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Teachers union president backs Ellison for DNC chair
Thje Hill ^ | February 17, 2017 | By Lydia Wheeler

Posted on 02/17/2017 12:26:10 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) on Friday picked up the backing of the head of the nation’s largest teachers union in his bid to lead the Democratic National Committee.

In a statement announcing her personal endorsement, National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García said she knows Ellison will be a unifying force for Democrats.

“Keith’s emphasis and well-documented commitment to party building and grassroots organizing in every community is exactly what we need as the nation finds itself at a crossroad under the divisive Trump administration,” she said.

Eskelsen García’s endorsement comes just hours after the Service Employees International Union called on its members who can vote for DNC chair to cast their votes for Ellison.

Ellison has been jockeying for the support of leading labor organizations in the race against his chief rival for the post, former Labor Secretary Tom Perez. So far his supporters include the AFL-CIO, Teamsters, United Steelworkers, American Federation of Government Employees, Communications Workers of America, UNITE HERE and National Nurses United. . .

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KEYWORDS: ellison; keithellison; teachers; teachersunion; union
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1 posted on 02/17/2017 12:26:10 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yes!!!!

I say we here at FR start a “ellison for dnc” movement! In fact the GOP should do that!

It. Would. Be. GREAT!!!!


2 posted on 02/17/2017 12:28:20 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Now that the teachers’ union is pimping Islamofascism in the public schools I can see why they would back a Muslim.


3 posted on 02/17/2017 12:30:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Never thought I would agree with the teacher union about anything. LOL


4 posted on 02/17/2017 12:31:21 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

5 decades of massive government debt and spending in a fiat currency have enabled many leftist social-engineering schemes and political power-grabbing to come to reality.

Here is proof of it all.


5 posted on 02/17/2017 12:35:16 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Brad from Tennessee

ALLU FUBAR!!!


6 posted on 02/17/2017 12:36:14 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Perfect, The Dems are swerving so far Left they will finally expose themselves as bone fide socialist kooks just as the media finally exposed themselves as hate filled Left Wing activists.


7 posted on 02/17/2017 12:37:08 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They should pick him. The democrat party has become an America-hating muzzie loving institution. He would be someone who reflects their aspirations.


8 posted on 02/17/2017 12:37:14 PM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Just when you think these Extreme, Alt-Leftists have finally fallen off the edge of the earth they take another step.


9 posted on 02/17/2017 12:37:15 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

we have GOT GOT to get these d***ed traitors OUT OF running our childrens’ schools (screwalls)!!!!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 02/17/2017 12:37:16 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Do it. Please. That would be great.

Best thing to happen to the DNC. Way better than Howard Dean, Terry Mc or Debbie W-S.

Winning~!

;)


11 posted on 02/17/2017 12:39:24 PM PST by Qwackertoo (Worst 8 years ever, First Affirmative Action President, I hope those who did this to us SUFFER MOST!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
The leftists have finally found a religion that they can identify with!

Why do leftists love Islam? It is totalitarian, allows no dissent, everything they preach is from god (Allah), Allah make's no moral demands, they can cut heads off all those who disagree, and at the end of their life they get their 72 virgins (both men and lesbian leftist women).
12 posted on 02/17/2017 12:40:49 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

this is absolutely SHOCKING (and disgusting), EVEN if its from a screwall union hack

SHOCKING!

we need to get these traitors OUT of our kids’ schools!!!


13 posted on 02/17/2017 12:41:49 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Me too.


14 posted on 02/17/2017 12:43:13 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: Qwackertoo

“Howard Dean”

I wouldn’t put him in the cast of characters like Terry McLunatic and mayo-head ... Dean is a brilliant man ... The “Dean Scream” may have done him in, but I think the media pushed that to get the establishment pick of John Kerry on the Dem’s ticket in 2004. He is far from unhinged.

Under Dean’s leadership, the Dems won big in 2006 and even bigger in 2008. After the ascension of their boy-God Obama, it’s been all downhill for the Dems (despite 2012) ... that downhill trend started shortly after Dean left (I think the neighborhood-child-molesting-looking freak was appointed next ... probably for grooming ... Kaine wound up on the Dem’s ticket in 2016 as we witnessed).

Elison’s appointment will be a gift. They need a tactician in that office, not a rabble rouser ... they’re only going to get funnier in that they won’t be gaining any power while he’s calling the shots.


15 posted on 02/17/2017 1:01:46 PM PST by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The Left seems to be on a mission to drive Trump’s approval numbers north of 70%


16 posted on 02/17/2017 1:13:42 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The demise is underway


17 posted on 02/17/2017 1:14:44 PM PST by keving (We the People)
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To: keving

Perfect! Pitch perfect!


18 posted on 02/17/2017 1:19:59 PM PST by refermech
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Yes !

Please Do This !



19 posted on 02/17/2017 2:06:29 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I've already predicted that the raving mad White feminists will eventually be shocked when they discover no-one wants their support.
Black Muslims certainly won't want their association.

The white feminists and the LGBT will be without a party.(at least one that wants them)

20 posted on 02/17/2017 2:32:16 PM PST by blam
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