Posted on 10/03/2015 6:30:57 AM PDT by GonzoII
Reports say that the influential Teamsters union may snub Hillary Clinton in favor of endorsing a Republican candidate such as Donald Trump for the White House in 2016.
Such a move would likely be a notable boost for Republicans with Independents and “Reagan Democrats,” a critical segment of swing-voters that candidates spend millions trying to woo. These “middle of the road” type voters are crucial to winning bellwether regions like Michigan’s Macomb County.
Clinton also faces snubs from other powerful unions like the AFL-CIO and AFSCME, refusing to back Hillary as they try to push Vice President Joe Biden into the race.
According to The Gateway Pundit:
“Teamsters officials met behind closed doors today. The union refused to endorse Hillary Clinton for president. The officials told FOX News they want to meet with Donald Trump.
James Rosen reported:
FOX News has learned exclusively the 26 member board decided unanimously to withhold a presidential endorsement… Union executives told me they want to sit down with Republican candidates, most noatably, front-runner Donald Trump who has collaborated with unionized work forces across his real estate career.”
Former Michigan Congressman Pete Hoekstra says Trump won’t likely be the only GOP Presidential hopeful they sit down with.
“I would be surprised if they only met with Trump,” Hoekstra said in an interview with CIB. “They should meet with others. I think John Kasich might be worth a look from them, Rand Paul has shown a willigness to work with people, Marco Rubio perhaps also-there’s four right there.”
Hoekstra says the group may not want to meet with Jeb Bush.
“Hoffa tried to reach out and was constantly rebuffed by the Bush administration,” Hoekstra said. “So they probably wouldn’t want to meet with Jeb.”
Hoekstra is well acquainted with the Teamsters, which he says is immensely professional and more independent than other unions.
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Oh I am so sorry, n is no where near s on the keyboard, I did copy paste and I really messed it up. I either need new glasses, need to slow down, or proof read even more. It was not intended, again my apologizes My best, Taildragger
sorry but you are wrong.. the south up until the 80s were almost all Democrat and they were not hard left. I know what I’m talking about I have lived in the south all my life
First of all, you did not specify “The South” in your post and the Democrats as a party nominated a hard Left anti-war (and all the socialist rhetoric that came with that movement) in George McGovern in 1972.
The McGovern folks took over the platform and moved the party hard Left that year. The party never recovered.
In the mid 60s you had McGovern, and a bunch of other progressively Leftist Democrats buying into the anti-War movement. By 1972, they wrestled control of the party away from the more moderates and we’ve had strident Leftist candidates from the Leftist (Democrats) ever since.
This is not a commentary on the Democrats of the South. It’s just a hard cold fact about the overall party.
You beat my comment for sure.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3332092/posts?page=4#4
Here’s another comment I made about Trump’s potential crossover appeal.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3331438/posts?page=3#3
The DC establishment has no idea how furious people are out here in the real world.
I am keeping my powder dry on Trump for one very big reason. I was in Californina when the Gray Davis recall happened and voters were outraged. That outrage elevated the “Govenator” into office as the “anti-Gray” candidate and the California Republican Party has still not recovered from his ineptitude.
Besides your accurate assessment below. Trump will benefit with the Bradley Effect when those in unions will vote for him like for Reagan and not announce their intent.
Who knows even posters like you might come under the Bradley effect and vote for Trump and not tell us.:)
“As I some others have posted here on FR in the last 45-60 days, Donald Trump has massive appeal to the Blue Dog/Yellow Dog Democrats, just like Ronald Reagan did. (That is NOT in any way to be construed as my saying Trump is “Reaganesque.”)”
“If Trump holds his lead through to January and continues to make inroads with the Blue Dog/Yellow Dog Democrats and the Unions, Trump will be unstoppable.”
This is so Reaganeque. JOBS JOBS JOBS> The Unions got screwed in this overseas treason.
“Reagan was hated by union leadership”
Then how did he get their official endorsement in 1980 and 1984?
the Democrat party of today is much further to the left than it was 40 years ago.. it’s just a no brainer fact and I think some unions like the pro American Teamsters have almost nothing in common with the America hating, tax raising, job losing, muzzie loving leftists who are the Democrat party of today.. there is NO WAY an avowed self described socialist could have run for President on the Democratic ticket 40 years ago let alone be leading in some of their polls for President.. no way.
