Dean got a union endorsement today

[pruner]

Later Thursday, Dean got the endorsement of a 7,000-member local of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union in Washington. Dean is building support for the nonbinding District of Columbia primary, scheduled for Jan. 13.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-dean-economy,0,6050391.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines (towards the bottom)

[Padraig18]

1. Awesome!

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

2. Well, this calls for some sort of celebration!

At least a celebratory high five! Or ten!
:D

This is Huge News and it's "towards the bottom"? :kick:

[RevolutionStartsNow]

3. That's great!

I know he's been working hard for labor support in DC, glad it paid off!

[Brucey]

4. What about Gep?

I thought he was getting all the unions?

[pruner]

5. with the expception of the IAFF (firefighters union) which Kerry got…

Gephardt had thusfar received all the union endorsements.

[JohnKleeb]

8. Kerry has got a few unions endorsements too

[pruner]

9. who else besides the IAFF?

n/t

[JaneQPublic]

6. Has the AFL-CIO made an endorsement yet?

The last I heard, they postponed their endorsement, when everyone was expecting them to boost Gephardt, and the reason was that many members were backing Dean.

Any news on that yet?

[pruner]

7. last news I saw was Hoffa saying he expected Gep to get the 2/3 necessary

but that's certainly not a lock.