AP: With Edwards out, Calif. healthcare workers union backs Obama

[MadBadger]

The head of the United Healthcare Workers is urging the union's umbrella group, the SEIU state council, to support Barack Obama now that John Edwards has dropped out of the presidential race.

"We feel Obama is the best candidate for working families, and we will urge the Service Employees International Union's state council to officially endorse him at their meeting on Friday," United Healthcare Workers President Sal Rosselli said Thursday in a statement.

He said his union, which has 150,000 members in Southern and Northern California, "has a huge capacity to make a real difference in the California primary, given our extensive and experienced field operation, ability to phone bank, precinct walk and reach union members throughout the state."

SEIU has about 650,000 members in California. Many are city, county and state workers. Others are in-home support and health care workers.

Although the election is just days away, SEIU's backing could help Obama cut into Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead among Democratic base voters, many of whom are union members.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/01/31/politics/p154105S22.DTL&type=health

[Flabbergasted]

1. Good.

[Adelante]

2. Doesn't sound like it's done yet nt

[MadBadger]

3. No it doesnt, but that was the AP headline.

[Barack_America]

4. Apparently the official vote is tomorrow morning.

But it certainly sounds as if they will go Obama.

Not a surprise, I guess.

[glowing]

5. Just wondering why they think that Obama's healthcare plan is better

than Clinton's? I don't think Obama's goes far enough...

The number 1 reason I support Universal Healthcare is because it is the only way Small Business can take an edge over huge corporations... Its the only way they can even the playing field and be successful.. Its the only way to break up the Corporate hold they have over our country.

[NightWatcher]

6. yay, it appears to be the natural progression of things. I hope the other edward's support follows