SEIU 1199 All In for Regular Dems

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Liz Benjamin


The powerful health care workers union SEIU 1199 has “pretty much jumped in” to back all five IDC members as a reward for conference leader Jeff Klein’s agreement to abandon the GOP and cut a power-sharing deal with his fellow Democrats.

That’s according to 1199?s political director Kevin Finnegan, who said he and union President George Gresham will recommend that the IDC slate be formally endorsed by 1199?s council when it meets during the third week in July.

“Then we’ll be all in,” Finnegan said during a telephone interview last night. “I don’t know what that means at this point.”

“I don’t know if it’s in the form of an independent expenditure, or contributions to the DSCC or to some sort of coorindated campaign. That all needs to be worked out. That’s sort of the second-to-last step to this working out.”

http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/07/seiu-1199-all-in-for-regular-dems/

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