Kamala Harris fires up labor leaders at California dinner.

Ian Sams @IanSams 1h1 hour ago
SF Chronicle: @KamalaHarris “received an ecstatic reception” at California labor dinner. SF Chronicle: @


Sen. Kamala Harris, presidential candidate, bids for union support in a speech to labor organizations in Sacramento. Carl Costas / Special to The Chronicle

SACRAMENTO — Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, rallied union leaders Monday night at a labor dinner honoring state legislators, where she received an ecstatic reception from what could be a crucial ally in her effort to win the largest presidential primary in the country.

“This is a moment that is requiring us to fight for the best of who we are. And who but labor knows how to fight?” Harris told the crowd in remarks that broadly echoed her standard stump speech.



Harris on Monday night rattled off a list of worker benefits that said would not have been possible without organized labor and warned of unnamed people trying to paint unions as “special-interest groups.”



“That’s a game they’re playing. And we’re going to have to fight against that,” she said. “We might need to do some educating ... to remind people unions built the middle class of this country.”

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Kamala Harris addresses labor leaders at the California Labor Federal and State Building and Construction Trades Council Legislative Conference Dinner, Monday, April 1, 2019, in Sacramento. Rich Pedroncelli AP




Kate Waters @K8_Waters
With @KamalaHarris and ⁦@CaliforniaLabor⁩ in Sacramento tonight and she’s right: it is great to be in a house of labor.




Vaughn Hillyard @VaughnHillyard
Kamala Harris to union crowd in Sacramento: “This is a moment that is requiring us to fight for the best of who we are. And who but labor knows how to fight, and fight effectively and fight in an organized way and fight on behalf of the people?”




Carla Marinucci @cmarinucci 11h11 hours ago
👉⁦@KamalaHarris⁩ warns Sacramento labor crowd about “forces trying to sow division and hate..we must not allow people to get away with selling that stuff..in their effort to divide us.”

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