West Coast Dockworkers Endorse Bernie Sanders for President

[ForgoTheConsequence]

Source: The Wall Street Journal

ILWU breaks with East Coast ports union in backing Vermont Democrat over Hillary Clinton

West Coast port dockworkers endorsed Bernie Sanders for president on Thursday, breaking with their counterparts on the East Coast who had endorsed Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Mr. Sanders, the Vermont Democratic senator who has run behind Mrs. Clinton in the race for the party’s nomination, “is best on the issues that matter most to American workers,” Robert McEllrath, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, said in a statement. That includes “better trade agreements, support for unions, fair wages,” and other issues including “fighting a corrupt campaign finance system.”

The ILWU represents about 50,000 workers at ports in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.

Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/west-coast-dockworkers-endorse-bernie-sanders-for-president-1458858076

[SoapBox]

1. Excellent!

[Cryptoad]

2. If they all vote for Bern

not enough to change the Math!

[highprincipleswork]

3. Well, perhaps they will. That and others!!!!

[quakerboy]

4. If they bring Oregon, Washington, and California

with them, it is plenty to give Bernie the pledged delegate lead.

Is it likely? No. Is it still very possible? Definitely so. Lets see how Washington state goes here in a few days.

[jmowreader]

5. It's slightly possible at best

California is the big problem for Bernie: minorities just don't seem all that into him, and California has a very high population of them.

He has another problem in Washington (besides the fact that Asians don't like him and Washington has a lot of them): the Export-Import Bank. Without the Ex-Im Bank, which Sanders despises, he loses the Boeing workers, the ag workers in the middle of the state, and I have no idea why the longshoremen - whose jobs are highly dependent on it - like him.

FWIW the Hillary campaign has already penciled Washington into the "unlikely" column.

[Cryptoad]

11. Funny how the minorities and teh poor

dont like Bern. But after u listen to him speak u start to understand. He is always talks over them not to them. Seems he is most interested in attracting young elitist White Progressives. Maybe why the Math says there is No Way for Bern.

[quakerboy]

16. I dont think those words mean what you think they mean.

Especially after WA results, and now the NV thing... The math is very open to Bernie. 250 or so delegates is not much of a lead when so many of the remaining contests favor Bernie. But we will see. Its still not what I would call likely. But the math got easier.

[noamnety]

18. Your post is unrelated to the OP

But kudos for cramming three talking points into your short post.

Unrelated to that - Hey, does anyone know if the people who get paid to post talking points are paid purely by the number of posts, or if they get an extra incentive to cram multiple scripted talking points into one reply?

[greymouse]

19. yeah, he did so poorly in Hawaii. Oh, wait.

[quakerboy]

17. Its seems more than "slightly"

Washington, I think you will agree, went exceptionally well for Bernie.

And I was in California last week. Everywhere I went, the conversation at the table over, or the people in line at the store, or walking down the street was on politics, and most of those were about Bernie, putting him in a positive light. A few were about how crazy trump was. As best I can tell, the people of California are very excited to actually have a chance to matter in the primary.

In my mind the bigger question is NY/NJ/PA. If bernie can hold his own and roughly tie in those states, and then carry the smaller states and CA with similar margins to the last three.. he wins the pledged delegate count. He needs the trifecta, Holding his own there, winning the smaller states convincingly, and winning California with a decent margin. While tough, that is not anywhere near impossible at this point.

[CountAllVotes]

6. The Longshoreman's Union

Now that is a BIG endorsement indeed.

Go Bernie Sanders Go!!!

& recommend.

[pandr32]

7. Excellent endorsement. Congratulations Sanders!

[Jefferson23]

9. Thank you, that was very nice of you to say. n/t

[pandr32]

12. You're welcome--it is a huge endorsement

[Jefferson23]

13. It is and I appreciate your acknowledgment.

[Jefferson23]

8. VERY good. n/t

[pampango]

10. Bernie is "best on the issues that matter most to American workers": “better trade agreements,

“better trade agreements, support for unions, fair wages ..."

Not Trumps promise to "rip up all existing free trade agreements" (replace them with 'better' agreements or just go unilateral), spread 'right-to-work' to further weaken labor unions and oppose raising the minimum wage.

[Jenny_92808]

15. +1

Yes!

[Jenny_92808]

14. YAY!

Go Bernie!

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[CharlotteVale]

20. K&R