Some SEIU Members Support Brown
What is happening in the increasingly upside down Massachusetts Special Election? For the Coakley campaign it must feel like the sky is falling. With large infusions of cash in the past week, SEIU leadership has tried to bail out the Attorney General and stop the slide that she is on. Maybe they should have asked their members before committing membership dues to a failing campaign.
As usual with unions, the rank and file are often of a different mindset than the leadership. But SEIU’s highly public support of Coakley, which will continue with the addition of union feet on the street until the election, will take a big PR hit from these photos.
In this case, a group of purple-shirted SEIU members are out in support of Brown.
See More Photos at Red Mass Group
Update from a Brown Supporter who was at the event.
To: mainstreetradical.com
I was at this stand out for Scott Brown last night that is pictured in the article. The picture was taken at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. None other than William Jefferson Clinton was the guest speaker. At the beginning they kept us 500 feet away. We worked our way over to the public street Clinton and Coakley had to use to get in. There were about 300 hundred Brown supporters there. When Martha got out of the car,the entire crowd was yelling for Brown. The look on Martha’s face was like someone had let all the air out of her balloon.There were about 10 to 12 SEIU people in purple shirts with us. One girl had a yellow sign that read “This SEIU girl is for BROWN!” Boston Local 25 of the Teamsters Union kept driving there 18 wheeler up and down the street we were on, every time he went we waved and cheered at him, he gave us the middle finger. The campus police let the sparse few Coakley supporters up to the entrance of the building. After the Coakley went in to the building a few people with union shirts on, came by with Coakley signs, as they passed us they tore the signs up and threw them in the street, with loud cheers from the Brown supporters.
After waiting for over an hour it was time for the motorcade to leave. Both sides of the street were lined with Scott Brown supporters, for almost a block. When Bubba went by the lights were on inside his silver, Chevy Tahoe (SUV bad you must give it up Global Warming) He was smiling and waving. No Coakley supporters were around.
We need to keep the pressure on tomorrow at Northeastern University at 3 PM the Messiah speaks for Coakley.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 3:45:06 PM by
pietraynor
paz
January 18, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Is this a hoax or true? If true, I hope so because anything Clinton supports is rubbish imo.
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CGrams
January 16, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Go MA voters!! Vote for your own conviction not someone else's!! Everyone should be an "unregistered independent" voter. Then neither party would become complacent that they are a shoo in. Both parties have been guilty of this. Independent voter watching in MN. GO BROWN!!
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