Teamsters union President Sean O'Brien torches Democratic Party: 'They have f---ed us over'

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Politics Published October 8, 2024 1:21pm EDT
Teamsters union President Sean O'Brien torches Democratic Party: 'They have f---ed us over'
Teamsters boss says Democrats 'need to look in the mirror' as party loses support from union's members
 
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By Breck Dumas FOXBusiness
 
Teamsters General President Sean OBrien reveals why the union decided not to endorse either former President Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris on Your World.

Teamsters President Sean O'Brien issued a sharp condemnation of the Democratic Party in a recent interview, saying the party has itself to blame for losing support from the union's rank-and-file members.


"I'm a Democrat, but they have f---ed us over for the last 40 years," O'Brien said during a sit-down with Theo Von for the comedian's "This Past Weekend" podcast. "And for once – and not all – but for once, we're standing up as a union, probably the only one right now, saying, ‘what the f--- have you done for us?’"
 

The Teamsters made waves this year by breaking with Democrats for the first time in decades by declining to endorse a presidential candidate for 2024, after the union's internal polling showed its members favored Republican former President Donald Trump with 59.6% support over Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, who received 34% support.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/teamsters-union-president-sean-obrien-torches-democratic-party-they-have-f-ed-us-over

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Would this have anything to do with many union members being "deplorables"?

I suspect many are not Liberal Arts college graduates.
I presume some are heterosexual.
Other's may be white.
Some may be males.
A few may be Christian.
Many may be of Western European ancestry.

Those are constituencies the Dems have been vilifying since the 1990s.

Imagine that, voters don't want to elect officials who have contempt for them and promote DEI hiring and college admission preferences and quotas that discriminate against them.

So, this is a question I put to Dems and Repubs ... what are you doing for me?  The answer is nada, zilch, zero.  The Repubs hurt me less than the Dems but the Repubs' corporate tax breaks don't help me and their cap on SALT deductions has screwed me over.