Fox News is very mad that a union endorsed Biden (VIDEO)

[highplainsdem]

https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-host-brian-kilmeade-doesnt-understand-how-unions-work-joe-biden-international-association-firefighters-d8145e64b868/

The International Association of Fire Fighters, a labor union representing more than 300,000 firefighters and emergency medical service providers, endorsed Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign on Monday. Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade apparently found this very concerning.

In a Monday morning interview with the union’s general president, Harold Schaitberger, Kilmeade repeatedly demanded to know why the mandatory union dues for the “many of those firefighters” who actually support President Donald Trump would be used to elect a candidate they oppose.

Schaitberger explained that the group’s voluntary political action committee donations, not its union dues, would be used for political spending — but Kilmeade would not relent.

-snip-

“If someone calls you, if one of your members calls you today and says, ‘Do not use my dues to support Joe Biden,’ what will you do?” he demanded.

“I will say that our political resources are those that come from our members who voluntarily contribute to our political operations,” Schaitberger calmly replied. “Not your dues.”

Video at the link.

[Iliyah]

1. Fireman's Union to boot!

[underpants]

2. But but our viewers have been told for YEARS that unions use union dues

🤯

[TeamPooka]

3. Kilmeade is a fucking idiot. Biggest moron on TV. Ever. nt

[blue-wave]

15. I might add that Kilmeade

Is an asshat too.

[Hortensis]

4. :) This union's members decamped heavily to not just Trump

but other Republicans in 2016 after ODing on too much equality. Sure, Fox is angry at this rejection only halfway through. The midterms were a really bad sign, and this is also!

Apparently, after weakly coming through and supporting a black Democrat for president twice, asking the IAFF's overwhelmingly white male members to vote for a woman was the last straw, or as Schaitberger and the media put put it, Democrats failed to "connect" with them.

But they see white, male Vice President Biden as someone they can trust, and rightly so as a liberal, middle class upbringing, lifelong union supporter, defender of working people.

That was Hillary too, but...oh, well. That was 2016. We're working on 2020.

[Johnyawl]

10. The IAFF membership is horribly misogynistic

My wife was a delegate to the 2004 Democratic convention. The IAFF was all in for Kerry and the convention was full of firefighters. Really a bunch of great democrats, aside from being slightly racist and horribly misogynistic. lol

[Hortensis]

12. :) Interesting, not surprising.

Hardly the only ones in our big tent. We even have running for president a couple of the house's #FiveWhiteMen whose sole claim to distinction is trying to kick our nation's highest ranking woman out of party leadership because she's a woman -- none of the 5 others, who were men, just her.

Well, now our national house is on fire and it's looking like most will answer the call this time. Depending.

Nevertheless, it's a very positive sign. I'm tacking it up on my mental board under the midterms.

[oldsoftie]

13. Huh?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Fuck Fox News with a flaming GOT sword

That is all.

[friendly_iconoclast]

6. Hah! I like the cut of your jib...

[ancianita]

7. Hey, Kilmeade...

[jayschool2013]

8. Brian Kilmeade's brain

[Hortensis]

9. Sounds good. Some in the IAFF are still trumpsters,

and this respects their wishes.

Btw, any Fox teeth-grinding about the union declining to endorse Senator Sanders? They went very heavily for Trump in the 2016 general, but before that in the binary, alternative-to-her primary Sanders drew more.

[BigmanPigman]

11. He is hitting it out of the ballpark at his PA rally right now.

Lots of pro-union talk and the "stuck" middle class, the uneven economy, taxes real people pay, and how the stock market is good for the rich.

*For some reason I feel like watching my Norma Rae video now.

[IronLionZion]

14. Biden has always had support from firefighters, going back decades

Kilmeade is just stupid to be surprised by this endorsement

[ProudMNDemocrat]

16. When my husband was an active UAW member where he worked.......

There would be drives to raise money for seperate PACs. This was all voluntary. There would also be a raffle involved to win one of the Ford Trucks made by UAW workers at the once St. Paul plant. Thousands were raised that helped candidates who supported Union workers. No dues went to candidates.