Kamala Harris Is Winning the Teamsters Endorsements That Really Matter. The national leadership may have snubbed her—but Teamsters in the swing states that will decide the election are backing her all the way.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-teamsters-endorsements-election/
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Teamsters leadership who have a history of organized crime don’t like the tough on killers and rapists prosecutor. This is consistent. If someone follows the money, they might (?) discover that Sean O’Brien is on the take with Russian mobsters and their associates like Dictator Donald Trump.
Dictator Donald Trump likes the good old days of Elvis and Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa:
>In May 1963, Hoffa was indicted for [jury tampering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_tampering) in Tennessee, charged with the attempted [bribery](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery) of a [grand juror](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_jury) during his 1962 conspiracy trial in [Nashville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville,_Tennessee). Hoffa was convicted on March 4, 1964, and subsequently sentenced to eight years in prison and a $10,000 fine.[^([34])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#cite_note-prison-34)[^([30])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#cite_note-FOOTNOTESloane1991%5B%5BCategory:Wikipedia_articles_needing_page_number_citations_from_September_2020%5D%5D%3Csup_class=%22noprint_Inline-Template_%22_style=%22white-space:nowrap;%22%3E%5B%3Ci%3E%5B%5BWikipedia:Citing_sources|%3Cspan_title=%22This_citation_requires_a_reference_to_the_specific_page_or_range_of_pages_in_which_the_material_appears. (September_2020)%22%3Epage needed%3C/span%3E]]%3C/i%3E]%3C/sup%3E-30)[^([35])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#cite_note-Brill-35) While on [bail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bail) during his [appeal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal), Hoffa was convicted in a second trial held in [Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago), on July 26, 1964, on one count of [conspiracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)) and three counts of [mail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_fraud) and [wire fraud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_fraud) for improper use of the Teamsters’ [pension fund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_fund), and sentenced to five years in prison.[^([34])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#cite_note-prison-34)[^([36])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#cite_note-36)
>Hoffa spent the next three years unsuccessfully appealing his 1964 convictions. Appeals filed by his chief counsel, defense attorney [Morris Shenker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Shenker), reached the [U.S. Supreme Court](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States). He began serving his aggregate prison sentence of 13 years (eight years for bribery, five years for fraud)[^([37])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#cite_note-commuted-37) on March 7, 1967, at the [Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Penitentiary,_Lewisburg) in [Pennsylvania](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania).[^([38])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa#cite_note-prison2-38)
What is a teamster?
When I heard that the Teamsters were allowing locals to make endorsements instead of having a single national endorsement, I thought this might play out well for Kamala Harris. A lot of the Teamsters in blue states have benefited from Biden admin infrastructure and they’re on board with endorsing her. And every time she picks up a new endorsement it makes the news, with a heavy focus on local coverage especially in battleground states. This actually might be a better way to do endorsements in terms of having an impact on the swing states.
So out of the 1.3 million members Harris has gotten support from locals representing 1 million members.
That has to be rather embarassing for O’Brien.
I heard last week that the teamsters that show up and vote are the old retired ones that are boomer/trumpers. The younger teamsters are the ones working and don’t feel the same.
I thought a significant majority of the actual workers in the union were Trump supporters? Why isn’t the union representing the people it’s supposed to actually represent?
NALC also endorsed Harris-Walz
The national union effectively endorsed her by not naming a preference, and allowing local unions to do so…
Don’t tell the NYT that. That kinda nuanced reporting isn’t in their grasp these days.
Such a funny headline. “Those didn’t count”
Why does this surprise people?
Trump is actively, and PUBLICLY looking for people of power (Musk, Thiel) who are willing to break up/prevent the formation of unions.
Why in the world would UNION people (cult members aside) want to support ANTI-UNION candidates?