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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Fri Nov 27, 2015, 04:44 PM Nov 2015

Hillary Clinton Wins Union Endorsements, But Not Enthusiasm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - California nurse Katy Roemer remembers how at the height of the Ebola crisis last year, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders marched arm-in-arm with union workers as they fought for hazmat suits and other protections to treat patients with infectious diseases.

Roemer's gratitude is why she keeps a large stash of "Bernie" stickers and posters in her car and is urging people she knows to back his White House bid. She jokes that she will be telling friends and family members: "You're not coming to dinner if you didn’t vote."

If Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, Roemer said she would vote for her in the November 2016 general election but she will not volunteer for her campaign.

Roemer's comments crystallize a risk Clinton faces as she courts organized labor—a potential enthusiasm gap. Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, has racked up a string of formal endorsements, but many rank-and-file union members remain drawn to Sanders.

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Hillary Clinton Wins Union Endorsements, But Not Enthusiasm (Original Post) Purveyor Nov 2015 OP

My brother-in-law is an iron worker and he said the members of his union in NY were happy hrmjustin Nov 2015 #1

Welcome back! If the Thanksgiving gatherings I attended yesterday are any indication, people are Purveyor Nov 2015 #2

Thank you. In my family the main thing is defeat Trump. hrmjustin Nov 2015 #4

she wins when the hierarchy ignores its base? so what else is new! XD MisterP Nov 2015 #3

If nobody likes her then she will lose the nomination and everybody will be happy. DemocratSinceBirth Nov 2015 #5

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

1. My brother-in-law is an iron worker and he said the members of his union in NY were happy

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 04:46 PM

Nov 2015

with the endorsement.

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)

2. Welcome back! If the Thanksgiving gatherings I attended yesterday are any indication, people are

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 04:50 PM

Nov 2015

all over the place and very, very undecided.

The most prevalent feeling being, "it this the best this country can come up with?"

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. Thank you. In my family the main thing is defeat Trump.

Reply to Purveyor (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 04:52 PM

Nov 2015

He makes everyone including the Republicans in my family sick.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

3. she wins when the hierarchy ignores its base? so what else is new! XD

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Fri Nov 27, 2015, 04:50 PM

Nov 2015

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

5. If nobody likes her then she will lose the nomination and everybody will be happy.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Nov 27, 2015, 04:55 PM

Nov 2015

If nobody likes her then she will lose the nomination and everybody will be happy.

And in other breaking news if I walk the half mile south or so from my SFV apartment to the 101 and play in the traffic I will likely get run over.

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