Culinary Union says it has been 'viciously attacked' over flier criticizing 'Medicare for All'

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Washington (CNN)The influential Culinary Union said on Wednesday it has been "viciously attacked" after it distributed a flier criticizing Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for All" plan.

Culinary Union spokeswoman Bethany Khan told CNN the organization has taken hits all day Wednesday on Twitter for the "Medicare for All" position, with some staffers receiving direct messages. Khan also said some critics have called the union's phone lines and left messages attacking them for opposing the health care plan.
The group blamed the criticism on Sanders supporters, though it was not immediately clear whether the people lobbing the attacks all backed the Vermont senator.

"It's disappointing that Senator Sanders' supporters have viciously attacked the Culinary Union and working families in Nevada simply because our union has provided facts on what certain healthcare proposals might do to take away the system of care we have built over 8 decades," said Geoconda Argüello-Kline, secretary and treasurer of Culinary Workers Union Local 226, in a statement on Wednesday.

The flier, obtained by CNN on Tuesday, outlines where the leading 2020 Democratic candidates stand on health care, immigration and "Good Jobs." It singles out Sanders as the candidate who will end the union's health care among the top six Democratic candidates, pointing to his "Medicare for All" plan.




https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/politics/culinary-union-flier-criticism/index.html

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1. The Culinary Union's Tweet..

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2. Fake News. Berners are sweetness and light.

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7. Yep

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3. KR

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4. I will guarantee no "Establishment Democrats" took part in any of those attacks.nt

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5. For this thread

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6. sanders supporters are doxxing again

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8. So now there's a war on unions?!

Carville was right! Have we lost our damn minds? This is the stupidest, unnecessary attack on working Democrats.

So glad to see Democrats fighting back—finally!

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9. Plus, what a joke that this M4all never considered unions.

What else have they missed about that plan. We’ve wondered for years how Sanders touts his plan without obvious things like union benefits even being considered.

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10. sanders supporters have been busy

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11. K&R

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12. There is a pattern

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13. Biden calls on Sanders to take accountability for supporters' threats

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Joe Biden called on Bernie Sanders to accept greater accountability for tactics and rhetoric of his staunchest supporters and do more to discourage it, after what he called the “outrageous” threats on a prominent union that criticized his healthcare plan.

Representatives of the powerful Culinary Workers Union, which represents 60,000 workers supporting Nevada’s gaming and hospitality industries, said this week that supporters of the Vermont senator had “viciously attacked” its members after its leadership warned about the risk to their negotiated health plans under a Medicare for All system.

In an exclusive interview airing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Biden said the Vermont senator “may not be responsible for it, but he has some accountability.”

“You know me well enough to know if any of my supporters did that, I’d disown them. Flat disown them,” Biden said. “The stuff that was said online. The way they threatened these two women who are leaders in that Culinary union. It is outrageous. Just — just go online.”

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14. Good on Biden.. it needs to be exposed.

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15. I have to watch Meet the Press tomorrow

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16. Biden is absolutely Correct!

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18. And this is what Biden is calling out!