American Postal Workers Union Endorse Obama

[sabra]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/special_delivery_postal_worker.html#comments

No, the endorsement is not in the mail. The American Postal Workers Union announced its support for Barack Obama with an e-mail sent to reporters a few minutes ago.

The union, which claims to be the largest postal union in the world, said its executive board voted to endorse Obama today.

"We are most impressed by Sen. Obama's commitment to eradicating the undue influence of special interests in the political process, union president William Burrus said in a statement. "Our current political system does not allow for the voices of average citizens to be heard over the demands of lobbyists and big-money campaign contributors."

The union says it represents approximately 300,000 postal workers with clerical, maintenance and motor vehicle-related jobs.

[babylonsister]

1. Very nice-GOBAMA! nt

[flpoljunkie]

24. Indeed! Thank you, APWU!

[Scurrilous]

2. Great news!

K & R :thumbsup:

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Cool! K&R

:kick:

[0007]

4. Hooray hooray for a real hero!

[Forkboy]

5. Postal workers are dead to me.

[Cha]

9. All right smart guy..who's gonna

deliver your mail?:P

[Forkboy]

14. I don't care..it's all bills.

Screw it. :)

[Cha]

18. brawawa..

Now you can tell your creditors that the US Postal Workers endorsed Obamba and they're dead to you! Fini, Over.

[bagimin]

28. My union ,Letter carriers , (NALC) prematurely endorsed Hillary..

glad to see APWU support senator Obama.

[NOLALady]

36. Yay APWU!!!!!

Hubby and I are both retired members. I'm so proud.

[NOLALady]

35. So,

I see you're not looking forward to that big check the President will send you.

[Forkboy]

46. I'm one of the ones not getting it anyways.

x(

[ClayZ]

6. Yay! K and R

[newmajority]

7. Excellent news!

Thanks, postal workers!

[kid a]

8. k & r for the GREAT news

[Lucky 13]

10. Cha-ching

Yes another union endorsement for Obama.

[snooper2]

11. THE POSTAL DEPT. DOESN'T COUNT!

So, all you Hillary supports need to go in your front yard and rip that fucking mailbox and pole right out of the ground!

[Cha]

12. Good for our Postal Workers who

are obviously brilliant.

[Symarip]

13. Postal Workers have been dead to her for ages... (nt)

[PBS Poll-435]

15. More *crazy* gun-toting

Obama supporters. Fantastic. :freak:








*j/k* my grandfather was a postal carrier.

[TahitiNut]

16. Careful with that. I live in Royal Oak - the PO where "postal" made the big time.

I must say I've got EXCELLENT mail service here. I'm sure the wounds are still raw.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal#Royal_Oak.2C_Michigan_in_1991

[PBS Poll-435]

17. :-)

I was just kidding...

They do work really hard!

[NOLALady]

39. Hey.

They didn't include the 1980 incident in New Orleans.

http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/690/690.F2d.431.81-3662.html

That's the only link I can find. The date is wrong. It says Nov 24, 1980 but it was Nov 04, 1980.

I remember the day well. I saw that Raygun was about to win by a landslide and I went to bed heartsick.
The phone rang early Nov 5th with one of my best friends screaming if I'd read the paper. I said yes I knew that RR had one the election and how awful, yada yada. Well actually, she was referring to the NOLA Postal incident. We went to school with the victim and we also knew her attacker quite well.

It seemed to me that the 1980 incident kicked off the 80s wave of shootings.

[Hope And Change]

19. K&R!

:kick:

[Alter Ego]

20. "They then pulled out TEC-9s and proceeded to fire them indiscriminately into the air."

I kid, I kid.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

21. LOVe it ! k&R

[last_texas_dem]

22. Hey, that's my old union

I agree with their endorsement. :toast:

[Zachstar]

23. This is great news!! Thank you!!

The argument that Obama is not electable is just about gone now.

[sonias]

25. WooHoo

Yes we can - get the postal union endorsement!

:bounce:

Sonia

[Coexist]

26. happy kick!

[David Zephyr]

27. Working people know who is on their side.

:toast:

[izzybeans]

29. My mailwoman is dead to me.

:rofl:

Actually we had a nice chat about my Obama sign in my apt. window.

[jillan]

30. The NALC (Nat'l Assn of Letter Carriers) which is a much larger, influential Union

endorsed:



From their site:

For NALC, Hillary Clinton has been an
unwavering friend and ally.

http://www.nalc.org/news/precord/PresMesPDF/pres0408.pdf

[Divine Discontent]

44. that is true, however, we're talking breaking news, not 6 month old decisions

that were made very early on in the process with arm-twisting. William Young and his staff should have waited a few months longer like most unions typically do. I would think of the dozen or so unions that endorsed her in Ohio in '07, several if not most would not do it today. That's a nice pic of Hillary btw. I think she's been a little worn out lately, I can only imagine what this process does to a body, her and Obama have to be exhausted.

[jillan]

49. If you go to the NALC site, they are still praising Hillary, so I'm sure they have no regrets,

On edit -
Obama has been looking a little worn out as well.
He is starting to get deep wrinkles in his forehead. Just sayin'.

[Divine Discontent]

50. I agree, her and Obama have to be exhausted - not good for the GE with her staying in just to drop

out after PA when she either barely wins or barely loses to Barack, when weeks ago it was how much is she going to win by - 15 or 20 points, and therefore give her some push to make an excuse to stick around to the end.

[lonestarnot]

31. Wooodamnwhoo!

:bounce:

[atal]

32. Fantastic News

K & R

[berni_mccoy]

33. K&R!

[K Gardner]

34. Don't tell Elton ! K&R

[BlueJac]

37. Obama 2008

[liberaldem4ever]

38. Great news! K&R

[Guava Jelly]

40. Thats it!!! I am canceling my subscription to Mail!!!1111!!!

Fuck them!! :mad: Fuck rain sleet or snow!11!!! :silly:
The Mail is dead to me!!!

[parkeradison]

41. Regarding "Postal endorsement"

More bad news for the Clintons. Not a good day for Hillary. Don't you feel bad for her?

[Apollo11]

42. "Newman!"

I will be sticking to e-mail for the rest of this year ...

[BlueGirlRedState]

43. I started to send this to my dad

My dad is a retired Postal carrier, and unfortunately, a right-winger (although still a union man, go figure)! Then I noticed it was not the letter carriers' union. They endorsed Hillary.

Either way, I know my dad will be voting for McSame. Unfortunately, against his own best interests.

[Jamastiene]

45. Oh dear. We are IN FOR IT if he doesn't get the nomination now.

Sorry, couldn't resist the "go postal" connotations of that endorsement. It fits too well. :evilgrin:

[knixphan]

47. fired up!

[azmouse]

48. Good news.

[scheming daemons]

51. Hillfans are going to boycott receiving mail in protest....

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