Posted on 01/09/2016 7:43:56 AM PST by GonzoII
The far-left progressive leader of the huge SEIU union admits that many or most of her blue-collar members are sympathetic to Donald Trump's pro-American populist message.
"I am deeply concerned about what is stirring, even in our membership... where our members are responding to Trump's message," she told David Axelrod, the chief campaign strategist for President Barack Obama's election in 2008.
Can you see Trump winning the election? Axelrod asked. "Yea, I could, I could," said Mary Kay Henry, the international president of the Service Employees International Union.
"Sixty-four percent of our public members identify as conservative, and are much more interested in the Republican debate than the Democratic debate at the moment," she admitted.
"Our white conservative membership that we hear is responding to Trump's appeal are more concentrated in the Midwest and the South," she said. That's critical, because the GOP candidate must do well in the Midwest to overcome the Democrats' advantages in the immigration-heavy coastal states. That claim of support is backed up by a recent Democratic survey.
To stomp on Trump's support, union's leaders are personally pressuring the members, she said.
"We're doing one-on-ones with every one of our members right now," said Henry. "We're going into hyperdrive, especially in the pockets of our membership that have a lot of Muslim leaders to stand against what is being said" by Trump, she said.
The interview was conducted Jan 4. The comments about Trump's message are mostly just after the 40-minute mark.
Henry's huge union claims a membership of roughly 2 million blue-collar workers, but is actually run by a professional cadre of far-left progressives. That leadership means the union's priorities including many progressive goals, such as greater immigration, more federal regulation of police and boosting the Democrats' power, beyond the labor-market task of fighting for wage and benefits...
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>>We’re going into hyperdrive, especially in the pockets of our membership
So, they’re reaching into pockets and moving their hand really, really fast??
Now THERE’S an endorsement Trump doesn’t need.
SEIU?
The same group that so fervently supported Obama?
Seriously?
The members are 64% conservative while their “leaders” are pure Communists.
Trump is fragmenting major strongholds of the Democrat party.
“Fervent” is the key word here. I see a lot of psychological similarities between Trump’s 2016 campaign and 0bama’s 2008 campaign. There is a synergistic self-reinforcing psychological energy loop going on; it’s a “event” and people want to be a part of it. Both campaigns are building on a sense that things are “going wrong” and a charismatic, popular leader has emerged to appears to understand the problems of the common man.
And Hillary is every bit the old worn-out politician that McCain was. The irony is that the Trump campaign is being used against the people who fomented 0bama’s 2008 campaign, who are suffering with supporting a dead candidate, just like the dead candidate they opposed in 2008.
I love irony, particularly when it’s applied to people I don’t like.
They bought into their leadership’s message last time & voted for Zero. Sounds like a few have learned from that mistake.
Trump is doing what the GOPe always claimed to want — attract voters from all across the spectrum.
So what do they do? Try to destroy him.
I’ve seen their members. The ones I saw were not conservative. They were hardcore communists.
Individuals thinking outside the collective and their dear leaders are worried ALERT!
They want full-time jobs. They want good-paying jobs. They want jobs with benefits. Trump promises to deliver.
I recently posted a piece on Donald Trump attributed to Peggy Noonan. That same piece is also attributed to Chuck Yeager. BOTH ARE BOGUS!
If you saw mine and sent it on, my sincere apologies!
That said, although the sentiments expressed were NOT Noonan’s or Yeager’s, more and more Americans are coming to understand that The Donald may be the only candidate — followed closely by Cruz — with the mindset, guts and other anatomical appurtenances to muck that fetid philosophical, ethical, moral and intellectual whore house on the Potomac!
This is probably our last chance to get that job done before we slide down the drain we’ve been circling for a few decades now.
Must go now and don my OSHA UNapproved asbestos BVDs to prepare for the massive flames from actual whores who deeply resent being compared to the creatures now infesting Malfunction Junction.
Read white.
Plus The Donald employs a number of union workers. They love him.
That must be all of those "moderate moslems" I keep hearing about. Always wondered where they were.
Maybe what you saw were SEIU’s rent a mobs, paid for by members dues and George Soros. Yet another example of the union leadership not representing the interests of the rank and file, but instead a political agenda. I would bet that most of the SEIU members who are part of the rent a mobs do not have real jobs. Maybe goobermint jobs in leftist city governments.
Even the Union Thugs from SEIU can’t stop the anger from most of the working class. The jig is up. No way “one on ones” are going to thwap this. The Grand Socialist Stomp has run out of other peoples’ money and it is payback time.
The union leadership is far left. The blue collar members are for Trump. This is good news that unions can’t deliver the votes to Hillary she is depending on. All the more reason to go Scott Walker on unions.
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