Hubert Humphrey in 1968 was the last of the normal Democrats to run for the office of the presidency. He was a Leftist, but he was from the old school, still loving the nation. From McGovern on, hard core Leftists were the norm.
1972 George McGovern, 1976 Jimmy Carter, 1980 Jimmy Carter, 1984 Walter Mondale, 1988 Michael Dukakis, 1992 Bill Clinton, 1996 Bill Clinton, 2000 Albert Gore, 2004 John Kerry, 2008 Barack Obama, 2012 Barack Obama.
Every one of these people were hard core Leftists. Carter has traveled to the most socialist nations on the planet and cozied up to their dictators.
While the Democrat party of today is certainly worse than it was in 1972, that is still the time when the hard Left took over the party.
We can look back to our own party and see that Bush was the beginning of the end for our beliefs too. Is the party worse now than under Bush. Well sure, but he was the one who took us off the rails.
The candidates since Reagan have had no clue about Conservatism. Just because McCain was by far the worst nominee we’ve ever had, it still doesn’t mean that Bush was a good guy, or that the GOPe was solid even back then.
The majority Party Democrats from the early 70s are the ones who actually demanded Nixon call cease-fires every time we had North Vietnam on the ropes. The North would resupply and come back at us even harder due to Congress’ actions. The Left in those days called our troops war criminals. John Kerry testified before the Senate making that claim to cheering Democrats in that body.
You had Walter Cronkite declaring the North the victors in battles, which wasn’t true. The hard Left newspapers were propagandizing for the North.
Angela Davis, Dorn, Aires,... these people were all the rage back then. Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, these were prominent Leftist of the day protesting in groups against the Republicans and doing their best to advocate for Communism inside our nation.
This is the time when capitalist concern across the nation came under file. Banks were burned down. Anti police terrorism was in full bloom. These folks were all spinoffs of the incredibly Leftist anti-war movement which McGovern was proud to represent.
That movement was hard Left into socialism.
GOOD!
If they really care about blue collar jobs, all they have to do is disband and the jobs can come back.
Back in the 60’s & 70’s Chicago was transformed from an industrial city to a wasteland of closed factories which all moved to “right to work” states in south.
But did the unions learn? Nope! The membership may have learned, but the union bosses seldom do.
Trump must not offer the unions anything. Keep them guessing. As someone else said, go over the union bosses’ heads to the rank and file.
He will be the unions’ best friend in the WH. Where’s his stance on RTW, Bacon-Davis, and ending government unions?
They really are pushing the envelope. I don't think they have any idea how close they are:
"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." - T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.
And it's happening now. .
Yeah, she’s done for.
Unions would be smart to lock up with Trump... (not federal unions)...He’s really more in their court than anyone... I mean he wants to bring jobs back to this country...
If Trump favors Federal unions, then that’s a big strike against him in my mind
I was not referring to the Teamster's in particular but to labor as a whole. Reagan got the endorsement of the Teamster's Union but few other union endorsements. Despite once being a union official, Reagan was not liked by the Labor movement.
In October 1985 Alpha Group was tasked with a counter-terrorism hostage-rescue operation in Beirut Lebanon. Four Russian diplomats had been kidnapped there by a fundamentalist Islamic group which called itself the Islamic Liberation Organization, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. It has been speculated that this hostage-taking was revenge for Russia's support of Syria which was engaged in the shelling of Islamist militants in the Lebanese city of Tripoli. They threatened to kill the hostages one at a time unless the Soviets pressured it's ally in Damascus to put a stop to attacks on the militants in Tripoli.
When Alpha arrived on the ground they found that one of the four hostages had already been shot in the head and left in a trash dump. Alpha Group quickly responded by doing something which sent a very clear and unambiguous message to those hostage-takers. Through their knowledge of who the hostage-takers were they tracked down and located one of their kinsmen and proceeded to castrate him and then send on the dismembered body parts to the hostage-takers! But not only that, with that they also sent a note indicating they knew some other relatives of the hostage-takers who could also be hurt in similar ways. Seeing how serious the Russians were the hostage-takers promptly released these hostages -- dropping them off near the Soviet Embassy. No more Russians were taken hostage in Lebanon for another twenty years as a result of the Alpha Groups ruthlessness when it came with dealing with those people.
-Paul Iddon Oct 30, 2013
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