ABC News: Dean to get major Union endorsement

[CMT]

ABC News: The NOTE reports that the 140,000 member International Union of Painting and Allied Trades (UPAT) is planning on endorsing Gov. Howard Dean next week in Iowa. It is a unanimous decision. The union represents painters, dry-wallers, glass workers, and wall-paper hangers.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html
report is under title: House of Labor.

This is Dean's first major Union endorsement, but there is a good chance he will get an even bigger one next month when Service employees (SEIU) make their endorsement.

[Vikingking66]

1. yay!

Go Dean, Go Dean, it's your birthday, it's your birthday....

Seriously, a unanimous endorsement? Wow.
If Dean can pick up the SEIU and maybe the UAW,
that's a nice wedge v. Gephardt.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

2. Yahoo!

Good for Dean! It's a dogfight with Gep in Iowa, this will help.

Iowa DUers, time to get some new wallpaper!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. It's a good choice for this particular union

given the hazards of their work, a doctor is a good man to represent them.

[polpilot]

14. Welcome aboard NY Mass!!

Dean '04...

[wryter2000]

4. Dean's October surprise?

Hey, newsguy!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Still wondering about that one....

He said it was generally good for all Dems so this probably isn't it. But that begs the question: What the hell is it?

[RevolutionStartsNow]

6. Darn that newsguy!

:)

Dean is getting plenty of good news in October, though...Not complaining.

[Upfront]

16. AFL&CIO

How about the AFL&CIO backing Dean for an Oct. suprise.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. I thought Dean hated working people.

Maybe I'm listening to the wrong people? :shrug:

[pruner]

18. Dean has no tolerance for those not born rich

working people and their dirty fingernails disgust him.

<sarcasm off>

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

22. Lol. I better get cracking then.

[Vikingking66]

21. lovely idea, but can't happen

Gephardt's got enough unions to block anyone else,
but not enough to win it.

If Dean picks up the SEIU, then Gep's really sunk.

[UnapologeticLiberal]

7. Alright!

I think this is his first union endorsement...this is great news! :bounce:

[pruner]

8. it's not his first, but it will be his biggest (thus far)

a couple of weeks ago he got the endoresement of another union. I don't have a link handy and can't rermember which one it is, but I know it's smaller than this one.

[kwolf68]

9. Awesome

A positive post about Dean and NO ONE from a rival camp has come in here to piss on the parade. It's nothing like the pro-Kerry threads.

[pruner]

10. this sounds like a good reason to me

The union's leadership likes Dean because his campaign has been able to galvanize disenfranchised Democrats and use the Internet to reach new voters.

"Our endorsement is largely in recognition that Governor Dean has done what we've all asked Democratic candidates to do, and that is to find the base of the party and mobilize it -- and don't rely on labor to be the sole ground troops."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/10/22/national1841EDT0774.DTL

[Rowdyboy]

11. Could I be the first non-Dean supporter

to offer congratulations. This really is big, primarily because it challenges the notion that Gephart has 100% of the union vote sewn up and also because it continues to help define and narrow the Democratic race. You guys have a quality candidate, and if my first choice doesn't win, I hope yours does.

Congrats :toast:

[pruner]

12. that's very gracious of you Rowdyboy

:)

but to correct you, Kerry has gotten some union endorsements as well. the only one I know of off the top of my head is the IAFF (International Association of Fire Fighters).

http://www.iaff.org/

[Rowdyboy]

13. I like pretty much all our guys...

Of course I have problems with Lieberman, and I dislike Sharpton, but I can pretty much get on board with any of them and would happily support the main 4 or 5 candidates. Clark and Dean are just my favorites because they're both liberals and both outsiders and I think, as such, they have a greater appeal for independents.

[pruner]

15. me too

I also have problems with Lieberman and Sharpton.

somewhat coincidentally, I'm a Jew from NYC.

[Rowdyboy]

19. If a Democratic New York Jew and

a Democratic Mississippi Episcopalian

agree that Sharpton and Lieberman should not represent our party, we're approaching consensus.

[pruner]

20. I suppose you could say that…

Lieberman & Sharpton are helping to bridge the religous & geographical divides.