Posted on 09/29/2015 5:12:55 PM PDT by DaveinOK54
Woah – Reports That Teamsters Union Considering Donald Trump Endorsement….
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/...p-endorsement/
It was obvious early this morning that something was up. There was a tremor amid the Dark Force as Team Clinton came out with an announcement that she would support a change to ObamaCare that would kill the Cadillac tax on union healthcare plans.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets a supporter following her address at the 18th Annual David N. Dinkins Leadership and Public Policy Forum at Columbia University in New Yorkjim hoffa jrtrump with hat
Obviously Hillary Clinton is trying to shore up support from various labor unions who are increasingly finding the Democrat positions at odds with middle America.
The decision by Hillary Clinton NOT TO support the Keystone Pipeline was a serious strike against her. The decision to support the anti-American Trans-Pacific Trade deal was obviously additional blow. In an effort to recover credibility Hillary Clinton is now stating she opposes the Cadillac Tax on union healthcare benefits. However, it might be too little, too late.
According to Fox News insider reporting, the Teamsters Union voted behind closed doors today to withhold support from any presidential candidate until they can determine if Joe Biden will enter the race. In addition, the Teamsters Union stated they were open to considering putting their support behind Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has a longstanding relationship with the Teamsters Union through his various business interests. As a builder and developer the Teamsters have stated before they were always treated well by Donald Trump and his affiliates.
An alignment of the Teamster Union with Republicans has not been seen since the Reagan coalition was assembled in 1980 joining conservative Dems (Reagan Democrats or Blue Dogs), with pro-America growth Republicans.
After Reagan, the Teamsters have essentially voted in block with Democrats. However, today President Jimmy Hoffa Jr. said he was open to considering alignment with Republican Candidate Donald Trump.
Candidate Donald Trump supports U.S. first pro-growth polices including: Keystone Pipeline, renegotiating NAFTA, withdrawal from the current Trans-Pacific Trade Deal, border security, immigration reform and renewed financial efforts targeted to boost the middle-class worker. These are very favorable policy positions for the Teamsters Union.
An interesting development.
Could be YUGE !
Are you saying the Teamsters are not way left of where they were in 2000 or 1984? Seriously, are you saying that? With a straight face?
Are you saying they are as big and powerful as they were in 1984? Maybe you haven’t been tracking the union movement...it’s shrinking and moving left.
(except Gov unions, but that’s another topic)
“So it would be a great time to press Donnie on whether he supports right to work.
no no no...you need to get your mind right. That’s not conservatism anymore.”
There is nothing stopping anyone asking Trump this question, nothing at all. You posit the question as if Trump has already answered it in the negative, even though no one has even asked him the question in the first place, to my knowledge, nor do we know what he would say.
You and your cohort above just don’t like Trump as you make obvious on any given Trump thread. So can it, you hold no credibility.
I wish people would retain that simple fact!
I'm, not a fan of ANY government employee union, and detest most private employee unions.
I grew up in car town.I also watched them screw over steel town from afar. I watched them screw over everyone.
Like the mafia protection racket, only with the added selective force of law behind them.
The Teamsters jumped up and down for Obamacare!
They fully expected an eventual exemption from the “Cadillac tax” that was illegally phased in.
Low and behold, today all the RINOs and many Democrats came out in force, offering to give them that special exemption!
Screw them all!
“I predict that Trump will get the union’s support.”
I predict the Union will remain neutral and endorse no one, which is a statement by itself; however it will be safer for the Union to do this than outright endorse someone.
So it was only since Obama came into office that the Teamsters in your opinion went waaaaay left?
I see that Trump didn't initiate anything for their support, but the Teamsters voted to hold off to see what are their options.
Article- The decision by Hillary Clinton NOT TO support the Keystone Pipeline was a serious strike against her. The decision to support the anti-American Trans-Pacific Trade deal was obviously additional blow. In an effort to recover credibility Hillary Clinton is now stating she opposes the Cadillac Tax on union healthcare benefits. However, it might be too little, too late.
Well, we see that Hillary wants to kill Keystone, and her support for TPP that the Teamster may not like.
You do know that Trump wants to bring back million of US jobs and reinvigorate US industry? The Teamsters along with millions of Americans may like that too.
Unions may be coming back into fashion since corps want to push for more HB1 visas and illegals at the expense of the middle class.
Of course they could finesse the endorsement and endorse Trump for the GOP nomination, rather than endorsing him for President. (I’ve never heard of a union doing that, but newspapers sometimes make endorsements for the nomination for each party.)
I can not see Trump being for public service unions!!! He wants to CUT government waste, I don’t see him as a person to keep dead weight around unions make it impossible to rune the government efficiently!!!!!!
Yes they did back Reagan and Reagan turned around and FIRED all air traffic controllers for going on strike!!!! Reagan would NEVER have been able to do the same today, I HATE UNIONS!!!!!!
Unions do not like the trade deals that have been made.
This is a VERY smart tactic by the unions to prevent the Rats from automatically assuming they’e got the unions’ support. Even though Trump is behind shutting down illegal immigration and deporing as many illegals as possible, for the XL pipeline, and for bringing back manufacturing jobs from overseas, I still would be shocked if the unions endorsed Trump.
I think it’s just a negotiating ploy to obtain more leverage over the Rats.
Now it would be REALLY fun if the black organizations could figure out how to do the same thing to the Rats as well. It’d be a real hoot if they threatened to jump ship like the unions. The Rats would sweating .50 caliber machine gun bullets if their “natural” constituencies started to hold them up like this.
Very astute analysis of the worms.
They really wanted Walker but they will settle for Trump :/
I hope all the union bosses contract a viscous disease that causes them a slow and painful death in great pain and suffering.
They are directly responsible for the communist infiltration in this country.
BTW all of the union pensions are Ponzi schemes that are on life support and will become a disaster for the members counting on them for retirement very soon.
I hope the Unions stay away from Trump and he stays away from them. He does not need them.
Ya notice these same folks pee all over themselves about anything Trump, but not a whisper about unionized government employees?
Or the fact there are now more unionized government employees than exist in entire private sector America.
And they're paying the salaries of all those unionized employees!
That’s some really good Trump speak there. I’ve been practicing myself. :)
“We’ll get the question out there.”
I have full faith in any commitment that you make. I am certain that you will get that question to there.
Good luck and God bless....
Would be huge. Trump will bring jobs back. Hoffa would be insane to endorse Shillary
Unfortunately people can’t see the truth. Union slavery is a very democratic pay to play thing. How the unions great ponzu scheme is still working .. I don’t know.
Sorry to hear you live in a union slvery state too.
It was interesting to read the Cnn article here on Cuba and how it could be saved with union slavery. The article by cnn mentioned unions twice.
I have personally seen the teamsters block an urgent medical shipment just to bludgeon their way in. Lives do not matter to them... Only absolute subservience and well.. Money.
Good thing Reagan ain't running again - so many of the "uber conservatives" would be railing about how suspect he was for getting so much support that it fueled a landslide election....
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