\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/danny-davis-stumps-for-bernie-sanders-at-the-burton-us-open\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It\u2019s true: The \u201cBernie Bro\u201d slur ignores the many female and minority supporters who have helped Sen. Bernie Sanders\u2019 campaign earn 5 million individual donations, the most of any presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But when you see professional snowboarder Danny Davis wearing a hoodie with a large Bernie Sanders patch on the back, few other terms come to mind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Davis is supporting Sanders with pride at the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships this week, drawing a connection between Vermont and Vail that began when Burton moved the longest-running competition in snowboarding from Stratton Mountain to Golden Peak in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In an interview with the Vail Daily on Wednesday, Davis said he wishes more snowboarders would use their platforms to voice their opinions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt actually bums me out how uninvolved I feel that our culture is,\u201d Davis said of snowboarding. \u201cThe climate plays so hard into our world, our profession.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Davis, however, says his support of Sanders doesn\u2019t derive purely from the candidate\u2019s attractive policy positions. There\u2019s a personal connection, as Sanders\u2019 stepson, Dave Driscoll, was Davis\u2019 team manager at Burton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI met Bernie forever ago, and I\u2019ve just always supported him,\u201d Davis said. \u201cIt\u2019d be like if your friend was on the Kansas City Chiefs, but you\u2019re a Niners fan, and you\u2019re like, \u2018Well I\u2019m kind of pulling for the Chiefs because my buddy\u2019s on them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Denali tears<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Davis says he does support most of Sanders\u2019 policy positions, as well, especially when it comes to climate change, where Sanders scores highest among environmental and political groups including Greenpeace and the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While visiting Denali National Park over the summer, Davis found new motivation to speak out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThat glacier is really receding,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the main things I think we need to be worried about with our community of action sports, and how much time we spend outside, and the places we go. \u2026 It\u2019s a real thing, the future of the planet, the goal of humanity, being able to survive on Earth in a few hundred years, that\u2019s the thing we\u2019re battling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Davis said that while he understands that most of his followers are interested in seeing him snowboard rather than speak about climate policy, he has moments where he really doesn\u2019t care. He said Jeremy Jones, his neighbor in Tahoe, helps him remember that something as simple as reminding people to register to vote can make a difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cI think there are times when we are helpful,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Subhead\">Protect Our Winters<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Davis is active in the non-profit organization Jones founded in an effort to spur legislation on climate change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The group, known as Protect Our Winters or POW, has been a part of the Burton US Open every year that it has been in Vail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Protect Our Winters currently has a campaign underway to support the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act, which would expand wilderness areas near Vail and protect 28,728 acres surrounding Camp Hale as the first-ever National Historic Landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">While Protect Our Winters has not endorsed a candidate for president, the group\u2019s 2020 Strategic Plan calls for a similar action proposed in Sanders\u2019 campaign strategy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201c2020 is our time to educate and engage the outdoor sports community and register new voters and get them to the polls,\u201d according to the strategic plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sanders has said repeatedly that any Democrat hoping to beat Trump will need to attract a record number of new voters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIf we can bring young people into the political process in the numbers that I think we can, it will be extraordinary, we will defeat Trump big time,\u201d Sanders said Monday at a CNN Town Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Davis said his main goal in his own activism is also to increase voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cTo me, what it seems like is going on right now, is people don\u2019t like anybody to vote for,\u201d Davis said. \u201cSo they\u2019re like \u2018I\u2019m just not going to vote.\u2019 But my message is always we\u2019ve got to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:jlaconte@vaildaily.com\">jlaconte@vaildaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/sports\/danny-davis-stumps-for-bernie-sanders-at-the-burton-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Davis rocks a Bernie Sanders patch Wednesday at the Burton US Open Snowboarding Championships in Vail.Special to the Daily Jake Pates, of Eagle qualified for Saturday&#8217;s Burton US Open halfpipe finals in fourth position on Thursday. Pates, 21, said he enjoyed the modified halfpipe format, which included both a 22-foot halfpipe and a 13-foot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 13:08:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}