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In reply to the discussion: The Democratic platform committee is only allowing 1 labor group-why isn't labor part of the base? [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)12. Keep saying that...
...and labor will FIND somewhere else to go...
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The Democratic platform committee is only allowing 1 labor group-why isn't labor part of the base? [View all]
azurnoir
Jun 2016
OP
because the DNC is corporate owned and does not want to hear the peoples voice
swhisper1
Jun 2016
#1
This place begins to sound more and more like Fox News...so now we are against Unions?
insta8er
Jun 2016
#79
no, I didnt say that. I want to save them. Corruption does exist in any large body
swhisper1
Jun 2016
#80
so you're admitting that the much ballyhoo'd union endorsements Hillary received were only
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#8
as to the Teamsters and Reagan if memory serves they cut a deal with him wherein he deregulated the
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#14
so Dana Vickers Shelley was lying when she said only one labor group allowed? ?
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#9
As was discussed a couple weeks ago, when this was posted numerous times, both Sanders and Clinton
SFnomad
Jun 2016
#6
Because the democratic party doesn't care about labor. Labor gets in the way of the lobbyists.
jillan
Jun 2016
#16
They excluded Rose Ann DeMoro, the President of the Nurses Union and his super-PAC
Starry Messenger
Jun 2016
#17
they said only 1 labor group, moreover it seems rather vindictive of the DNC to go back 16 years
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#19
So, if you supported Nader, you can expect to be blacklisted unto your tenth generation?
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#22
If you supported Nader, you really should not be drafting anything for Democrats. Nt
msanthrope
Jun 2016
#31
Even though that was sixteen years ago and this person has been back in the party for ages?
Ken Burch
Jun 2016
#32
No one caused Nader's run but his egotism. That you do not see the sheer opportunism
msanthrope
Jun 2016
#51
That's ridiculous. Nader's positions are in line with the roots of the Democratic Party.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#34
It's smart. People who fell for Nader have no business leading Democrats. nt
msanthrope
Jun 2016
#50
Nor do people who support the TPP, private prisons, compromising a woman's right
cui bono
Jun 2016
#76
Because Bill Clinton sold labor out when he embraced the DLC and corporate money.
cui bono
Jun 2016
#33
The political party that labor built is no longer representing labor. My dad is rolling over
B Calm
Jun 2016
#38
In retrospect the eventual course of labor in America was set by the Hardhat Riot
Fumesucker
Jun 2016
#40
We're not about working people anymore. Now it telecomm, insurance and payday loan corporations.
Scuba
Jun 2016
#42
If giving monopolies to telecomms is "addressing infrastructure" we're doing a great job!
Scuba
Jun 2016
#63
Labor had already been picked and is represented as I posted in another post. nt
Demsrule86
Jun 2016
#85
The DNC allowed West and rejected the head of the nurses union-why would they do that?
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#71
Union leadership is represented on the full platform committee...this is the reason
Demsrule86
Jun 2016
#84
They're only confirming in THIS convention what they started to do in the 1980s...
MrMickeysMom
Jun 2016
#53
If you are going that route than another question to ask is why each state
LiberalFighter
Jun 2016
#83
seems a big deal that the Communication Workers of America now support Hillary
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#86
Interesting that the AFL-CIO endorsement of Clinton is being so strongly touted
azurnoir
Jun 2016
#91