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International Association of Firefighters endorses Biden
NBC News ^ | 4/29.2019 | Mike Memoli

Posted on 04/29/2019 3:54:42 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse

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To: LeoWindhorse

I’m in a union. And I don’t think I have ever voted for the candidate they endorse. Or even that party. No doubt some of my dues have gone to them but I get them back in the voting booth.


41 posted on 04/29/2019 5:22:59 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: caver

More like horny gropers that endorse the feelie one.

Grope the Vote with Joe!

It’s the only time Joe’s NOT so slow.

The only thing fast about Joe IS his hands.


42 posted on 04/29/2019 5:24:47 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Tennessee Conservative
"Just because the union supports Biden doesn’t mean the firefighters do.."

Right you are... What unions support is "Corruption." The more corrupt the candidate, the better... It's always been that way, just ask Jimmy Hoffa... :)

43 posted on 04/29/2019 5:25:10 AM PDT by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: Bonemaker

man Bonemaker,
What are you one of maybe three in Illinois that are not crazy lib?


44 posted on 04/29/2019 5:26:11 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ( Molon Labe' baby, Molon Labe)
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To: LeoWindhorse

This is a classic Union Leadership vs Rank and File disconnect. Go to the parking lot behind any full-time fire station. You will find bumper stickers for IAFF, National Rifle Association, Trump 2016, and Pro-Life causes.


45 posted on 04/29/2019 5:29:19 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Right on cue ...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/22/joe-biden-2020-entrance-plan-1287101

As Biden seeks on-the-ground labor support in early primary and caucus states, he has all but locked in the endorsement of the International Association of Firefighters, the union that helped boost John Kerry to the Democratic nomination in 2004. This year, IAFF President Harold Schaitberger said, the 315,000-member union plans to quickly deploy an organized effort to boost Biden in the early-voting states.

“I have been in touch on a consistent basis with the campaign and the vice president,” Schaitberger told POLITICO on Monday. Once Biden’s announcement goes live, Schaitberger continued, “our executive board will be prepared to immediately meet and formally take a position on the primary and we’ll likely be prepared to make that announcement on the 29th.”


46 posted on 04/29/2019 5:34:25 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Joe Boucher

Seems that way doesn’t it? However, strip away the metro Chicago counties and the other 90-95% of the state votes like Wyoming.


47 posted on 04/29/2019 5:45:15 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: grayboots

Public unions are ALL going to endorse a Democrat.

He could conduct orgies on the field at the Rose Bowl with goats, pigs and the underaged. To union types it’s all about the money.


48 posted on 04/29/2019 5:46:15 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HighSierra5

“Government employee unions should be abolished. The biggest conflict of interest in history.”

Even FDR didn’t want them.


49 posted on 04/29/2019 5:48:35 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: LeoWindhorse

If the leadership supports Biden you know they are crooks and scam artists.

Sociopaths rise to the top of all large organizations.


50 posted on 04/29/2019 5:52:16 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: caver
"I never realized that firefighters were a bunch of union thugs."

The ones I have met and consider friends no, they would fit in well here on FR. Now their leaders? I wouldn't use the same term, but in the pocket of the DNC and willing to play games for their own benefit ( Not the rank and file ) oh yea, I could see that.....

51 posted on 04/29/2019 5:53:04 AM PDT by taildragger ("Do you hear the people Singing? Singing the Songs of Angry Men!")
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To: LeoWindhorse

I thought firefighters were smarter than this?


52 posted on 04/29/2019 6:07:00 AM PDT by ohioman
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To: windsorknot

Not to mention a certifiable idiot; something he apparently has in common with Shitburger and the leadership of the IAFF.


53 posted on 04/29/2019 6:07:52 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: LeoWindhorse

BTW, Any NYPD officers hanging around here on FR? Might you want to share any stories about the behavior of the NYFD during the cleanup in the aftermath of 9/11? If you’re here, you know exactly what I’m referring to...


54 posted on 04/29/2019 6:10:12 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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To: ohioman
I thought firefighters were smarter than this?

I have a family member who is likewise a very smart guy, with very conservative values. He was, however, a public school teacher. As such he religiously voted Democrat for decades, for the simple reason that doing so preserved his regular pay increases, Cadillac benefits package, insane level of job security and unreal pension. Drove us all nuts.


55 posted on 04/29/2019 6:11:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: LeoWindhorse

Most real firefighters are smarter than that - unions screw up everything they insinuate themselves into...


56 posted on 04/29/2019 6:19:51 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: LeoWindhorse

Big City unions. The volunteers who are spread all over the country will disagree.


57 posted on 04/29/2019 6:20:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: taildragger

As another Freeper pointed out, this is an “international” union. That makes more sense.


58 posted on 04/29/2019 6:21:36 AM PDT by caver
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To: trebb
unions screw up everything they insinuate themselves into...

as do ALL collectivists...

59 posted on 04/29/2019 6:24:27 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: windsorknot

Not to mention a certifiable idiot; something he apparently has in common with Shitburger and the leadership of the IAFF.


60 posted on 04/29/2019 6:31:11 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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