Several Democratic candidates threaten to skip next week’s presidential debate in Los Angeles

Washington Post ^ | 12/14/19 | Amy B Wang

[conservative98]

All of the presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s Democratic debate are threatening to skip the event in response to a labor dispute taking place at the debate venue, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), businessman Andrew Yang, former vice president Joe Biden, billionaire activist Tom Steyer, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Friday they would refuse to cross picket lines in solidarity with Unite Here Local 11, which represents food service workers at the university who have been negotiating for a collective bargaining agreement.

“UniteHere11 is fighting for better wages and benefits — and I stand with them,” Warren tweeted Friday afternoon. “The DNC should find a solution that lives up to our party’s commitment to fight for working people. I will not cross the union’s picket line even if it means missing the debate.”

Sanders and Yang followed shortly afterward with their own vows.

“We must live our values and there is nothing more core to the Democratic Party than the fight for working people,” Yang tweeted.

Within a few hours, Biden, Steyer, Klobuchar and Buttigieg had followed suit with public statements in support of the union.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Yang’s too busy splooging whipped cream into the mouths of beta pajama boys.

[ridesthemiles]

Every one of those crying out to ‘support’ the unions is totally invested in having EVERY job in the USA a UNION job.

Steyer used unclear verbage, but he means the same as Bernie & Warren.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks conservative98.