Big Teamsters group to back Onorato

The Pennsylvania Conference of Teamsters, representing about 92,000 workers statewide, will endorse Democrat Dan Onorato for governor at a news conference tomorrow in Philadelphia, the Onorato campaign announced.

The Teamsters will become the first statewide union to endorse a candidate in the May 18 Democratic primary for governor.

The move will come two days in advance of the Democratic State Committee meeting on Saturday in Lancaster, at which party leaders from around the state will consider whether to endorse any of the four Democrats in the race. Party rules say it takes a two-thirds majority for any candidate to win endorsement.

Posted by Tom Infield @ 1:01 PM Permalink | 3 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:25 PM, 02/03/2010

Well, I'm not voting for Onorato. Unions already have too much power in this state. No doubt with more power they'll scare even more jobs to the south and/or other countries.

— bpp1999

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:29 PM, 02/03/2010

I am glad to know that the teamsters are backing Onorato I can now mark him down as the first do not vote for on my list.Are any of them tea baggers running?

— bobg1812

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:59 PM, 02/09/2010

I'd like to hear more about the Teamsters' run-ins with Waste Management, a big contributor to Tom Corbett. Is Corbett, the former General Counselor of Waste Management, using his prosecutorial power to further an anti-union agenda? However you stand on union issues, that would be a betrayal of the public trust.

— bnjmnortiz

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