The huge AFSCME public employees union will endorse Hillary Clinton late next week, reports Howard Fineman for MSNBC:
Not that Sen. Hillary Clinton is expecting a crisis at the upcoming MSNBC Democratic debate in Philadelphia, but, just in case she has a bad night she has a pick-me-up scheduled for later next week: an endorsement from the 1.4 million-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.I'm told by labor sources that the endorsement will come next Thursday after a series of AFSCME committee meetings. The union, whose members by definition are no strangers to politics, has 30,000 members in the crucial caucus state of Iowa, plus 90,000 in Michigan and 110,000 in Florida - two other "early" states in the nomination process.
And so the Clinton Family Machine grinds on. The president of AFSCME, Gerald McEntee, goes back a long way with the Clintons, to the early stages of the 1992 presidential campaign.
Read the rest at the above link. Hillary is nailing the lid shut on Obama and Edwards before Halloween.
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