Union leadership has sold out it's members.

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MCALEVEY: I think it's close to an F, frankly. And let me just put in context an example of how Hillary dealt with the workers in the union in Nevada, and then I'm going to cut to sort of what her very long track record has been, starting with Arkansas and when she was the first lady of Arkansas, and then traveling all the way through secretary of state and candidate Clinton today, and I think I can do that really quickly. And there's a trend line which is all the way through, all the way through Hillary Clinton's many different public roles. She's frankly been closer to corporations than to workers.

And the experience I had with her firsthand, I just have one little anecdote from the moment she actually sat in front of the executive board of the union that I led in Nevada, which is mostly healthcare workers and government sector workers. You know, healthcare workers, nurses, et cetera. Very, very incredibly [gracious], important workers. And when Hillary came before our executive board, shortly after I introduced her--and this was, she was courting our executive board for an endorsement, a statewide unions endorsement. And she literally, her opening lines, I'll never forget them. They're seared in my brain. Her opening line to our executive board was as follows: “I don't need you, and I don't need to be here, but I'm here anyway.”

That was [inaud.] Hillary Clinton towards America's workers. I don't need you, I don't need to be here talking to you, but I'm here anyway. It was as if she was doing workers in the state a favor by having a conversation with them. Now, mind you, in 2008 she had Mark [pitt], who is a famous union buster, who was a key operative in her campaign. So we have a [inaud.] this very long track record of sort of who Hillary Clinton has been versus the method who Clinton is each time she runs for office.

The, the more important issue is this thing I'm raising, which is called the enthusiasm gap. What trade--there's two ways that trade unions historically contribute to presidential races and to all elections. One is they contribute money. But that money used to matter more than it does now, right, we've--once the, once the Supreme Court blew the lid on spending by corporations, the amount of actual money that the unions put in seems very, very small compared to what the Koch brothers and their ilk are putting in. So what the trade unions used to be able to guarantee was boots on the ground, right, enthusiastic trading members running and knocking on doors. And well, there's two challenges with that right now. The first is that there's many less workers in trade unions. And the second is that a lot of the rank and file actually support Bernie Sanders.

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