{"id":6050,"date":"2012-02-16T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2012-02-16T11:58:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:58:31","slug":"nolan-was-just-endorsed-by-the-teamsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6050","title":{"rendered":"Nolan was just endorsed by the Teamsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopee! I knew you&#8217;d be excited:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Nolan for Congress \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nTeamsters Joint Council 32 Drive Endorses<br \/>\nRick Nolan for Congress \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Harry \t\t\t\t\t\t\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing to share some great news. By unanimous vote  of its board, Teamsters Joint Council 32 DRIVE, representing more than 60,000 working families  across Minnesota and the Midwest,\u00c2\u00a0 has officially endorsed our campaign for 8th District Congress. <\/p>\n<p>The  Teamsters JC 32 DRIVE endorsement is one of organized labor&#8217;s most powerful, prestigious and  effective expressions of support.\u00c2\u00a0 The Teamsters are known for their political independence, for  their tough screenings, and for repeatedly picking and supporting winning candidates with extraordinary  grassroots efforts. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here in the 8th District, Teamster public employees, Teamster construction  workers, Teamster drivers and Teamster workers of all stripes have been fighting for fair wages  and benefits, and for economic justice for working families, for more than a century. <\/p>\n<p>I worked  my way through college as a Teamster at UPS, and I&#8217;m so proud that they continue to count me  as one of their own. My commitment to them, and all working families, is to return to Washington  and lead the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act, for pension protection, for single payer universal  health care, and for an end to the right wing war on workers that includes &#8216;right to work for  less.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, we are mobilizing working families throughout the 8th district with the endorsements  of the 12,000 member United Food and Commercial Workers Union, several union locals, the elected  leaders of several local unions and the leaders of all general labor councils in northern Minnesota.\u00c2\u00a0  Added to these are the personal endorsements of dozens of current and former political,  community and business leaders. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout the 8th district we are beginning to feel we matter  again.\u00c2\u00a0 We are joining together to take back the 8th district from control by the wealthy and powerful  1% and make people matter again in Washington DC.\u00c2\u00a0 The strength of this momentum was shown last  week when we polled over 52% of all DFL precinct caucus attendees who had a preference  in this congressional race, outpolling all other candidates combined. <\/p>\n<p>But the endorsement  I&#8217;m asking for today is yours. \u00c2\u00a0 Please make today the day you decide to help  make a difference.\u00c2\u00a0 You can do three things, now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whoopee! I knew you&#8217;d be excited: Rick Nolan for Congress \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Teamsters Joint Council 32 Drive Endorses Rick Nolan for Congress \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Dear&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}