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Teamsters across the country have been receiving mailers about the upcoming election, many of them featuring actual Teamster members explaining why they’re voting for Barack Obama this year. This past week, one of those fliers bore a face familiar to Local 384 members. The member featured in this one was none other than Local 384 Trustee/Business Agent Steve Gallagher (in case you haven’t seen it, click the picture below for a larger image).

As the inside of the flier states, Steve has been a loyal Republican all his life, but this year he can’t afford to continue that pattern. Neither can I. Neither can millions of other working Americans.

Barack Obama has the positions and policies that can actually help everyday people, while John McCain is pledging to extend the policies of the past eight years that have left regular people further and further behind. It doesn’t matter whether the issue is:

• taxes — where John McCain plans to give most of his tax cuts to the wealthiest, while Barack Obama plans to focus his tax relief on the majority of Americans who actually have to work for a living
• healthcare — where John McCain wants to eliminate coverage standards and employer based plans, while Barack Obama wants to take advantage of what already works and add to the mix of solutions
• other issues that directly affect working people like the Employee Free Choice Act — which McCain opposes, while Barack Obama has pledged to sign it into law

Barack Obama has put forth ideas that can better help working people and the middle class. A lifelong Republican like Steve Gallagher knows it. And so should every other regular American who understands today’s economic reality.

But in case not, here’s a short video to illustrate the point:

Visit TeamstersforObama.com. Go to the “Teamsters Speak” page to read more testimonials from actual Teamsters (including me), or you can add your own.

If you don’t already know the password for the Teamsters for Obama website, you can find it on the mailers bearing the website’s name, in recent issues of Teamster magazine, or follow the instructions on the login page to get the password.

Filed under: 2008 Presidential election, I.B.T., Rank-and-File, Teamsters Local 384, elections, politics, poverty and wealth, solidarity, unionism, video