{"id":181897,"date":"2016-02-17T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/17\/afl-cio-declines-to-endorse-clinton\/"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:13:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:13:00","slug":"afl-cio-declines-to-endorse-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/17\/afl-cio-declines-to-endorse-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL-CIO Declines to Endorse Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/afl-cio-vote-endorsement\">For a while, at least<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">In a win for Bernie Sanders, the AFL-CIO is delaying making it&#8217;s endorsement in the surprisingly close Democratic presidential primary.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Following recent discussion at the AFL-CIO\u2019s Executive Committee meeting and subsequent conversations with many of you, I have concluded that there is broad consensus for the AFL-CIO to remain neutral in the presidential primaries for the time being and refrain from endorsing any candidate at this moment,&#8221; Trumka said in the email.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh to be a fly on the wall for that Executive Committee meeting.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that committee did not want to deal with a pissed off rank and file, particularly when they want to energize them in the general election.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I think that they are beginning to doubt her inevitability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, at least: In a win for Bernie Sanders, the AFL-CIO is delaying making it&#8217;s endorsement in the surprisingly close Democratic presidential primary.\u2026\u2026\u2026&#8220;Following recent discussion at the AFL-CIO\u2019s Executive Committee meeting and subsequent conversations with many of you, I have concluded that there is broad consensus for the AFL-CIO to remain neutral in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1165,1023,977,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endorsement","category-labor","category-presidential-campaign","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}