Posted on 02/05/2014 9:10:33 AM PST by lowbridge
The chief of the national hotel workers union is “bitterly disappointed” with the Affordable Care Act — and he decided this week to meet with Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), a longtime opponent of the bill.
Donald “D” Taylor, the general president of the Las Vegas-based UNITE HERE, met with the Senate Minority leader for a private meeting Tuesday that reportedly touched on the union’s grievances with President Obama’s signature health care law, according to the Las Vegas Review Journal.
McConnell confirmed that the two met in the nation’s capital, adding that it was Taylor who requested the get-together.
“It was a fairly brief meeting but it’s safe to say this is a good example of some of the president’s union constituents who were very enthusiastically for him who think Obamacare has been a disaster for them,” McConnell said after the meeting.
The Kentucky Republican added that Taylor did not get into the specifics of his complaints against the Affordable Care Act, but he said the meeting was an “exchange of pleasantries.”
A spokeswoman for the union leader told the Review Journal Tuesday that Taylor had indeed travelled to the nation’s capital, but she would not confirm if he had additional meetings in Washington.
Taylor did not meet with Senate Majority Leader and Obamacare supporter Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), a spokesperson with the senator’s office confirmed.
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Dem voters will pull the lever for McConnell to defeat Bevins, who polls better against their Dem candidate than McConnell.
Once Bevins is defeated as the (R) candidate, they will encourage him to run independent to split the (R) vote in the general election. Of course the unions will trash McConnell and support their REAL candidate, a (D).
Whoever wins, the Dems have their bitch in the Senate.
For what it’s worth from my notes:
October 10, 2013: Mitch McConnell (R. KY) . Mitch McConnell worked with Harry Reid (D. NV) and Obama to raise the debt limit, increase taxes, and FUND OBAMACARE. He betrayed the voters in his own party and abandoned our nation’s founding principles.
Kentucky is not an open primary state. To vote for a democrat republican candidate in the following primary one had to change party registration before Dec 31. I doubt many, if any democrats changed registration to republican.
should read vote for democrat OR republican candidate.
Agree and the rules wouldn’t change every day.
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