Democrats have an ego drawback, Teamsters president Sean O’Brien says.
The pinnacle of the nation’s largest union mentioned the celebration that after stood for the working class has “somehow lost their way” and it simply value them the election.
He advised the Herald Tuesday that the celebration of AOC — New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — and VP Kamala Harris failed to understand as we speak’s political local weather.
“They feel it’s a birthright that they would get our support,” he mentioned. “It’s troubling. They can’t dictate how voters should think.
“It’s the fault of some Democrats who just forgot where they came from,” the Boston native added. “They need to be a little humble about it.”
The Herald reached out to O’Brien on Christmas Eve as his interview with Tucker Carlson was going viral. In that sitdown, O’Brien confirmed he was advised by Harris pre-election that she wasn’t going to abide by the Teamsters’ full set of questions and solutions.
That roundtable, held after President Biden introduced he wasn’t going to hunt reelection, was reduce quick with the VP solely answering 1 / 4 of their 16 questions. Trump answered all of them, the New York Submit added.
“On the fourth question, one of her operatives or one of her staff slips a note in front of me — ‘This will be the last question.’ And it was 20 minutes earlier than the time it was going to end,” O’Brien advised Carlson.
“And her declaration of the way out was, ‘I’m going to win with you or without you,’’ O’Brien added.
“Damn. I thought I was arrogant. That’s really arrogant,” Carlson responded.
The Submit and Carlson’s podcast each state O’Brien known as former Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who had simply left as Labor Secretary beneath Biden to take the job as head of the NHL gamers’ labor union, asking “Who does this (expletive) lady think she is?”
O’Brien advised the Herald Tuesday he has not argument with anybody earning profits, it’s the “attitude” that galls him.
“The Democratic party, as I was brought up to believe in Boston, was always the party of the blue-collar, grassroots, working class who fought hard,” he mentioned. “Let’s take care of them.”
As O’Brien advised the Herald proper after the November election, “there’s got to be a vision.”
The angst within the Democratic celebration after an election that swept President-elect Donald Trump again into the White Home — and with Republicans set to manage each chambers of Congress — is a stinging rebuke of the celebration of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, he added in mid-November.
“The Democrats need a reset. Nancy Pelosi needs to take a look in the mirror, and do it sooner than later,” O’Brien mentioned. “Good leaders look for a succession plan and that clearly wasn’t the thought process.”
O’Brien, who first joined the Teamsters at 18 in Charlestown, mentioned his Boston upbringing has him all the time looking for bipartisan options, however manipulation by entrenched media handlers and a Democratic celebration that had “no ground game” and stubbornly left “talent” on the sidelines, has uncovered a important “disconnect.”
He provided up the instance of his highly effective GOP conference tackle this summer season that he was able to ship on the DNC — that’s till enemies on the “far left” ripped him for being seen with Republicans. The Teamsters voted to not endorse on this presidential election.
The Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters has over 1.4 million energetic members and 500,000 retirees making it one of many largest unions on Earth. O’Brien is the no-nonsense head of that guild and a lifelong Democrat. However the value of groceries doesn’t escape him, he added, or looking for out like-minded worthy leaders.
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