Posted on 12/16/2019 9:01:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
Controversy continues to roil this week’s upcoming Democratic presidential primary debate in Los Angeles amid an ongoing labor dispute, anger over the tightening qualification standards and discontent with Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez.
The debate, which was originally slated to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), was moved to Loyola Marymount University after AFSCME Local 3299 — the union representing more than 25,000 University of California service and patient technical care workers — and the state school forced UCLA to inform the Democrats and its media partners to abandon plans to host the debate at the Luskin School of Public Affairs.
But another labor dispute at Loyola Marymount University is now once again threatening the December 19 debate and the top Democratic primary candidates are threatening to boycott the event if they have to cross a picket line to get to the stage.
A labor union called UNITE HERE Local 11 says it will picket outside the event, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders responded by tweeting they wouldn’t participate if that meant crossing it. Former Vice President Joe Biden, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind.; Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, environmental activist Tom Steyer and businessman Andrew Yang followed suit. …
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“Didn’t the field get narrowed down by a combination of :. Support as measured in public opinion polls, and support as measured in contributions received?”
indeed. but there was no affirmative action rule for unpopular candidates, hence the putative “artificial narrowing” claim ...
Warren-—Bernie—Steyer are hard core proponents of EVERY job in the USA be a UNION JOB.
The irony of this dust up is delicious.
“Jeb Bush could run as a Democrat.
He is for sure stupid enough to jump in.”
He’s to slow to jump in.
all of this doesn’t really matter because Hillary is going to be the candidate.
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