The Washington Times: Pro-Keystone union endorses Hillary Clinton, a pipeline opponent

Organized labor’s loudest Keystone XL pipeline supporter on Tuesday endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton for president in 2016, despite the fact the former secretary of state came out strongly against the pipeline project earlier this fall.

In a statement, the Laborers’ International Union of North America — which accused President Obama of selling out the middle class and acting “cowardly” when he rejected Keystone this month — said Mrs. Clinton is the strongest candidate in the race.

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Today, the Laborers’ International Union of North America became the latest labor union to endorse Hillary Clinton for president. In doing so, LiUNA’s union bosses turned their backs on the key issue their membership believes in: the Keystone XL pipeline,” the conservative PAC America Rising said in a statement. “But to Hillary Clinton, opposing Keystone was an opportunity to demonstrate how far left she is willing to go to win her Party’s nomination — even if that means opposing a commonsense, union-backed project that would have created new construction jobs.”

Obama administration research has found building the Keystone pipeline would have created more than 40,000 jobs.

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