Bloomberg Kidnapped the Union Vote

[rusty charly]

On July 14, the union's executive board voted 14 to 12 to endorse Bloomberg, the only time it's endorsed a mayoral candidate for a general election before the primary. It was also the only time in modern history that the union's backed a Republican, except its endorsement of Rudy Giuliani in 1997, an alliance that later led to jail time for the union brass who fraudulently fixed the vote on the contract they'd already signed with Giuliani.

Incredibly, DC 37 was in such a rush to close its end of the transparent transaction that it bypassed its own constitution, which requires that the 327-member delegate assembly vote on endorsements except when "time is of the essence."

http://tinyurl.com/9tojp

[robbedvoter]

1. Posted this in another thread, but fits here too:

" Just as his campaign was showing progress, Weiner was the target of a raucous noontime rally outside his campaign headquarters by several dozen members of unions that back Bloomberg.
They were protesting Weiner's remark in a debate Tuesday that "the city's labor leadership should hang their heads in shame" over their GOP endorsements.
More than three dozen demonstrators - who brought a 15-foot inflatable rat - carried placards saying, "Cheap Sound Bites Talk, Labor Walks," and chanted derisive slogans.
"I'm not sure what the protest was about," Weiner said. "They endorsed a Republican, a guy whose party has been fighting hard against working people from the moment they took office ."
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nycamp1943...