Nurses union drops Sestak, backs McGinty

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/capitolinq/Nurses-union-drops-Sestak-backs-McGinty.html

Jonathan Tamari
Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 12:59 PM


UPDATED below with comments from Sestak.

WASHINGTON – A nurse’s union endorsed Democrat Katie McGinty in the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race Wednesday – two years after first backing one of her party rivals, Joe Sestak.

The executive director of the union, the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, said Sestak had failed to support with the nurses, prompting them to pull their endorsement.

“We were just very disappointed in Joe Sestak in the fact that he steadfastly refused to stand publicly with nurses who were in a difficult situation,” said Bill Cruice, executive director of a union that represents around 5,500 nurses and hospital staff across the state, including about 3,500 in the Philadelphia area.

Cruice pointed to a Sept. 2014 rally at Crozer-Chester Medical Center when nurses there were on strike. Sestak, he said, declined to attend, though other public officials from both parties did so, he said. The union warned Sestak’s camp then that it could cost him their support, he said.

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