In news that should be one of the biggest warnings for the Democrats, two of the nation’s top union bosses have resigned from the Democratic National Committee because they no longer feel the party is in their interests.
This is a very strange situation, of course. Unions have been straight-up Democrat for a hundred years. They have had no place in the Republican Party because their leaders are always wild-eyed socialists.
Now, it is true that union rank-and-file members are very often GOP leaning and getting more so all the time. It is also true that the odd-out union leader has been flirting with the GOP. But for the most part, union leaders are sold out wholly to the Democrats.
But this week, lunatic leftist Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers announced she was quitting the DNC. And on the heels of that, Lee Saunders of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) also quit.
This is mind boggling news. If the Democrats aren’t radical enough for these two… well, what is there to say?
NEWS: Randi Weingarten is out at DNC, citing disagreements with Ken Martin in a resignation letter.
"I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging."
She had been on DNC since 2002.
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MORE DNC NEWS: Lee Saunders, the president of AFSCME, is also out at the DNC.
This amounts to the exit of two of the highest-profile union leaders aligned with the Democratic Party.
The Times reported Randi Weingarten's exit earlier.
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For Weingarten, her resignation came after the new Dem. Chairman Ken Martin removed her from the powerful Rules and Bylaws Committee. Both Weingarten and Saunders supported Martin’s rival, Ben Wikler, for the party’s chair. Still, losing an internal powerplay has never before been ground to quit the party. Especially for union thugs like Weingarten and Saunders.
“While I am proud to be a Democrat, I appear to be out of step with the leadership you are forging, and I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more and more of our communities,” Weingarten said in a statement as she walked out the door.
“The decision to decline the nomination to the Democratic National Committee was not made lightly,” Saunders said in his own statement. “It comes after deep reflection and deliberate conversation about the path forward for our union and the working people we represent.”
The resignations are delicious, of course. And more evidence that the Democrats are in total disarray.
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