Democratic Primaries
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reporting that Culinary Union leader, Geo Kline, to comment on vicious attacks from Sanders supporters. Union leadership has received threatening calls, emails and threats to personal safety. Personal address shared.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
oldsoftie
(12,410 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Cha
(295,929 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
poli-junkie
(992 posts)this mishegas stew.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DarthDem
(5,253 posts)(Not Buttigieg, I was just trying to avoid profanity)
What is wrong with these people?? I don't even really dislike Sanders - even though I am very certain he can't win - but honestly, his supporters (to the extent they're not members of the GRU, as the "backers" in this story might well be) can be so loathsome.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)campaign that may not be Supporters but are instead disruptor's. Ran into this four years ago,my guess was,they were from the Stein Camp at the time. They all seemed to have changed their phone numbers or Party affiliation after the State Convention.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DarthDem
(5,253 posts)Love the changing numbers.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)only worse. These are Karl Rove and Lee Atwater type tactics. The head of a campaign needs to put his/her foot down, which is basically what you'd expect of a leader. Sanders rarely says a word, which is either lack of control or consent.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
DarthDem
(5,253 posts)I hadn't thought of that when I posted. He really should disavow this garbage.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)Sanders really is not the person I thought he was. I am seriously disappointed.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Nanjeanne
(4,878 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Union Business Agent or any Office holder to start out with. Once your Phone number becomes public,all hell breaks loose. There are some real whack jobs out there.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Link to tweet
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
I like the language they chose and endorsing both Amy and Joe.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Celerity
(42,667 posts)The Culinary Union is Nevadas union and largest immigrant organization with members who come from 178 countries and speak over 40 different languages. Our union is comprised of majority women, and we are proud to have changed the lives of over 800,000 hospitality workers in 85 years through rank-and-file organizing and mass actions.
Culinary Union members are empowered to engage in democracy whether at the bargaining table, while canvassing in neighborhoods, or on the streets in the desert heat we fight for workers across Nevada, union and non-union alike. We have welcomed Senator Bernie Sanders into our union for a town hall with Culinary Union members, and we hosted tours of the Culinary Health Center and the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas with Senator Sanders, to show what we have fought for and won.
Our union believes that everyone has the right to good healthcare and that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege. We have already enacted a vision for what working people need - and it exists now. Workers should have the right to choose to keep the healthcare Culinary Union members have built, sacrificed for, and went on strike for 6 years, 4 months, and 10 days to protect.
Its disappointing that Senator Sanders supporters have viciously attacked the Culinary Union and working families in Nevada simply because our union has provided facts on what certain healthcare proposals might do to take away the system of care we have built over 8 decades. We have always stood up for what we believe in and will continue to do so. The Culinary Union has faced some of the toughest companies who wanted to break our union, and even the President of the United States Donald Trump and won. Together, we will figure out the best way to fix healthcare in America, and the Culinary Union is committed to fighting until we win for everyone.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Link to tweet
Representatives of the powerful Culinary Workers Union, which represents 60,000 workers supporting Nevadas gaming and hospitality industries, said this week that supporters of the Vermont senator had viciously attacked its members after its leadership warned about the risk to their negotiated health plans under a Medicare for All system.
In an exclusive interview airing Sunday on NBCs Meet The Press, Biden said the Vermont senator may not be responsible for it, but he has some accountability.
You know me well enough to know if any of my supporters did that, Id disown them. Flat disown them, Biden said. The stuff that was said online. The way they threatened these two women who are leaders in that Culinary union. It is outrageous. Just just go online.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden