You can’t trust a thing Joe Biden says. He’s a career politician who will say anything to get elected. At his most recent town hall, he was caught telling another doozy; That boilermakers “overwhelmingly endorse me.” One boilermakers union which represents members in 3 states have in fact endorsed President Trump, and the international union has not endorsed anyone.
“The Boilermakers Local 154 union, which represents thousands of American workers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, is calling out Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden for lying about having been endorsed by the union.
At a televised town hall event this week, Biden made the false claim that the Boilermakers union “overwhelmingly” endorsed him, saying he “sat down with them” to discuss his energy plan in which he has said he will ban fracking.
As Breitbart News noted, the Boilermakers Local 154 union endorsed Trump, as they did in 2016, last month. Union leader John Hughes called out Biden for the lie in a press call on Saturday.
“The other day I’m watching the debate and I see Joe Biden tell everybody that the Boilermakers endorsed him and that is not true,” Hughes said. “And I would like somebody to tell me who — he said he talked to somebody — I’d like to know who he talked to in the Boilermakers because anybody I talk to did not endorse him.”
“And I believe if you go onto our International [Boilermakers] website we have not endorsed a candidate this round, nor did the International Boilermakers endorse a candidate last time,” Hughes continued. “We did not endorse Obama and Joe Biden last time because of their energy issues.”
Likewise, former Pennsylvania Congressman Lou Barletta said he was stunned when Biden lied about the union endorsement:
I couldn’t believe it when Joe Biden blatantly lied at a town hall right here in Pennsylvania and said he was overwhelmingly endorsed by the Boilermakers.
As a matter of fact, Boilermakers Local 154 endorsed President Donald Trump last month. And I knew this first-hand because I worked with John Hughes, the business manager, and Local 154 on that endorsement.
In the union endorsement of Trump, Hughes called the president “true friend of the Boilermakers.” Hughes said union members and their families “rely on coal-fired power generation,” which is at great odds with Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) energy plans that take cues from the Green New Deal to phase out all fossil fuels.
“Biden believes the Green New Deal is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face,” Biden’s campaign website reads.
The Green New Deal would have a devastating impact on working and middle-class American communities who rely on energy industry jobs.
Numbers provided to Breitbart News by Senate Energy Committee insiders shows that at least about one million energy jobs would be eliminated from the American economy as a result of the Green New Deal. This includes 712,300 jobs in mining, quarrying, and natural gas extraction and another 116,500 jobs in petroleum and coal products manufacturing.
Likewise, Biden’s plans to reenter the United States into the Paris Climate Accord would eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan. In Pennsylvania, alone, reentering the U.S. into the Paris Climate Accord could eliminate 140,000 jobs from the state.”
The International Boilermakers Union’s website lists a number of issues that they champion including buying American and fair trade. This is right up President Trump’s alley.
Regarding jobs, the site states:
“Buy American: In order to fully harness the economic benefits of U.S. defense spending and provide the highest quality products to our nation’s warfighters, the Boilermakers union strongly advocates for strengthening Buy American requirements for federal defense procurement. The Boilermakers union supports 100 percent U.S. content requirements on all U.S. defense procurement programs and the elimination of loopholes that reduce the effectiveness of domestic content requirements.
Job outsourcing: The Boilermakers union opposes the offshoring of jobs, especially to nations that have low wages and little to no rights for working people. Too many U.S. workers who have lost jobs due to outsourcing are still waiting for their jobs to return to America.”
Regarding fair trade the site states in part:
“International trade is a vital part of the U.S. economy. But, too often, powerful corporate interests have negotiated trade deals in secret; stacking the deck in their favor to increase profits for the biggest and most unscrupulous corporations at the expense of working people.”
With Trump’s work to bring American companies (jobs) back from overseas and his hardtack on international trade, I would say more boilermakers will be supporting him for reelection as opposed to Biden.
Excerpted in part from Breitbart News.
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