A Possible Democratic Veep Pick Just Changed His Position On A Key Issue
A Possible Democratic Veep Pick Just Changed His Position On A Key Issue
The Arizona senator told HuffPost he would vote for the pro-labor legislation, voicing his commitment to unions as he's considered for the Democratic ticket.
Why not edit the title to be a little bit less clickbait?
Maybe something like:
Mark Kelly, A Possible Democratic Veep Pick, Just Changed His Position On Protecting the Right to Organize Act
Then someone would complain that I changed the title, which is against the rules. There's a picture of him, and the summary has his name.
Just a note that Rule 1 in the sidebar says "if your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive", so changing it is ok as long as it improves the information as the OP suggested. We're luckily not constrained by the terrible titles chosen by news sites to boost clicks.
I haven't seen a lot of people get upset about altered titles on Lemmy. I feel like there's a general understanding that an accurate title is better.
Some people cite the article's original headline in the text below the submitted link.
This is a criticism of HuffPo. And a very valid one.
It's more targeted at the lemming who posted this. Considering people can edit post titles and add additional text to a link post there's not really a risk in trying something more informative. They wouldn't need to delete their post or match some ultra rigid formatting.
I don't have any faith in Huffington Post (or several other news outlets) deviating from clickbait. In this situation someone might not recognize the name or act and assume it's irrelevant to them. I can see why they do it but I don't like it.
I'm not sure a change in public position in order to get a big promotion is really going to give the unions the warm fuzzies. It's better than not changing, but it sure feels like a "yeah sure, whatever" response rather than a newfound love of organized labor.
“Unions loom large in our life, and I’m supportive of the PRO Act,” Kelly said, recounting how when his mother, a police officer, was injured, her union helped her recover.
Good that his mother was helped to recover, but police unions are not generally considered part of organized labor.
Also, how's he going to vote for legislation in the Senate if he's VP? Unless Dems are willing to ditch the filibuster for this and let him exercise his ability to cast a tie breaker vote in a 50/50 situation this seems like evidence he's planning to remain a Senator.
A big sign it's him or he really wants it to be him.
I think it's him and I couldn't be happier with the pick.
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My next big donation will be with Harris announcing Kelly as her running-mate.
I don't think he'd change position if the VP pick wasn't all but guaranteed to him.
I think that settles that he'll be the VP pick for Harris.
Gross, this guy was anti-union too?
I dont think it's always that cut and dry. These acts have so many individual parts and shit snuck in them. While there can be a lot of good, there's also things that can be better or are frankly down right shit. So just becuase you vote no on something doesn't mean you don't want it - you could want it better.
I think he gets to choose who replaces him for two years - which is a big advantage to having him as a VP pick for the Democrats. I.e., no special election.
Then Governor of AZ does, but she's a Democratic.
“Why would the Democrats even consider a senator for the vice presidency if the senator doesn’t support the PRO Act?” John Samuelsen, president of the Transport Workers Union, told ABC News.
Why would so many union members vote for Trump? The world works in mysterious ways.
The Teamsters sit in those trucks all day long listening to talk radio.
Some of us listen to a lot of punk. I had a fellow Teamster one morning listening to Tucker Carlson so I started my Playlist with this and cranked it up: https://youtu.be/-MkRuV0aCcI?si=SSof6R6eOZOsEvXq
Just because you're a union member doesn't mean you're socially progressive too, a lot of these guys just don't like stuff like trans issues (which is why the right keeps talking about it even though trans people are like 1 in 1000 and while important for trans people themselves and their families, you'd be crazy to base your voting preferences on that issue alone).
In addition to that, there's immigration, which has been encouraged by the owner class as a way to break unions and undercut wages (not in a great replacement kind of way, more in the sense that H-1B visas tie residency to a single employer, and illegal immigrants are in an equally precarious situation they wouldn't risk unionising or even asking for improved conditions or a raise), democrats haven't really figured out how to properly talk about this either (the answer to that one is probably to go hard after employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants, maybe offer green cards to illegal immigrants that dob in their employers).
While he's completely disengenuous, Trump has been saying some things that sound right to union members about immigration and shipping jobs overseas, and he fooled enough of them in this way. If you live in an area that has been in decline for decades, Make America Great Again is a great slogan, and people can fill that in with whatever they imagine.
Cue a Sinema-like emerging for the special election.
There won't be one
I would rather not see him as a pick for VP, mostly because he is far to eager to use his wife as a political prop.